Achievements
Distinguished achievements at the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26)
SUTD participated in the AAAI-26 held at Singapore Expo from 20 ā 27 January 2026, with a booth showcasing cutting-edge AI technologies developed at the university. Faculty from ISTD were present to share their research with conference attendees, and Head of Pillar (ISTD) Professor Li Xiaoli, was also a keynote speaker for the Graphs and more Complex Structures for Learning and Reasoning (GCLR) workshop during the conference.
Prof Li Xiaoli speaks at the AI Factory Hackathon 2025 in Seoul
Prof Li Xiaoli was invited to speak at the AI Factory Hackathon 2025 on 16 December 2025, held in Seoul, where he delivered a presentation titled āAI for Smart Manufacturing: Making of Sensor Time Series ā An Introduction to Singaporeās Time Series Foundation Models.ā
Professor Zhou Jianying receives IEEE Fellow designation
Professor Zhou Jianying has been recognised as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to applied cryptography and cyber-physical system security.
Winners in SuperAI NEXT Hackathon 2025: DripSeek
The team of CSD and DAI students were amongst the winners at the SuperAI NEXT Hackathon with their project, DripSeek.
Assistant Professor Ernest Chong receives Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025
Prof Chong is placed him in the top 5% globally among more than 10,000 reviewers at the CVPR 2025, one of the worldās flagship conferences in artificial intelligence and computer vision.
LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon 2025
Dr Marie Siew and her research collaborators have won first place in the Decentralized and Multi-Agents Track of the hosted by Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence.
National first place in Accenture University Innovation Challenge 2025: Team HALeN
The team of CSD students emerged tops amongst other local universities for their outstanding idea of using AI to combat online scams.
Congratulations to SUTD Faculty Fellow Marie Siew, and collaborators for winning the Best Poster Award, at IEEE ICDCS 2024
We are pleased to share that SUTD Faculty Fellow Marie Siew, and her collaborators have won the Best Poster Award, at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2024, for their project āOptimal Variance-Reduced Client Sampling for Multiple Model Federated Learningā.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Dorien Herremans, Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria, and their teams for winning the SAIL Top 30 award by the World Artificial Intelligence Conference with their project āMustango: controllable text-to-musicā. ā AI Mega Centre at SUTD
We are pleased to share that Associate Professor Dorien Herremans, Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria, and their groups from ISTD have won the Super AI Leader (SAIL) Top 30 Award issued by the World Artificial Intelligence Conferences (WAIC), for their joint project āMustango: controllable text-to-musicā.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria for his winning paper at 2024 NAACL
His paper named āUnderstanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsenseā, won the award under the āSocial Impactā category. The project was supported by MOE Tier-2 grant.