Events
Evolution of programming languages in the age of AI
ISTD COIL Seminar by Lee Chee Yong – This session provides a grounded, architect’s perspective on the strengths of different programming languages across various modern use cases-from embedded firmware, systems programming to distributed cloud services, from data-centric workloads to enterprise automation.
Learning-augmented optimisation for transportation, supply chain, and service systems
ESD Research Seminar by Huang Yiduo – This talk introduces Postdoctoral Research Associate Huang Yiduo’s research programme at the intersection of optimisation, stochastic modelling, and data-driven methods for complex service and supply chain systems.
Stochastic dynamics in curbside operations: Pricing, facility design, and access control
ESD Research Seminar by Liu Xinyu, Cindy – This talk presents rigorous, practical frameworks using continuous-time Markov decision processes (MDPs) and game-theoretic queues.
Gen AI, agentic AI, and the new technical reality for data scientists
ISTD COIL Seminar by Carlos Queiroz – This is not a talk about hype. It is about what is changing technically, what skills are becoming more valuable, and how students should adapt.
"Acclimations" Civic adaptation with climate changes
Join us for an evening with Dominique Cécile Jakob — award‑winning architect and co‑founder of the Paris‑based practice JAKOB+MACFARLANE.
A behavioural model for exploration vs exploitation: Theoretical framework and experimental evidence
ESD Research Seminar by Yifan Feng – How do people navigate the exploration-exploitation (EE) trade-off when making repeated choices with unknown rewards? We study this question through the lens of multi-armed bandit problems and introduce a novel behavioural model, Quantal Choice with Adaptive Reduction of Exploration (QCARE).
What can quantum AI learn from biological intelligence?
ESD Research Seminar by Thiparat Chotibut – Designing scalable quantum machine learning (QML) models with potential quantum advantage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices remains a major challenge.
Beyond the model: Building real-world computer vision at Grab
ISTD COIL Seminar by Sriram Iyer – This talk will trace the journey through Grab’s evolution in computer vision, powering map-making to OCR and
multimodal content moderation for platform safety.
IDEAS Festival 2026 – Is A.I. Art the End of Human Creativity?
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the creative landscape, from music composition and literary fiction to visual art and design. But as the boundaries between machine and human creativity blur, we are compelled to ask: Can A.I. truly create art?
A brief history of weak dependencies
ESD Research Seminar by Paul Doukhan – More than a purely formal exposition, the aim is to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of each of the most commonly used concepts, depending on the intended purpose and the types of models involved.
