Events
Towards generalisable intelligence: From pre-training to chain-of-thought and interventional exploration
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Wang Tianduo – This thesis studies how large language models (LLMs) generalise under distribution shift.
From Water Sensitive Urban Design to Water Sensitive Communities: Insights from Singapore, Seoul and Zurich
Nature-based solutions require community stewardship to thrive. Discover key insights on water-sensitive urban design in Singapore, Seoul, and Zurich.
Redesigning Work in the Era of AI and Automation: A Skills-First, Human-Centric Approach
Grounded in extensive organisational practices, this session introduces a structured, human-centric, and skills-first approach to identify how functional tasks can be automated, augmented, or reorganised, and how jobs can be reconstructed into higher-value, future-ready roles.
Metropolitan Dharma: Buddhism in Global-City Singapore
This talk traces the historical development and contemporary transformations of the Buddhist community in Singapore. Beginning in the nineteenth century, it examines how waves of migration from China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia produced a diverse Buddhist landscape encompassing Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna traditions in a colonial port city.
Relaxed joint chance constraints with surrogate tail bounds
ESD Research Seminar by Arjun Ramachandra – Many applications in power systems, supply chains, and transportation involve uncertain outcomes and optimisation decisions over multiple time periods while requiring high reliability. Joint chance constraints (JCC) enforce strict reliability but are overly conservative, while single chance constraints (SCC) offer flexibility at the cost of performance.
Does the System Care? Accessibility, AI and the Difference Between Technical Compliance and Relational Safety
Accessibility systems worldwide are evaluated on compliance: does the ramp exist, does the lift work, is the route barrier-free? But compliance and care are not the same thing. This talk draws on fieldwork in Singapore to examine accessibility as a relational problem, not just an infrastructure one, and asks what happens when we apply this lens to AI.
Unlock the power of modern AI & gen AI with AI engineering
ISTD COIL Seminar by Eugene Swee – Join Dell Technologies’ AI Innovation Hub as they take you through a practical overview of how AI engineering brings out the value of modern AI and generative AI.
Operationalising AI in healthcare: Predictive models, agentic systems and MLOps
ISTD COIL Seminar by Goh Han Leong – This session provides a comprehensive overview of how data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence are transforming healthcare delivery.
Agentic AI observability and control: A hands-on bootcamp
ISTD COIL Seminar by Matthias Chin – In this workshop, attendees will learn about the importance of having visibility and control over their agentic Al applications.
MongoDB practical experience sharing – From beginner to production-level applications
ISTD COIL Seminar by Xiaochun He and Longfei Lv – This course provides hands-on MongoDB experience, spanning from core fundamentals to
enterprise-level implementation strategies.
