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SUTD’s Create4Good Innovation Grant support entrepreneurs whose work aims to reduce inequality in society. Some projects that received support from this grant are featured in this article.

Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng and Assistant Professor Immanuel Koh discuss the complexity of noise disputes and the cocktail of solutions from preventive design to clearer community norms and greater engagement that could help address these situations.

The tools are available to the university’s 170 faculty and 3,000 students through a new online platform set up by the university, called the SUTD Large Language Model (LLM) Gateway.

Professor Yow Wei Quin shares that language is not something one first masters and then begin using; rather it is something that we gradually become proficient in through repeated, authentic interactions.

In this commentary by LKYCIC’s Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng, he writes about how Singapore’s transport debate should now centre more on people instead of cars. The question cannot stop at who gets to own a car; one must also ask how public transport, point-to-point services and shared cars can provide reliable mobility across different stages of life, without turning every need for flexibility into a need for car ownership.

In this op-ed, EPD Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara, Academic Director of Innovation PG at SUTD, discusses and shares his views on “When does an impressive robot become a useful one?”.

SUTD Professor Ashraf Kassim, Associate Provost for Education and Innovation, shared that not using AI detector tools is consistent with how the university uses AI in coursework: “Rather than treating AI as an adverse tool to be detected and isolated, we design our courses and curriculum to embed AI tools into the learning process itself.”

She started by painting the pickguard of an old bass guitar she bought on Carousell. Today, EPD alumna Julia Becker’s business ThreeStools has gone viral, attracted customers around the world and built up a two-month waitlist for custom orders.

As AI reshapes workplace demands, digital and AI capabilities are increasingly regarded as essential skills. SUTD Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Design & AI Officer Mr Poon King Wang encouraged workers to move beyond simply using AI and become “AI creators” who use it to create value that sets them apart.

At a RICE community event held in conjunction with the Land Transport Authority (LTA), LKYCIC Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng shared how public transport journeys shape Singaporeans’ experiences and memories of growing up.