Congratulations to PhD Student Garbelini Matheus Eduardo for winning the Intel Bug Bounty Award – Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD)

Congratulations to PhD student Tok Yee Ching for his win at The Cybersecurity Awards 2019 – Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD)

He was honored with the “Winner of RSC Excellent Student Award” by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) this September. This award recognizes his academic excellence in leveraging computational chemistry to facilitate interdisciplinary research and his contribution to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect (DEIR) within the scientific community.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Teo Tzu Hsuan Christopher – In this dissertation, we make important contributions in improving fairness in generative models by identifying and addressing constraints which may limit their broader adoption.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Hong Pengfei – This thesis addresses critical questions surrounding the evaluation and enhancement of reasoning robustness, generalisability, and comprehensiveness in modern language models, particularly under realistic conditions involving noise, ambiguity, domain shifts, and multimodal inputs.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Chia Yew Ken – This thesis investigates the crucial role of structured information in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a focus on its extraction, utilisation, and extension to multimodal reasoning.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Bhardwaj Rishabh – This thesis investigates critical non-idealities in AI systems, focusing on safety behaviour post-training and alignment.

ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Menglin Li – 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.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria and his PhD Student Bhardwaj Rishabh for winning Gemma Academic Program GCP credit award

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