Events
Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) Symposium 2026
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.
Linux security: Understanding rootkits vs viruses
ISTD COIL Seminar by Ng Hak Beng – This session will provide insights into security issues in the Linux environment, with a focus on rootkits.
All about memory
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.
2026 3rd International Conference on Edge Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing
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.
From prompt to production: Spec-driven AI development with AWS Kiro
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.
Beyond SQL: Modern database architectures for AI-native applications on AWS
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.
Feedback-guided representation learning for reasoning in the dynamic physical world
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.
Operational cryptography – Real protocols and path towards quantum resilience
ISTD COIL Seminar by Chia Boon Quee – The lecture centres on applied cryptography through the lens of real-world protocols and standards, rather than abstract fundamentals.
SUTD Competitive Programming Contest 2026
The SUTD Competitive Programming Contest (SUTDcpc) was successfully organised by members of the SUTD CPC Team and ISTD faculty.
Towards generalisable intelligence: From pre-training to chain-of-thought and interventional exploration
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Wang Tianduo – This thesis studies how large language models (LLMs) generalise under distribution shift.