Events
Flight trajectory planning
ESD Research Seminar by Ralf Borndörfer – This talk discusses the developments of and the application in one of the leading flight planning systems.
How to collaboratively add new knowledge to an LLM
ESD Research Seminar by Laura Wynter – We show what happens when an LLM is successively tuned and then show how to avoid the forgetting of old knowledge whilst benefiting from recent knowledge acquisition.
OT cybersecurity – a balancing act
ISTD COIL Seminar by David Ong – The awareness of Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity has increasingly come into focus with the recent OT Master Plan launched by CSA during OTCEP event in August 2024. This presentation will touch on the need to balance risk and reward while facing the challenges when ensuring compliance while achieving effective outcomes.
Glow up your UX game
ISTD COIL Seminar by Falaumaina Sharil – What does it take to thrive as a UX designer in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world? This talk dives into the top qualities that separate good designers from great ones—like empathy, curiosity, collaboration, and resilience.
LKY CIC Brownbag Lunchtime Talk: “Geospatial Knowledge Graph for Urban Studies”
Synopsis
Cities are evolving into increasingly differentiated, complex, and diverse systems. Fundamental drivers of urban forms, such as energy, mobility, and information technology, have transformed radically within the past decade. These shifts have given rise to new lifestyles, alongside changing demographic and migration patterns, prompting a need for new social structures and a rethinking of spatial
Tensor networks and the Belief Propagation algorithm
ESD Research Seminar by Itai Arad – Belief-propagation (BP) is a well-known message-passing algorithm from the world of classical physics and machine learning. It can be used to approximate the local marginals on multivariate probability distributions that are described by graphical models.
AI for humanity: why it matters?
ISTD COIL Seminar by James Ong – As AI is progressing at exponential rate, are we steering toward a more sustainable development of AI that meets humanity’s needs? James will share his advocacy of why and how to embrace AI for Humanity.
Bayesian design principles for frequentist sequential learning
ESD Research Seminar by Yunbei Xu – We develop a general theory to optimise the frequentist regret for sequential learning problems, where efficient bandit and reinforcement learning algorithms can be derived from unified Bayesian principles.
Roundtable on Global Gardens: Botanical Spaces in Literature, Science, and Sustainable Design
Two of our speakers will be familiar faces from HASS and ASD. Dr. Zhenxing Zhao (Senior Lecturer, HASS) will be speaking about gardens in Chinese poetry and art (a topic which he teaches on in his elective class), and Dr. Daniel Whittaker (Senior Lecturer, ASD) will talk about what we can learn about sustainable design from rainwater cooling strategies from gardens in India, Mexico, and Southeast Asia.
Building effective RAG applications for public good
ISTD COIL Seminar by Isaac Lim – Join Isaac, a Data Scientist from GovTech’s AI Practice, as he shares his experience empowering developers in government to build effective RAG (and more generally, LLM-based) applications.
