Events
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.
IEEE MRS 2025
The IEEE MRS 2025 will be held on 4-5 Dec 2025 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Where, what, how: Geometry, semantics and affordances for robotic mobile manipulation
ISTD COIL Seminar by Jen Jen Chung – This talk will discuss the tight connections between perception, planning and learning for robot grasping and nonprehensile interaction with articulated objects.
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.
From one-way mirrors to AI agents: 10 lessons from the field
ISTD COIL Seminar by Emily Cheung – In this session, Emily will share 10 lessons from her journey – from observing users behind one-way mirrors to designing AI-powered ventures.
The PM's UX dilemmas: what happens when good design meets the real world
ISTD COIL Seminar by Thenmugilan Gandhy – This talk is about the decisions that don’t make it into design case studies.
Functional programming in financial markets
ISTD COIL Seminar by Nguyen Huu-Hai – In this talk, the application of functional programming in a very large industrial setting will be showcased.
A multi-modal LLM-augmented deep reinforcement learning framework for adaptive traffic signal control
ISTD Seminar by Maonan Wang – Urban traffic congestion continues to pose severe challenges for sustainable mobility, and adaptive traffic signal control is widely recognized as a key solution.
The OT Security Platform
ISTD COIL Seminar by Jonathan Chin – Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) security safeguard devices, networks, and critical systems.
ISTD Industry Engagement Day 2025: Bridging Classrooms and Industry
Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar at SUTD hosted its annual Industry Engagement Day, bringing together ten leading industry and government partners and our talented Computer Science and Design (CSD) students for an inspiring afternoon of discussions, networking, and career insights.