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A simple thank youthats all I need says artist who surprises strangers with portraits
‘A simple thank you…that’s all I need,’ says artist who surprises strangers with portraits
30 March 2025

SUTD alumnus Jeff Lai (DAI, Class of 2024) – aka playingwithpencil on Instagram and jeffandpencil on TikTok, shares his journey to earning viral fame on social media by sketching strangers in public places.

SMU and SUTD Deploy Drone and AI-Driven Analytics to Improve Performance of National Swimmers
SMU and SUTD Deploy Drone and AI-Driven Analytics to Improve Performance of National Swimmers
04 March 2025

Singapore’s national swim team will get a new and improved “coach” – powered by artificial intelligence and leveraging drone technology. The system helps coaches
analyse their swimmers’ performance, including stroke duration, swimming velocity,
and the symmetry of the swimmer’s moving body, in real-time.

SUTD Staff and Students Work Together With Smart AI-Powered Robots in Beach Clean-Up
SUTD Staff and Students Work Together With Smart AI-Powered Robots in Beach Clean-Up
22 January 2025

Four smart robots from SUTD made their way to Pasir Ris Park today to help their human teammates clean the beach – together with Guest-of-Honour, Mr Baey Yam Keng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (SPS) for the Minister of Sustainability and the Environment as well as the Ministry of Transport, and the SUTD community comprising students, faculty and staff.

SUTD Pivots Towards Artificial Intelligence With 50M Investment Becoming Worlds First Design AI University
SUTD Pivots Towards Artificial Intelligence With $50M Investment, Becoming World’s First Design AI University
16 January 2025

SUTD’s pivot to AI is premised on the principle that AI should no longer be viewed as a technological tool to be used by humans, but as part of a human-machine team, working together hand-in-hand and leveraging on each other’s strengths to find innovative solutions for real-world problems.

Southeast Asia voters grapple with explosion of AI images
Southeast Asia voters grapple with explosion of AI images
30 December 2024

Assistant Prof Roy Lee was quoted in this article which shines a spotlight of how AI, social media, and electoral politics have become enmeshed.

More convincing scams fake nudes The stakes are getting higher in the war against deepfake abuse
More convincing scams, fake nudes: The stakes are getting higher in the war against deepfake abuse
20 December 2024

Individuals, businesses and governments will all have to change the way they interact with video conferencing calls, images and more, as nefarious actors abuse the technology that is generating increasingly realistic content.

What can you do if you are the target of deepfake nudes
What can you do if you are the target of deepfake nudes?
04 December 2024

Experts say the best thing you can do is document the evidence, report the content to platforms and the authorities, and seek help from trusted adults and non-profit groups.

SingHealth signs MOU with two universities to develop white paper on population health
SingHealth signs MOU with two universities to develop white paper on population health
28 November 2024

Singapore Health Services Group collaborates with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) to develop a white paper on population health to help seniors improve their quality of life and maintain physical and mental health.

An innovative no-code prototype to automate design structure matrix generation
An innovative no-code prototype to automate design structure matrix generation
22 November 2024

An SUTD researcher has developed a promising automated workflow that leverages a large language model to generate a design structure matrix in less than five minutes.

Design Science & Engineering
AI Sampling Singapore project wins Architectural Design - Speculative and Visionary award at BLT Built Design Awards 2024
‘AI Sampling Singapore’ project wins Architectural Design – Speculative and Visionary award at BLT Built Design Awards 2024
08 November 2024

The project, by Assistant Professor Immanuel Koh, explores the design agency of deep generative neural networks in learning architectural notions of three-dimensional exteriority and interiority with a redesigned 3D generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) architecture.