Events
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.
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”.
