Events

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Loo Yi – How can AI agents and robots adapt to new human partners when collaborative data is limited? This thesis explores methods that help them learn preferences and work effectively with people across a range of tasks.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Yao Xiao – Adapting large language models to downstream tasks and to human preferences has become the dominant cost in the model development pipeline. This thesis argues that the binding constraint in adaptation is not the volume of parameters, data, or computation available, but the fraction of that budget which carries usable learning signal – and that this holds in both parameterisation and post-training data.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Zhengbo Zhang – Video content discovery and editing are two core tasks in computer vision. Discovery localises an object and its keypoints in each frame and tracks the object across frames, whereas editing modifies the discovered content according to the user’s intent. Deep learning has advanced both tasks and enabled their application in visual surveillance, content creation, and film production.

Join us for the inaugural Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) Symposium 2026 focuses on the future of the field and impact of emerging AI technologies on education.

ISTD COIL Seminar by Ng Hak Beng – This session will provide insights into security issues in the Linux environment, with a focus on rootkits.

ISTD COIL Seminar by Nicholas – As hardware grows more powerful and application density increases, optimising Linux-based environments requires more than default kernel and Kubernetes settings. This talk examines the need for careful tuning, fine-grained workload isolation, and specialised capabilities to prevent noisy-neighbour effects.

Organised by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the 2026 3rd International Conference on Edge Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing (ECPDC 2026) will be held in August, bringing together researchers, scholars, and industry experts to explore the latest advancements in edge computing, parallel computing, and distributed computing.

ISTD COIL Seminar by Vishesh Kumar – In this session, we explore AWS Kira – an agentic IDE that transforms natural-language intent into structured specifications, technical designs, and sequenced implementation tasks before writing a single line of code.

ISTD COIL Seminar by Vishesh Kumar – This session covers best practices for choosing between RDBMS and NoSQL databases in real-world industry scenarios on AWS, introduces state-of-the-art storage services and explores novel techniques for indexing and query optimisation at scale.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Mark He Huang – Modern AI systems often struggle in physical environments where observations are incomplete, noisy and constantly changing. This seminar presents a feedback-guided representation learning framework that helps AI systems revise what they know, maintain useful representations over time and generate physically plausible outcomes. The work spans machine unlearning, object-centric 3D visual memory and simulator-guided video generation, with the broader aim of enabling more reliable reasoning in the dynamic physical world.