Events

ISTD invites you to an afternoon of networking and tea to welcome you into the pillar!

The Audio, Music, and AI (AMAAI) Lab at ISTD proudly presents its inaugural workshop on Emerging AI Technologies for Music (EAIM 2026), to be held as part of the AAAI-26 Conference at Singapore EXPO from 26 to 27 January 2026.

Organised by the ISTD Pillar, this flagship event is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence. This year’s edition focused on the transition of AI from laboratory experimentation to resilient, autonomous systems that are ethically aligned and clinically impactful.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Dongrui Li – The dissertation investigates four AI accelerator design directions, each validated through tapeout prototypes. Spiking Neural Network (SNN) accelerators are explored with in network computing.

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.

The IEEE MRS 2025 will be held on 4-5 Dec 2025 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

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.

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.

ISTD COIL Seminar by Thenmugilan Gandhy – This talk is about the decisions that don’t make it into design case studies.

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.