Events

Mok Sze Xin (Ernst & Young) – Technology and Data in the World of Commercial Trade and Supply Chains

Greater uncertainty in global trade flows and black swan events, such as COVID-19, have increasingly challenged the current supply chain business model. Digital technologies have been recognized as a key enabler for enabling resilient and responsive supply chains. In this seminar, the speaker will share about the ongoing research program Supply Chain 4.0, which aims to research and co-develop digital and automation technologies with industry members to enable responsive, resilient and secured supply chain management processes to prepare company for the ever volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) global supply chain environment. Details of the three research themes will be shared, which include Supply Chain Connectivity, Data-Driven Optimization and Smart Warehouse Automation for next generation logistics.

Jonathan Tan (Unabiz) – Massive IoT: Tiny Sensors, Low Power Network, Unified Interface

EPD Industry Day

Featured in The Business Times – M1 and SUTD to jointly develop 5G robotics technology – Engineering Product Development (EPD)

Matthias Chin (Cloudsine) – Using Deep Learning to Detect Web Defacement Hackings

Signs of Safety: Qualification Devices and the Consumption of Risky Poultry in China’s ‘Wet’ Markets

The nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation (NPMLE) is a classic and important method to estimate the mixture models from finite observations. The discretization of the infinite dimensional probability measure with a fixed support in the NPMLE leads to a finite dimensional convex optimization problem. Although can be solved by off-the-shelf interior point based solvers, the algorithm does not scale well with the number of grid points and the number of observed data points. In this talk, we propose an efficient and scalable semismooth Newton based augmented Lagrangian method (ALM). By carefully exploring the structure of the ALM subproblem, we show that the computational cost of the generalized Hessian (second order information) is independent of the number of grid points. Extensive numerical experiments are conducted to show the effectiveness of our approach.

Financial institutions (FIs) are leading targets of cyber-attacks. Banks are where the money is, and for cybercriminals, attacking banks offers multiple avenues for profit through extortion, theft, and fraud, while nation-states and hacktivists also target the financial sector for political and ideological leverage. Regulators are taking notice, and raising the bar and their expectations from FIs to ensure customers data and funds are well protected.

Within our session we will discuss on the everchanging cyber landscape, the emerging threats and the challenges they bring to financial insinuations and the people who operates in the Information and Cyber Security space.

Dor will refer to the SUTD graduates program within SCB and how the grads can contribute to the Information Cyber Security program within SCB.

Assistant Professor Ang Yee Sin’s research team members have won two awards in the International Symposium on Advanced Functional Materials (ISAFM2). The symposium is organised by Monash University Malaysia.

SMT Senior Research Assistant, Tan Chuin Wei has won the Champion award for the Modelling category (best presentation).
SMT visiting student, Su Tong (funded by CSC) has won the best poster design award.

Congratulations to both Chuin Wei and Su Tong for their hard work and achievements!