James Dyson Award – National Runner-up A team of five EPD students, Kushagra Jain, Sarah Loo, Shamoeel Aliasgar Moochhala, Michael Lim and Colin Teoh (not in photo), won the national runner-up prize for the Singapore edition of the James Dyson Award. Their design, Project Mimir, was selected among 48 other entries. To address the lack of affordable and accessible Braille printing options, the team repurposed 3D printer parts to build the Mimir embosser at a fraction of the cost of Braille embossers in the market today. Its software comes with built-in voice-to-text capability, and users can also connect via a computer to input text, or even translate from various file formats. With this, Project Mimir empowers visually impaired individuals to produce Braille materials independently. The team is working to further develop and commercialise Project Mimir with the hopes of lowering costs further. ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2023 SEA Games Four SUTD students and alumni were part of Team Singapore at the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 5 to 17 May 2023. (From left to right) Jezamine Chua, Master of Architecture (M.Arch) alumna from Class of 2017, won the Bronze medal in Wrestling Women’s Freestyle Under 76kg. Heather Lee Xuan Hui, ESD alumna from Class of 2022, was part of the women’s Water Polo team that took home the Silver medal. ESD student, Foo Wenxin, was part of the women’s Floorball team, which won the Gold medal. CSD student, Ong Jung Yi, won the Gold medal in the Men’s Swimming 200m Butterfly. Julius Baer x Tenity Intrapreneurship Programme – Winner Three SUTD students, (from left) Chan Wei Jie Ivan, Kwa Yu Liang and Loy Xing Jun (all in white), participated in the Julius Baer x Tenity Intrapreneurship Program 2023, an intrapreneurship challenge for private bank Julius Baer. The team received the 1st prize for their innovative solution – Webmorales – a web app that utilises Natural Language Processing models and web scraping methods to help users visualise data through charts and customise dashboards based on chat prompts. STUDENTS Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2023 Engineering Product Development (EPD) alumni Eleora Teo Jia Yee (Class of 2019) and Johannes Brian Sunarko (Class of 2021) were recognised for co-founding med-tech start-up Castomize, which specialises in 4D-printed casts for fractured bones. Computer Science and Design (CSD) alumni Aravind Kandiah and Charles Wong (both Class of 2019) were recognised for co-founding Bifrost, a generative AI and synthetic data software development start-up. EPD PhD student Denzel Lee is recognised for co-founding start-up Datature, which lets users without professional coding skills build machine learning applications. p. 44 SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN
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