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More than a quarter of SUTD faculty ranked top 2% of world’s best scientists for 2023
The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 220,000 researchers from across the globe, classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.

S’pore aims to be a trusted, neutral hub for collaboration in global AI race: Chan Chun Sing
Regarding the Government’s plans to grow the nation’s proficiency in AI, Mr Chan cited a discussion he had with SUTD – “I gave them a challenge: Can SUTD be an institution unique in the world where you can have the best of both the American and Chinese (AI) models working side by side?”

Team develops AI-powered tool to detect hate speech in Southeast Asian languages
Hate speech detection models are computational systems that can identify and classify online comments as hate speech. “These models are crucial in moderating online content and mitigating the spread of harmful speech, particularly on social media,” said Assistant Professor Roy Lee.

AI-powered tool to detect hate speech in Southeast Asian languages
SUTD researchers developed SGHateCheck, the first functional test specifically tailored to evaluate hate speech in the multilingual environments of Singapore and the broader Southeast Asia.

First Temasek-SUTD Generative AI Hackathon Gives Rise to Enterprise-Ready Digital Solutions
Fifty-nine students from SUTD spent five days in March collaborating with various Temasek employees to find solutions for 19 problem statements posed by the global investment company.


SUTD designs a smart navigation system that uses shoeprints to help seniors find their way around the hospital
What can help seniors if they get lost in the hospital and miss their medical appointment? Students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have designed a smart indoor navigation system that uses a person’s unique shoe print to guide them. The navigation system, named “Glowing Guide”, is a final-year Capstone project completed by a team of seven fourth-year students from SUTD under the mentorship of Alexandra Hospital.


SUTD Breaks New Ground With New Design Accredited Degrees
Every single SUTD graduate from our undergraduate degree programmes is now recognised as being “design-trained”. This marks the first time all degrees in a university worldwide have been design accredited.

SUTD Researchers Develop First-of-its-kind Artificial Intelligence Model that Controls Music with Prompts
Dreaming of making your own music like Taylor Swift only you have no musical inclination at all? Fret not. Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed the first-of-its-kind music-domain-knowledge-inspired Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that generates music from text prompts.
One-Third of SUTD’s Faculty Ranked Top 2% of World’s Best Scientists
The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 210,000 researchers from across the globe.

DBS and SUTD signs Memorandum of Understanding
With the signing of the DBS x SUTD Memorandum of Understanding, our Design and Artificial Intelligence (DAI) programme students will benefit from AI application and design innovation-related internship opportunities at DBS, and work with DBS to solve real-world problem statements. The top Junior-year and Senior-year DAI students will also receive the DBS Awards of Excellence under this collaboration.
