Events

We celebrated our students’ success with our ISTD Student Merit Award Ceremony filled with applause and proud smiles.

Human-centered AI Series – This round table brings together experts in AI, urban studies, ethics, public policy, and design to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and ensure that future smart cities remain human-centered, inclusive, and sustainable.

This talk will identify trends in contemporary Muslim societies in Southeast Asia, focusing primarily on Indonesia and Malaysia. Drawing on two and a half decades of studying political Islam in the region, the talk will explore the prevailing schools of thought in the study of Islamism in the region and what scholars have identified as the “conservative turn” in Muslim socioreligious mobilization, examine these developments against larger transnational sources of Islamist activism, and discuss how and why these dynamics have resonated with and empowered political Islam in the region in the last four decades.

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.

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.

How can we make better decisions in climate-sensitive domains like health and urban design, when the data we rely on is noisy and uncertain?

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.

The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead of a unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance and financialization, pervasive state roles in state capitalism, and post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends.

Our Autonomous Race Car Challenge is BACK! Do join our students from 50.047 Mobile Robotics Course as they showcase their fundamental algorithm design and programming skills in this challenge!

ISTD COIL Seminar by Kumaran Ramachandran – Gain a clearer perspective on current trends, future opportunities, and how you can play a meaningful role in the next chapter of telecom.