Events
Going beyond pretraining: recent advances, applications and future directions for test-time compute and RL
ISTD COIL Seminar by Bill Cai – This talk explores how techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning, self-consistency, and iterative refinement unlock new capabilities by investing compute during inference rather than training alone.
IEEE MRS 2025
The IEEE MRS 2025 will be held on 4-5 Dec 2025 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Think. Play. Design – turning ideas into meaningful game art
ISTD COIL Seminar by Fernanders Koak – In this 45-minute session, Lead Concept Artist Fernanders Koak will introduce the fundamentals of Design Thinking from identifying player needs, defining problems, and ideating gameplay mechanics, to rapid prototyping and creative iteration.
Workshop on Emerging AI Technologies for Music (EAIM 2026)
The Audio, Music, and AI (AMAAI) Lab at ISTD proudly presents its inaugural workshop on Emerging AI Technologies for Music (EAIM 2026), to be held as part of the AAAI-26 Conference at Singapore EXPO from 26 to 27 January 2026.