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For discovering three security flaws in Qualcomm chips, SUTD researcher received over $10,000
Students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design discovered three security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s 5G chips, which may disable the 5G network services of about 60% of the world’s mobile phones.
New local AI music generation model produces “first draft” for composers in one minute
The first “controllable text prompt” AI music generation model has been developed locally. The software called Mustango was developed by a six-person research team led by Soujanya Poria and Dorien Herremans, two assistant professors at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
A novel framework for smooth avatar-user synchronization in the metaverse
Assistant Professor Xiong Zehui and his collaborators from NTU and GDUT proposed a novel framework to optimize resource allocation in metaverse service providers, with the overall aim of ensuring a smooth and immersive experience for all users.
Meet TinyLlama: The 550MB AI Model Trained on 3 Trillion Tokens
The TinyLlama project, by researchers from the StatNLP Research Group at SUTD, is trying to pre-train a 1.1 billion Llama model on a whopping three trillion tokens. This model takes up only 550MB of RAM.
Keeping the backdoor secure in your robust machine learning model
In the study ‘Towards backdoor attacks and defense in robust machine learning models’ Assistant Prof Sudipta Chattopadhyay and fellow SUTD researchers studied how to inject and defend against backdoor attacks for robust models in a certain ML component called image classifiers.
Six SUTD Faculty, Alumni and Student in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2023
Six SUTD faculty, alumni and student join the 300 outstanding young trailblazers of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2023.
TikTok bans: will Asia follow West’s lead as US turns the screws on China-linked app?
Assistant Professor Roy Lee (Information Systems Technology and Design) shares his expert opinion on the topic.
Singapore government officers can only use TikTok on issued devices on a ‘need-to basis’: Smart Nation
This is an existing policy that mandates only approved apps can be downloaded on government-issued devices, said the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group.
Researchers develop new strategies to teach computers to learn like humans do
To implement continual learning in edge computing systems, the new type of brain-inspired replay code designed by SUTD researchers provides a promising solution
New Methods Could Improve Security Of Two-Factor Authentication Systems
Researchers have designed mechanisms to counter the vulnerabilities in push-notification based systems.
