Events
ISTD Design Exhibition 2026
We’re excited to invite you to the annual ISTD Design Exhibition 2026 – a showcase of innovation, creativity, and engineering brilliance by our Sophomore CSD students!
ISTD Industry Engagement Day 2026
Join us for an exciting afternoon of networking, career insights, and opportunities — organised exclusively for ISTD/CSD students.
Shaping inductive bias in foundation models: A signal-centric perspective on reasoning and learning dynamics
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Jiaxi Li – Foundation models have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, yet their behaviours can vary substantially depending on how learning signals are constructed and exposed during training.
Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs) 101
ISTD COIL Seminar by Lee Kuan Yong – Join Dell Technologies’ AI Innovation Hub as they take you through a practical deep dive into how modern Generative AI and LLMs really work.
The erosion & rebirth of quality
ISTD COIL Seminar by Todd Pasley – This talk explores a startling dissonance: while our technology has leaped into the future, the Quality mindset of organisations today is often still anchored in a 1960s manufacturing model.
Mobile application security sharing
ISTD COIL Seminar by Ryan Kwok – This session will provide an overview of key security considerations in mobile app development, common risks and vulnerabilities, and how we should think about cybersecurity in the mobile context.
Designing human-AI communications for observability, predictability, and (re)directability
ISTD Research Talk by Lewis Chuang – In this talk, Prof Lewis Chuang will share previous and ongoing research focused on designing interfaces for supporting communications and mutual awareness between human operators and automated systems.
Shaping the future of connectivity – A telco veteran’s journey into digital communications
ISTD COIL Seminar by Heng Kwee Tong – In this inspiring session, the Chief Technology Officer of SPTel shares his three-decade journey through the rapid evolution of digital communications and the role young talent will play in shaping what comes next.
Beyond the prompt: Building the distributed infrastructure for trusted AI agents
ISTD COIL Seminar by Stevanus Satria – This talk explores how Consensus, Fault Tolerance, and Consistency are being reimagined through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to build governed Al agents.
Cybersecurity today: Attacks are real! Will AI save the day?
ISTD COIL Seminar by Tan Jiaqi – This talk will explore how we can study cybersecurity incidents using publicly-available information to understand the technical details, and see how Cyber defenders can better protect their systems.