ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Gionnieve Lim – The thesis investigates the use of various labelling interventions that incorporate automated fact-checking elements for humans, examining people’s perceptions of the labels and their attitudes to the labelled content.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Zeng Guangtao – Language models are foundational to modern artificial intelligence, but their development is often constrained by challenges in efficiency, controllability, and reasoning. In this thesis, we aim to address these limitations by introducing advanced paradigms at both the pre-training and post-training stages.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Liu Xiaogang’s PhD Student in Winning the Merit Award in the “Visual Science” Cover Contest

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Joel Ong – We explore the modern application of deep learning techniques in portfolio construction, presenting innovative methodologies that significantly enhance traditional investment strategies. Central to this research are three advanced frameworks that leverage deep learning to optimize financial portfolios.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Liu Jun and his PhD Student Qu Haoxuan for winning PREMIA Best Student Paper Award

Congratulations to Professor Zhou Jianying and his visiting PhD Student for receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at ACSAC 2023

Congratulations to Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan, ASD PhD candidate, for her appointment as President of the Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA), 2021-2023

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Duo Peng – In this paper, we investigate Diffusion-Based Domain Adaptation, leveraging emerging
diffusion models to address domain adaptation tasks. The motivation behind our research stems from the powerful distribution transformation capabilities of diffusion models, which we aim to harness to help AI models adapt to new data distributions.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Liu Xiaogang’s PhD Student in winning the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Excellent Student Award

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Wei Lin – Critical Information Infrastructures (CII) encompass the fundamental computer systems that ensure the continuous delivery of essential services, including sectors such as energy, water, and infocomm. Safeguarding these systems against both physical and cyber threats is crucial to maintaining the continuity and resilience of the services they support.