Events
Evolution of programming languages in the age of AI
ISTD COIL Seminar by Lee Chee Yong – This session provides a grounded, architect’s perspective on the strengths of different programming languages across various modern use cases-from embedded firmware, systems programming to distributed cloud services, from data-centric workloads to enterprise automation.
ISTD Design Exhibition 2026
We’re excited to invite you to the annual ISTD Design Exhibition 2026 – a showcase of innovation, creativity, and engineering brilliance by our Sophomore CSD students!
Gen AI, agentic AI, and the new technical reality for data scientists
ISTD COIL Seminar by Carlos Queiroz – This is not a talk about hype. It is about what is changing technically, what skills are becoming more valuable, and how students should adapt.
Beyond the model: Building real-world computer vision at Grab
ISTD COIL Seminar by Sriram Iyer – This talk will trace the journey through Grab’s evolution in computer vision, powering map-making to OCR and
multimodal content moderation for platform safety.
ISTD Industry Engagement Day 2026
Join us for an exciting afternoon of networking, career insights, and opportunities — organised exclusively for ISTD/CSD students.
Shaping inductive bias in foundation models: A signal-centric perspective on reasoning and learning dynamics
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Jiaxi Li – Foundation models have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, yet their behaviours can vary substantially depending on how learning signals are constructed and exposed during training.
The erosion & rebirth of quality
ISTD COIL Seminar by Todd Pasley – This talk explores a startling dissonance: while our technology has leaped into the future, the Quality mindset of organisations today is often still anchored in a 1960s manufacturing model.
Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs) 101
ISTD COIL Seminar by Lee Kuan Yong – Join Dell Technologies’ AI Innovation Hub as they take you through a practical deep dive into how modern Generative AI and LLMs really work.
Mobile application security sharing
ISTD COIL Seminar by Ryan Kwok – This session will provide an overview of key security considerations in mobile app development, common risks and vulnerabilities, and how we should think about cybersecurity in the mobile context.
Designing human-AI communications for observability, predictability, and (re)directability
ISTD Research Talk by Lewis Chuang – In this talk, Prof Lewis Chuang will share previous and ongoing research focused on designing interfaces for supporting communications and mutual awareness between human operators and automated systems.
