Richard is a Lead Data Scientist at McLaren Applied (MA), currently leading technical development and supporting pre-sales activities in Asia Pacific region. With 15 years of experience on machine learning, data science, and nature-inspired computing, he has established skill versatility and thought leadership within both academia and industry. This spans condition and decision insight algorithms/platforms (within MA Engineering team), text and social media analytics (as a Research Scientist/Assistant Director at Singapore Management University (SMU)), and intelligent manufacturing systems (as a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)). He obtained Ph.D. and B.Eng. (First Class Honors) degrees in Computer Engineering from NTU in 2011 and 2004 respectively. Dr. Oentaryo is an avid researcher with 40 papers published in reputable international journal and conference venues. His works have received awards such as the DSM Sales Forecasting Challenge First Prize Winner 2013, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2011, and ITMA Gold Medal cum Book Prize 2004. He served as a Local Arrangement Chair at the 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and Program Chair at the 2012 Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).