Annabelle Kwok greets people, even those she has never met before, with a warm hug. Disarming and highly energetic, it does not take long to see why the founder and CEO of artificial intelligence start-up Neuralbay is Singapore’s poster child for technology.
The 26-year-old recipient of this year’s Her World Young Woman Achiever award is a self-taught hardware and software engineer with two AI companies to her name. Every bit your 21st-century multi-hyphenate, she has a taekwondo black belt and is a licensed windsurfer and avid runner. To fit it all in, Kwok, a mathematics major from Nanyang Technological University, adopts a system she calls “energy management, not time management”.
“If I am not tired, I’ll just keep going. After I run and return feeling energised, I will chiong work because I am in the zone,” she says. (“Chiong” is the Singlish term for immersing oneself in a task.)
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