Events
Theatre in the City: The Role of the Arts in Urban Communities
In this talk, Cheng Nien Yuan draws from her research on two eminent theatre companies in Singapore to consider the role of theatre and performance in promoting urban live-ability and love-ability.
Human in the loop automation: ride-hailing with remote (tele-) drivers
ESD Research Seminar by Xiaotang Yang – Using a spatial queueing model that captures the dynamics of pick up and trip times, this seminar will show that when workload is sufficiently high (relative to the number of vehicles), perhaps surprisingly, reducing the number of drivers relative to the number of vehicles can improve service level.
Young children’s social cognition and learning in an increasingly technological world
HASS Talk by Dr Tamar Kushnir – The talk will discuss the implications of early learning with technology, and possible generational changes that may have lasting effects as our modern children become adults.
Integrating EV charging and discharging into power grid through bilateral negotiation
ESD Research Seminar by Yun Fong Lim – To deal with demand uncertainty on a power grid, a power plant with limited ramping capability can collaborate with an electric vehicle (EV) company. With proper charging and discharging prices, the EV company voluntarily withdraws electricity from or returns electricity to the power grid in suitable phases.
HASS Talk – Marco Polo and the Heresy of Evil (By Paolo Visigalli from Shanghai Normal University)
This talk will closely examine the unique episode describing the Polos’ encounter with the Fuzhou ‘Christians’.
Guided cooperation for multi-agent teams
ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Pamela Wang – The thesis will study various degrees of centralisation in cooperation mechanisms, spanning from fully centralised planning-based approaches to fully decentralised communicating agents.
Extracting and reasoning with structured information in natural language and beyond
ISTD PhD Oral Defense 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.
Domain-aware stealthy attack and digital-twin-based defence for critical information infrastructures
ISTD PhD Oral Defense 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.
Human-centred design of automated labelling interventions to mitigate misinformation on social media
ISTD PhD Oral Defense 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.
Behaviour analysis in complex environments
ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Ng Xun Long – The thesis presents Chaotic World, a large-scale multi-modal dataset with fine-grained annotations of human actions, interactions, and sounds in chaotic situations.
