Events

ISTD COIL Seminar by Rohit Bansal – In this session, the speaker draws on two decades of experience at the intersection of technology and global finance to offer students an industry-first perspective on how emerging technologies are transforming the financial landscape.

ISTD Seminar by Fang Guoxin – Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing (MAAM) is revolutionising 3D printing by enabling non-planar material deposition in true three-dimensional space.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Yeo Shun Yi – In this dissertation, PhD candidate Yeo Shun Yi will examine how reflection can be systematically supported through interface interventions to enhance the deliberative quality of user contributions.

As cities confront climate change, urbanisation, and environmental degradation, sustainable development is increasingly urgent. Landscape performance, which evaluates how outdoor spaces function socially, environmentally, and economically, offers a valuable framework for building resilient, equitable, and livable cities. Grounded in ecosystem services science, it enables planners, designers, and policymakers to make informed decisions based on measurable outcomes rather than aesthetics or tradition. This presentation examines three case studies from the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation Program, where researchers, practitioners, users, and stakeholders assess long-term design impacts. Findings show how performance metrics inform planning—enhancing biodiversity, reducing runoff, and improving health and walkability—while also guiding integration into education and practice to promote environmental and community well-being.

Synopsis
Discussions on AI veer from comfort in its promises of abundance for all human lives, to discomfort that we will abandon all that makes us human.
In this talk, we unpack this polarisation. We start with

ISTD COIL Seminar by Tan Jiaqi – In this talk, some of the techniques that cybersecurity practitioners and researchers use today, and how the cybersecurity research that is done at DSO National Laboratories help to keep critical computers and software systems in Singapore safe from cyber-attacks will be shared.

ESD Distinguished Speaker Seminar by Thomas Magnanti – Hear how the founding president of SUTD designed our academic programmes and the approaches and culture that have guided him throughout these initiatives.

ISTD Seminar by Wang Dongxia – This talk presents our recent efforts to bridge gaps, ranging from human-aligned LLM safety/over-safety evaluation and enhancement, region-aware AI social value study, mechanism reliability investigation to downstream industrial applications, collectively advancing trustworthy deployable LLM-centric AI.

There will be two talks during this seminar by speakers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and University of Sussex. Refreshments will be provided, so do register!

As Asia experiences rapid urbanization – home to over half of the world’s megacities and projected to account for 40% of global smart city investment by 2025 – governments and businesses are increasingly turning to smart city solutions to manage growth. These technologies offer opportunities to improve urban services but also raise important  concerns, including