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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Simon Perrault and his PhD student Gionnieve Lim for winning the Steve Howard Best Student Paper Award
OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) and Australia’s leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students.
The Climate Conversations – Here’s how your table at home can be made from cardboard
Peter Ortner, an assistant professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design at SUTD, tells CNA’s Julie Yoo how he’s come up with furniture that’s lightweight, spill-proof and sustainable.
Can the spectacular architecture and interiors generated by AI exist in the real world?
‘The real game-changer has been the iterative dialogues with AI – you need to learn how to talk, interact and transfer information,’ says Associate Professor Carlos Bañon, about advances in AI-image generation.
How to land a place in university – here’s a tip: Don’t use ChatGPT
SUTD’s director of admissions, Mr Jonathan Kua, says all shortlisted students need to attend a 30-minute one-on-one interview that he refers to as a conversation. It is an opportunity for the university officials to figure out if the student is the right fit for the university; similarly an opportunity for the student to understand what SUTD can offer and if it suits him or her.
Dragon element designs evolve with contemporary trends
Zheng Kai, an Architecture and Sustainable Design lecturer at SUTD, highlighted that as a community that is still traditional, it may be difficult to accept the presence of Western dragons in Chinese New Year decorations, but perceptions are dynamic and will evolve over time.
The Big Read: No more an inferior option, polytechnics have come a long way. What’s needed to take them up another level?
According to MOE, over the last few years, one in three fresh polytechnic graduates matriculated into autonomous universities — namely NUS, NTU, SMU, SUSS, SIT and SUTD.
The Big Spark
CNA’s The Big Spark is a new business reality show featuring 24 startups from Southeast Asia. Snap Robotics’ co-founder Saikrishna Dontu, a Research Associate at SUTD, shares how his product can transform the landscape of grasping automation through the development of technology akin to human hands.
The real dragon is not in the claws
In Singapore’s Chinatown, the dragon centrepiece crafted by SUTD students showcases a unique interpretation with four claws—three in the front and one at the rear—providing a modern twist to the traditional five claws.
SUTD develops original mini AI model with performance that surpasses many existing open source language models
A team led by Associate Professor Lu Wei, Associate Head (Research), Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, launched the AI model “TinyLlama”, an open-source small language model with 1.1 billion parameters, and pre-trained with 3 trillion tokens.
Top 10: Future AI Leaders
Soujanya Poria is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He has co-authored more than 150 papers, published in top-tier conferences and journals.
