Events
InspireCon 2025
Showcasing over 80 innovative projects from Capstone (by our graduating class of 2025), Baby Shark Fund and Engineering Product Development. Come experience the power of student innovation and design!
Network optimisation and platform pricing in coupled energy and transportation systems
ESD Research Seminar by Ding Yanyan – This study examines shared electric vehicles (SEVs) providing transport and discharging services via a ride-sourcing platform.
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.
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.
Online resource allocation under non-stationary customer arrivals and unknown demands
ESD Research Seminar by Hanzhang Qin – By leveraging results from the stochastic contextual bandit with knapsack and online matching with adversarial arrivals, we develop an online scheme to allocate the resources to non-stationary customers.
Two-sided pricing and learning with inventory constraints
ESD Research Seminar by Meichun Lin – Motivated by online used-car platforms, this seminar will study pricing decisions for purchasing and selling a product in a two-sided market.
Efficient and adaptive AI for time series data analytics
ESD Research Seminar by Zhenghua Chen – Time Series Data Analytics (TSDA) is essential for a wide range of applications, including machine fault diagnosis and prognosis, and healthcare informatics.
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.
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.
