Events

Mark Sin (Apple Inc.) – What in School Helped my Career?
Are you curious about how your school experiences can help shape your career? Join us for an insightful seminar by Mark Sin, an overseas Singaporean based in California, who is an accomplished engineering architect at Apple Inc. In this seminar, Mark will share how the completion of industry projects, internships and acquisition of essential soft skills during his school days could help to land him into an engineering role in one of the world’s leading tech companies. […]


ISTD PhD Oral Defense presented by Haoran Li – Overcoming the Limitations of Autoregressive and Non-Autoregressive Neural Models
Language models are critical to the advancement of natural language processing and general artificial intelligence. In this thesis, we aim to address the limitations of language models, particularly focusing on the exposure bias in Autoregressive (AR) models and the label bias in Non-Autoregressive (NAR) models. […]


Fan Liu & Felix Tong (Morgan Stanley Technology) – An introduction of Cybersecurity in Investment Banking: An overview of Digital Signatures
This session will give you an overview of how technology, especially cybersecurity, is being adapted at Morgan Stanley. Speakers will then deep dive into the topic of digital signatures – the origin, history, and more importantly its current application in the banking industry and latest developments. […]


ISTD PhD Oral Defense presented by Li Xu – Towards Effective, Robust, and Continual Multi-modal Learning
In the ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning has emerged as a pivotal technique driving remarkable advancements across various domains. Among its many branches, multi-modal learning stands out as a particularly significant approach, which involves integrating and processing information from multiple modalities of data, such as visual content and language information, to enhance the capabilities of AI systems. The primary objective of multi-modal learning is to leverage the complementary information present in different modalities to achieve better performance than using any single modality alone, mimicking the way humans perceive and understand the world. […]


ISTD PhD Oral Defense presented by Rulin Chen – Modeling and Design of Assemblies with Discrete Equivalence Classes
An assembly comprises parts joined together to achieve a specific form or functionality. Compared to monolithic objects, assemblies have many benefits in terms of fabrication, transportation, and adaptability. Parts of assemblies are always geometrically simple to fabricate with digital techniques, can be efficiently packed for transportation, and offer adaptability through flexible replacement or modification. Hence, assemblies are widely used in our daily lives that most of our consumer products, industry machines, and architectural structures are assemblies. […]


ISTD PhD Oral Defense presented by Ms. Menglin Li – Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models for Social Geolocation
Social media has become an integral part of daily life, leading to an explosion of social data. Geographical information within social media is essential for applications such as location-based analysis, recommendations, and targeted advertising. However, such information is sparse, prompting the exploration of mining it from social media data. […]

IEEE 802.11ad based Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC): design, prototype and performance analysis
ISTD Seminar by Sumit J. Darak – The talk will present the recommendation to enable the IEEE 802.11ad framework to support for radar-based localisation of mobile users while maintaining compatibility with the existing communication protocol requirements; signal processing and online learning-based algorithms for supporting radar-based detection and localisation of mobile users as well as estimation of channel conditions in both static and quasi-static scenarios.

50.047 Mobile Robotics Course – Autonomous Race Car Challenge
50.047 Mobile Robotics Course – Autonomous Race Car Challenge


Tan Wee Siang & Yap Jian Beng (Singtel) – The Quantum Leap: Unleashing the Power of Cloud Networking
Discover how cutting-edge technologies such as 5G and networking slicing are paving way for an era of unparalleled agility, innovation and challenges. Learn more about network analytics from Jian Beng as he shares insights of what does life looks like after university as he debunk common misconceptions about working in the field of Networks. […]


Sujoy Roy (AWS) – Building Machine Learning Solutions: A Working Backwards Approach
Abstract Working Backwards is Amazon’s process of discovery and invention that delivers customer delight. Whether it is research or product building, at the Generative Al Innovation Center, AWS, we take a working backwards approach starting with the user/customer. This talk will discuss the different stages of this working backwards approach to research and building a production ready machine [earning (ML) solution. With […]
