Events
Software security: the good, the bad, and the ugly
ISTD COIL Seminar by Tan Jiaqi – In this talk, some of the techniques that cybersecurity practitioners and researchers use today, and how the cybersecurity research that is done at DSO National Laboratories help to keep critical computers and software systems in Singapore safe from cyber-attacks will be shared.
Reflections from an academic entrepreneur
ESD Distinguished Speaker Seminar by Thomas Magnanti – Hear how the founding president of SUTD designed our academic programmes and the approaches and culture that have guided him throughout these initiatives.
Towards trustworthy deployable LLM-centric AI systems
ISTD Seminar by Wang Dongxia – This talk presents our recent efforts to bridge gaps, ranging from human-aligned LLM safety/over-safety evaluation and enhancement, region-aware AI social value study, mechanism reliability investigation to downstream industrial applications, collectively advancing trustworthy deployable LLM-centric AI.
HASS Human-Centred AI Seminar
There will be two talks during this seminar by speakers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and University of Sussex. Refreshments will be provided, so do register!
Chinese maritime trading networks in Southeast Asia during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, 1567 – 1722
HASS Colloquium by Ryan Holroyd – This presentation will map the structure of Chinese maritime trade in Southeast Asia from about 1570, during the Ming dynasty. It will then compare this structure to the Chinese shipping network that was re-established after the Qing dynasty’s conquest of Taiwan and the legalisation of private maritime trade in 1684.
Software engineering in the age of generative artificial intelligence: challenges and opportunities
ISTD Seminar by Subhajit Datta – Software systems are everywhere. Over the past few decades, we have increasingly come to depend on these systems for our needs.
Data in the era of algorithms: looking beyond the obvious
ISTD Seminar by Subhajit Datta – We live in an era of algorithms. Our digital footprints let algorithms decide which doors will open for us, both literally and figuratively.
Reprogramming inequality: rethinking AI’s role in the fight against poverty
JHU Center on Global Poverty Speaker Series by Nilanjan Raghunath – This talk explores AI not merely as a set of tools, but as part of a broader system shaped by social, institutional, and ethical considerations.
Beyond benchmarks: measuring and strengthening generalisable reasoning in large language models
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Hong Pengfei – This thesis addresses critical questions surrounding the evaluation and enhancement of reasoning robustness, generalisability, and comprehensiveness in modern language models, particularly under realistic conditions involving noise, ambiguity, domain shifts, and multimodal inputs.
Towards expressive, robust and generalisable multimodal learning
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Wei Han – This thesis, aims to provide practical solutions towards basic issues such as high computational costs of multimodal learning, and giving practical solutions to each of them.
