Events
Watch out for the safety-threatening actors: mitigating risk by quantifying change in escape routes
ISTD Seminar by Zbigniew Kalbarczyk – The challenge of ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs, also called ego actors) in real-world scenarios where AVs constantly interact with other actors will be addressed in this seminar.
Design for growth
Dialogues with Leaders by Liu Hanmo – This lecture introduce students to the principles of the growth hacker model and the importance of data-driven thinking in modern product design.
Functional programming with Clojure in the wild
ISTD COIL Seminar by Zachary Teo – Once considered a niche, Functional Programming (FP) has been gaining increased popularity due to the evolving needs of software systems, such as scalability and concurrency.
Network optimization and platform pricing in coupled energy and transportation systems
ESD Research Seminar by Ding Yanyan – This study examines shared electric vehicles (SEVs) providing transport and discharging services via a ride-sourcing platform.
Theatre in the City: The Role of the Arts in Urban Communities
In this talk, Cheng Nien Yuan draws from her research on two eminent theatre companies in Singapore to consider the role of theatre and performance in promoting urban live-ability and love-ability.
Human in the loop automation: ride-hailing with remote (tele-) drivers
ESD Research Seminar by Xiaotang Yang – Using a spatial queueing model that captures the dynamics of pick up and trip times, this seminar will show that when workload is sufficiently high (relative to the number of vehicles), perhaps surprisingly, reducing the number of drivers relative to the number of vehicles can improve service level.
Young children’s social cognition and learning in an increasingly technological world
HASS Talk by Dr Tamar Kushnir – The talk will discuss the implications of early learning with technology, and possible generational changes that may have lasting effects as our modern children become adults.
Integrating EV charging and discharging into power grid through bilateral negotiation
ESD Research Seminar by Yun Fong Lim – To deal with demand uncertainty on a power grid, a power plant with limited ramping capability can collaborate with an electric vehicle (EV) company. With proper charging and discharging prices, the EV company voluntarily withdraws electricity from or returns electricity to the power grid in suitable phases.
HASS Talk – Marco Polo and the Heresy of Evil (By Paolo Visigalli from Shanghai Normal University)
This talk will closely examine the unique episode describing the Polos’ encounter with the Fuzhou ‘Christians’.
Guided cooperation for multi-agent teams
ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Pamela Wang – The thesis will study various degrees of centralisation in cooperation mechanisms, spanning from fully centralised planning-based approaches to fully decentralised communicating agents.
