Events
"Acclimations" Civic adaptation with climate changes
Join us for an evening with Dominique Cécile Jakob — award‑winning architect and co‑founder of the Paris‑based practice JAKOB+MACFARLANE.
A behavioural model for exploration vs exploitation: Theoretical framework and experimental evidence
ESD Research Seminar by Yifan Feng – How do people navigate the exploration-exploitation (EE) trade-off when making repeated choices with unknown rewards? We study this question through the lens of multi-armed bandit problems and introduce a novel behavioural model, Quantal Choice with Adaptive Reduction of Exploration (QCARE).
What can quantum AI learn from biological intelligence?
ESD Research Seminar by Thiparat Chotibut – Designing scalable quantum machine learning (QML) models with potential quantum advantage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices remains a major challenge.
ISTD Industry Engagement Day 2026
Join us for an exciting afternoon of networking, career insights, and opportunities — organised exclusively for ISTD/CSD students.
IDEAS Festival 2026 – Is A.I. Art the End of Human Creativity?
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the creative landscape, from music composition and literary fiction to visual art and design. But as the boundaries between machine and human creativity blur, we are compelled to ask: Can A.I. truly create art?
A brief history of weak dependencies
ESD Research Seminar by Paul Doukhan – More than a purely formal exposition, the aim is to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of each of the most commonly used concepts, depending on the intended purpose and the types of models involved.
Dialogues with Leaders: Networking with Experts in Human-Centred Design
Dialogues with Leaders by Arthur Lee – Arthur, Product Designer at GovTech Singapore, will be sharing on design in the age of AI.
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.
