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SUTD Appoints New Provost/Chief Academic & Innovation Officer After International Search
Professor Chee Yeow Meng, currently Vice President (Innovation and Enterprise) and Professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management at NUS, will join SUTD on 2 April 2025. The position of Provost/CAIO is a role redefined as part of SUTD Leap, a multi-year, multi-pronged strategic plan, that was launched in March 2024 with the aim of propelling SUTD to the forefront of the Design AI academic world.
Record Over 450 Students Participate in SUTD’s Third Reconfigurable Robotics Competition
RoboRoarZ Singapore is a unique design-centred reconfigurable robotics competition open to students aged 10 and above. Students from close to 40 local and overseas schools competed in this year’s run which was held at SUTD from 23 to 24 January.
SUTD Staff and Students Work Together With Smart AI-Powered Robots in Beach Clean-Up
Four smart robots from SUTD made their way to Pasir Ris Park today to help their human teammates clean the beach – together with Guest-of-Honour, Mr Baey Yam Keng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (SPS) for the Minister of Sustainability and the Environment as well as the Ministry of Transport, and the SUTD community comprising students, faculty and staff.
SUTD Pivots Towards Artificial Intelligence With $50M Investment, Becoming World’s First Design AI University
SUTD’s pivot to AI is premised on the principle that AI should no longer be viewed as a technological tool to be used by humans, but as part of a human-machine team, working together hand-in-hand and leveraging on each other’s strengths to find innovative solutions for real-world problems.
