Events
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.
Why We Don’t Do the Right Thing Even When We Know It
This seminar examines the gap between ethical recognition and ethical consistency. Drawing on familiar situations and everyday decision-making, it explores how individuals often negotiate themselves away from actions they already perceive as ethical or more responsible.
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.
Ideas Festival 2026 – Urban Resilience in 3 Acts
This SUTD-LKYCIC seminar explores Singapore’s urban resilience from three perspectives: economic resilience, social cohesion and climate change adaptation.
IDEAS Festival 2026 – Designing for Resilience
The HASS cluster is excited to invite you to a featured session at this year’s IDEAS Festival 2026, a nationwide showcase of cutting-edge insights from humanities and social science research on the theme of “resilience”.
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.
From applications to structure and back
ESD Research Seminar by Antonio Frangioni – Professor Antonio Frangioni will summarise some of the main lines of his research in this seminar, emphasising how he is primarily driven by the desire of solving real-world, difficult optimisation problems.
Shaping the future of connectivity – A telco veteran’s journey into digital communications
ISTD COIL Seminar by Heng Kwee Tong – In this inspiring session, the Chief Technology Officer of SPTel shares his three-decade journey through the rapid evolution of digital communications and the role young talent will play in shaping what comes next.
Beyond the prompt: Building the distributed infrastructure for trusted AI agents
ISTD COIL Seminar by Stevanus Satria – This talk explores how Consensus, Fault Tolerance, and Consistency are being reimagined through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to build governed Al agents.
