Viola AI, AI Singapore, and SMU announced a strategic partnership to help revolutionalise the match-making industry using a robust AI matching recommendation engine that leverages on Lunch Actually Group’s existing model. As part of this collaboration, SMU will conduct a research project to feed data to the personality match engine model that incorporates thorough review on spouse selection and family formation and lead the various focus groups and surveys on the sociology and technical aspects on matching.
SMU Professor of Sociology and Dean of Students Paulin Straughan, who is the Principal Investigator in the project, believed that the research will be essential in building AI matching and recommendations, and will help improve understanding of the needs of singles and couples.