The department congratulates Janson Seah, an NUS Economics alum, and Daryl Lim, an NUS Economics undergraduate, for making it onto Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia List 2022. The annual list honours the most forward-thinking changemakers and trailblazers under the age of 30, who are tackling important global issues and driving innovation in their respective fields.

Janson Seah (class of 2018) met Jeremy Hon, Lee Kai Yi and Eugene Ng through the NUS Overseas College programme. Together, they founded StaffAny, a workforce management solution helping SMEs optimise scheduling, consolidate timesheets, and boost labour productivity.

One of their most recent initiatives involves providing a free version of their product to small businesses.

Daryl Lim is an undergraduate student majoring in Economics. He is a co-founder, with Chong Voon Foo (NUS Engineering), of Augmentus, a no-code robotics platform that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any operator, even those with no robotic expertise or computer skills.

The team of 15 has formed partnerships with the world's largest robotic companies including ABB, Universal Robots and Nachi. Its clients include Fujitsu, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, ST Engineering, and A*STAR and others across the globe. Their company says over 60% of Augmentus users are non-technical operators with little robot experience.