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.

ESD Research Seminar by Urban Larsson – Combinatorial Game Theory is the branch of Mathematics and Computer Science that studies two-player games with perfect and complete information; there is no chance, and there are no hidden moves.

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.

ESD Research Seminar by Yuanwei Liu – The design dilemma of “What will be different between near-field communications (NFC) and far-field communications (FFC)?” is discussed from four perspectives in this talk.

LKY CIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk – 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.

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.

LKY CIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk – This presentation explores the use of citizen science; highlighting the potential for this underutilised methodology to create better, data driven, outcomes for the design and planning of our cities and communities.

ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Menglin Li – Social media has become an integral part of daily life, leading to an explosion of social data. Geographical information within social media is essential for applications such as location-based analysis, recommendations, and targeted advertising. However, such information is sparse, prompting the exploration of mining it from social media data.