Research highlights

Assistant Professor Nilanjan Raghunath's paper has won the Best Conference Paper Award (in Design Education) at IDETC-CIE 2025
The paper integrates transdisciplinary social science insights with statistics to uncover what fuels innovation and entrepreneurship in Gen Z.


Tsinghua University (Academy of Arts and Design) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) HASS sign MOU
Tsinghua University (Academy of Arts and Design) and Singapore University of Technology and Design’s Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Cluster (HASS) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for academic cooperation on 11 Dec 2024, fostering collaboration in strategic areas of mutual interest, such as education, healthcare, analytics, design and AI.


Rethinking Fairness in Modern Automated Speech Recognition Systems
What is a literary history of speech-to-text technology? This book project examines how American literary artists historically rendered folk speech into text while negotiating issues of race, gender, class, disability status, and national origin.


Robots Among Us
What should a robot do when a child asks it to accompany them to the toilet? Or when a stranger approaches, asking to listen in on a story being read to a child?


Professor Yow Wei Quin’s article has been published as a FirstView article in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
The open access journal by Cambridge University Press features research involving all languages.


Dr Pang Yang Huei’s essays published on the Journal of Social Studies and History Education and, The Middle Ground Journal
Dr Pang’s essays on Asian history from an educator’s point of view have been recently published on notable peer-reviewed online journals.

Assistant Professor Nilanjan Raghunath to lead new AI-driven initiative at The John Hopkins Center on Global Poverty
This new initiative will use AI as an economic empowerment asset to combat global poverty.

Dr Lorenz Hegel has been nominated as a Research Fellow at the ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies
Titled “In Search of Revolution: Transnational Militant Documentary Practice in the Long Sixties,” the project maps networks of exchange and collaboration among documentary filmmakers in the long sixties.


Dr. Jin Murakami to lead a $386,800 MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 2 Study on Green Urbanism Plus Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
This research aims to provide scientific evidence on both the positive and negative effects of combining green urbanism solutions with Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) principles.


HASS Assistant Professor Nilanjan Raghunath has been invited as inaugural expert member and grantee by The Global Community for Women’s Leadership (GCWL)
GCWL is a first-of-its-kind initiative that leverages IIE’s unique position at the forefront of international education and exchange to support the advancement and retention of women in professional leadership positions worldwide.
