Highlights
First Temasek-SUTD Generative AI Hackathon Gives Rise to Enterprise-Ready Digital Solutions
Fifty-nine students from SUTD spent five days in March collaborating with various Temasek employees to find solutions for 19 problem statements posed by the global investment company.
SUTD Breaks New Ground With New Design Accredited Degrees
Every single SUTD graduate from our undergraduate degree programmes is now recognised as being “design-trained”. This marks the first time all degrees in a university worldwide have been design accredited.
SUTD Launches First-of-Its-Kind Mini AI Model With Three Trillion-Token Punch
TinyLlama is a 1.1 billion parameter open-sourced small language model that has outperformed other open-source models of comparable sizes across several benchmarks. A total of three trillion tokens of datasets were pre-trained on TinyLlama within just four months.
SUTD Student Discovers “High Severity” Security Flaws in 5G Qualcomm Chips
A security flaw which could have wiped out 5G connection for about 59% of the world’s mobile phones was recently discovered by a recent SUTD PhD graduate student.
SUTD Researchers Develop First-of-its-kind Artificial Intelligence Model that Controls Music with Prompts
Dreaming of making your own music like Taylor Swift only you have no musical inclination at all? Fret not. Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed the first-of-its-kind music-domain-knowledge-inspired Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that generates music from text prompts.
SUTD’s AI Specialist Joins Prestigious MIT List of Young Innovators
In a world that is still trying to understand and appreciate the full capabilities of AI, Assistant Prof Soujanya Poria is trailblazing a path in the field of conversational AI, earning him a place in the prestigious list of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Under 35 Innovators for Asia-Pacific.
One-Third of SUTD’s Faculty Ranked Top 2% of World’s Best Scientists
The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 210,000 researchers from across the globe.
Nine in 10 SUTD fresh graduates employed within six months of graduation
Despite a slowing economy, around nine in 10 of SUTD’s fresh graduates were employed within six months of completing their final exams; with more than half receiving two or more job offers. The median gross salary increased to $4,800 in 2022 compared to $4,500 in 2021.
Advancing Singapore’s 6G future and talent, IMDA partners SUTD to launch the first 6G R&D lab in Southeast Asia
Minister for Communications and Information, Mrs Josephine Teo launched SUTD’s Future Communications Connectivity (FCC) Lab, the first physical 6G lab in the region that will also look to combine 6G R&D with SUTD’s AI Mega Centre.
Decentralised Security Provider Silence Laboratories (SUTD start-up) Raises S$2.4mil in Seed Funding
Silence Laboratories, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Singapore, has closed a US$1.7 million (about S$2.4m) round in seed funding, led by pi Ventures. The founders, Jay Prakash and Andrei Bytes earned their doctorate degrees at SUTD, where the company was incubated.