SUTD Welcomes President Tharman Shanmugaratnam as Its New Chancellor 01 Jul 2024 President Tharman, who is SUTD’s third Chancellor, was elected as Singapore’s President in September 2023. He served in politics for 22 years before resigning to contest in the Presidential Election. SITA Forges Ahead With Exciting Off-Airport Traveller Processing Research Collaboration With SUTD 03 Jun 2024 Powered by the existing SITA Flex solution, the Singapore University of Technology and Design’s innovative lab-based offsite passenger processing solutions aim to enhance global air passenger experience in the future. SUTD Leads First Global Design Alliance With World’s Top Design Tech Universities to Study the Impact of Design on Education 15 May 2024 The who’s who of the design and tech world of higher learning have, for the first time, come together to form a global Design Alliance that aims to reassess how design can play an even greater role in education. First Temasek-SUTD Generative AI Hackathon Gives Rise to Enterprise-Ready Digital Solutions 08 May 2024 Fifty-nine students from SUTD spent five days in March collaborating with various Temasek employees to find solutions for 19 problem statements posed by the global investment company. Mapletree Donates S$50,000 Through 250 Trees to SUTD 05 Apr 2024 Mapletree Investments made its stand for a better world by donating S$50,000 through 250 trees to SUTD. The joint tree planting event, Trees for a Better World: Plant a Tree with Mapletree @ SUTD, which had close to 300 participants, was graced by Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of National Development and Ms Jessica Tan, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore. SUTD Aims to Be a Top Design-Led Technology University With New Leadership, Vision and Strategy 11 Mar 2024 SUTD, which was the first university to incorporate design thinking and design innovation into its entire curriculum over a decade ago, will embark on a new strategy “SUTD Leap” aimed at redesigning higher education with a greater focus on design and deep tech so as to nurture design x tech innovators and innovator leaders going forward. SUTD Breaks New Ground With New Design Accredited Degrees 16 Feb 2024 Every single SUTD graduate from our undergraduate degree programmes is now recognised as being “design-trained”. This marks the first time all degrees in a university worldwide have been design accredited. SUTD Launches First-of-Its-Kind Mini AI Model With Three Trillion-Token Punch 31 Jan 2024 TinyLlama is a 1.1 billion parameter open-sourced small language model that has outperformed other open-source models of comparable sizes across several benchmarks. A total of three trillion tokens of datasets were pre-trained on TinyLlama within just four months. SUTD Launches $3.2 Million Baby Shark Micro-innovation Fund for Its Students 23 Jan 2024 Affectionately called the “Baby Shark Fund”, the micro-innovation programme aims to bolster the university’s strong commitment to student-led innovation, design-thinking and risk-taking. 1 2 next