ISTD COIL Seminar by Fan Liu & Felix Tong – This session will give you an overview of how technology, especially cybersecurity, is being adapted at Morgan Stanley. Speakers will then deep dive into the topic of digital signatures – the origin, history, and more importantly its current application in the banking industry and latest developments.

ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Li Xu – In the ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning has emerged as a pivotal technique driving remarkable advancements across various domains. Among its many branches, multi-modal learning stands out as a particularly significant approach, which involves integrating and processing information from multiple modalities of data, such as visual content and language information, to enhance the capabilities of AI systems.

Urban Larsson (IIT Bombay, India) – The Fundamental Theorem of Normal Play

The talk will focus on how we have been addressing two of the most difficult issues that confront us – an increasingly dense environment and the scarcity of fundamental resources such as land, water and energy. The lecture provides useful insights for all who live and work in Singapore and are interested to contribute to making ours an even more liveable, sustainable and vibrant city.

Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London) – Near-field Communications: What Will be Different?

Synopsis Cities are complex entities that consists of many interacting systems. Cities are expected to grow in size and diversity, face diminishing

The panel on participatory budgeting (PB) delves into the process of inclusive decision-making for the allocation of public funds within communities.

ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Rulin Chen – An assembly comprises parts joined together to achieve a specific form or functionality. Compared to monolithic objects, assemblies have many benefits in terms of fabrication, transportation, and adaptability. Parts of assemblies are always geometrically simple to fabricate with digital techniques, can be efficiently packed for transportation, and offer adaptability through flexible replacement or modification. Hence, assemblies are widely used in our daily lives that most of our consumer products, industry machines, and architectural structures are assemblies.

Synopsis This presentation explores the use of citizen science; highlighting the potential for this underutilised methodology to create better, data

Join us for a panel discussion on 21st June as we Address the field of praxis, and the role design might have played/ could play in future projects within shifting strategies from mitigation toward adaptation to generate resilience.