‘The real game-changer has been the iterative dialogues with AI – you need to learn how to talk, interact and transfer information,’ says Associate Professor Carlos Bañon, about advances in AI-image generation.

Zheng Kai, an Architecture and Sustainable Design lecturer at SUTD, highlighted that as a community that is still traditional, it may be difficult to accept the presence of Western dragons in Chinese New Year decorations, but perceptions are dynamic and will evolve over time.

SUTD’s director of admissions, Mr Jonathan Kua, says all shortlisted students need to attend a 30-minute one-on-one interview that he refers to as a conversation. It is an opportunity for the university officials to figure out if the student is the right fit for the university; similarly an opportunity for the student to understand what SUTD can offer and if it suits him or her.

According to MOE, over the last few years, one in three fresh polytechnic graduates matriculated into autonomous universities — namely NUS, NTU, SMU, SUSS, SIT and SUTD.

CNA's The Big Spark is a new business reality show featuring 24 startups from Southeast Asia. Snap Robotics' co-founder Saikrishna Dontu, a Research Associate at SUTD, shares how his product can transform the landscape of grasping automation through the development of technology akin to human hands.

In Singapore's Chinatown, the dragon centrepiece crafted by SUTD students showcases a unique interpretation with four claws—three in the front and one at the rear—providing a modern twist to the traditional five claws.

With the theme Soaring Into The Auspicious Dragon Year, the festive lights at Chinatown include the dragon centre piece designed by 13 SUTD students.

A team led by Associate Professor Lu Wei, Associate Head (Research), Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, launched the AI model "TinyLlama", an open-source small language model with 1.1 billion parameters, and pre-trained with 3 trillion tokens.

Soujanya Poria is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He has co-authored more than 150 papers, published in top-tier conferences and journals.