Events
Dialogues with Leaders: Networking with Experts in Human-Centred Design
Dialogues with Leaders by Vishnu Hari – Vishnu will be sharing on his career path leading up to the founding of ego AI.
Smart EV charging management in modern power systems: the transition from loads to grid assets
ESD Research Seminar by Can Berk Saner (aka John) – This talk examines accommodating large-scale EV penetration by managing charging and converting EVs from demanding loads into useful grid assets.
Befriending the quantum computing disruption: lessons from double-bracket quantum algorithms
ESD Research Seminar by Marek Gluza – Dr Marek Gluza will explore what is likely to make up the disruption caused by quantum computing, how it will come about and when (or actually whether) it will happen.
Think. Play. Design – turning ideas into meaningful game art
ISTD COIL Seminar by Fernanders Koak – In this 45-minute session, Lead Concept Artist Fernanders Koak will introduce the fundamentals of Design Thinking from identifying player needs, defining problems, and ideating gameplay mechanics, to rapid prototyping and creative iteration.
IEEE MRS 2025
The IEEE MRS 2025 will be held on 4-5 Dec 2025 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Where, what, how: Geometry, semantics and affordances for robotic mobile manipulation
ISTD COIL Seminar by Jen Jen Chung – This talk will discuss the tight connections between perception, planning and learning for robot grasping and nonprehensile interaction with articulated objects.
Going beyond pretraining: recent advances, applications and future directions for test-time compute and RL
ISTD COIL Seminar by Bill Cai – This talk explores how techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning, self-consistency, and iterative refinement unlock new capabilities by investing compute during inference rather than training alone.
The PM's UX dilemmas: what happens when good design meets the real world
ISTD COIL Seminar by Thenmugilan Gandhy – This talk is about the decisions that don’t make it into design case studies.
From one-way mirrors to AI agents: 10 lessons from the field
ISTD COIL Seminar by Emily Cheung – In this session, Emily will share 10 lessons from her journey – from observing users behind one-way mirrors to designing AI-powered ventures.
Beyond worst-case: the rise of learning-augmented online algorithms
ESD Research Seminar by Themis Gouleakis – Online algorithms are traditionally analysed in adversarial worst-case settings, leading to guarantees that often fail to capture practical performance. The emerging framework of learning-augmented algorithms integrates machine-learned predictions into online decision making while preserving rigorous guarantees.
