Events

Master of Architecture Lecture series 2022 – ‘Design beyond Zero’
Design beyond Zero forms all kind of technical and focused themes. Looking beyond the SGP Green Plan goal of net zero carbon emissions toward a Singapore that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.


Jason Altschuler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?


Conversations in Design, Technology, and Society with Dr. Adam Drazin and Dr. Pauline Garvey
Conversations in Design, Technology, and Society with Dr. Adam Drazin and Dr. Pauline Garvey

Dong Yanfei (PayPal) – Topics in Graph Neural Networks
In the first part of the lecture, we will look at two limitations of MPNNs. We will also briefly share various graph-structured data in PayPal and some of the applications in the second part of the lecture.
James Gan, Le Yi and Kelvin Heng (Gojek) – Gojek’s Causal Inference Based Spending Engine & A Machine Learning Optimal Pricing
In this presentation, we will cover the applications of SOTA algorithm, HICI and GANITE to the Demand Generation Team in Gojek, as well as look at the general theory behind two approaches we have used at Gojek – contextual bandits and causal inference models.
David Khoo (IMDA) – Singapore’s 5G Industry Transformation Programme
We will look at 5G being the catalyst for industry transformation and how this can enable Singapore to become an innovator within the global digital economy. Development of 5G use cases across each of the following sectors will be elaborated.
Vitaly Kamluk (Kaspersky Lab) – Botnets as a Threat to Your Network
This talk focuses on a botnet problem for network security teams. It covers the history of botnets as a phenomena, explains botnets classification, factors of growth, ways to use that in cyber-extortion, political, criminal financial operations among others.

Mr. Jay Jenkins (Google Cloud business, APAC) – Data-driven Transformation
Mr. Jay Jenkins (Google Cloud business, APAC) – Data-driven Transformation

Dogs vs. Cats – Create an AI algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats – Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD)
In this workshop, we will be giving a brief historic overview of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, along with some of the current-day applications and challenges that we AI researchers are currently facing.