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SMU Postgraduate Alumni Sharing in Tokyo

Public Events Hear directly from our SMU Postgraduate Alumni as they share their personal experiences on why they chose SMU, what their postgraduate journey was like, how they benefited from the university’s strong industry connections and global network, and how their SMU experience has contributed to their professional growth. What you can look forward to: Alumni Sharing: Hear real stories and perspectives from SMU postgraduate alumni. Open Q&A: Ask questions about studying at SMU, student life, career opportunities and more. Programme Information: How postgraduate education can strengthen your skills and career prospects, Networking: Meet SMU alumni and connect with other professionals who are exploring postgraduate opportunities. You’ll also have the opportunity to discover SMU’s postgraduate programmes across business, finance, accounting, technology and other disciplines, and explore which could best support your career goals. Bring your questions and join us for a practical and interactive conversation to help… RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://pgpp.smu.edu.sg/acton/media/47220/smur-lp-jp-var-alumnisharing-202610?utm_source=web&utm_medium=internal&utm_campaign=smur_var_jp_20261025&utm_content=events-calendar_link_register. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: University Events. Audience: Prospective Student. Public. Professionals. Sunday, October 25, 2026, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Tokyo American Club 2 Chome-1-2 Azabudai, Minato City, Tokyo 106-8649, Japan.

SMU: Tokyo Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/smumasters/tokyocoffeesession-26oct2026. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Social Sciences & Humanities. Accounting. Business. Economics. Law. Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Monday, October 26, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM. Starbucks Coffee - Gotanda Tokyu Square.

SCIS Homecoming 2026

🏠 SCIS Homecoming is happening! Homecoming is both reunion and networking in one place. It will be an engaging evening dedicated to building meaningful connections between SCIS alumni and current students. Featuring a mix of structured networking 🤝 interactive games 🎮 great food 🍽️ and live performances 🎶 this will be an unforgettable night. Come as you are, leave with more than you came with! For any questions, feel free to reach out to Jaimin (@JaiminOng), Shirin (@s_h_1_r_1_n) or Leyna (@LeynaCWS) on Telegram! [NOTE: This initiative is only meant for SCIS students and alumni.]. RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVyy1sJGILdS2MefCJYx7JYl7PuFw9Q-s7SHhuVaivqU4fOw/viewform. Type: Social & Networking. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Current Student. Alumni. Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM. SMU Hall B1-2, YPHSL, 55 Armenian St, Singapore 179943.

SMU: Ho Chi Minh City Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/ivysim-smu/hcmccs281026. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to ​​discover ​​how ​​our post-graduate programmes ​​can support your personal and professional aspirations. ​​ Our Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly note that sessions may be conducted in a group se… Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Accounting. Business. Law. Social Sciences & Humanities. Economics. Audience: Public. Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Location will be sent to confirmed attendees.

Towards More Effective Coding Agents through Model–Harness Pairing, Adaptation, and Co-Evolution

Infosessions Subtitle: SCIS EngD 2026 Qualifying Exam by ZHAO Lu. RSVP: . Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Prospective Student. Current Student. Alumni. Academic Community. SMU Faculty & Staff. Incoming Students. Thursday, October 29, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.

Compendia: AI-Driven Interactive Knowledge Synthesis and Visual Storytelling

In the digital age, readers value quantitative journalism that is clear, concise, analytical, and human-centred. To understand complex topics, they often piece together scattered facts from multiple articles. Visual storytelling can transform fragmented information into clear, engaging narratives, yet its use with unstructured online articles remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we present Compendia, an automated system that analyzes online articles in response to a user's query and generates a coherent data story tailored to the user's informational needs. Compendia addresses key challenges of storytelling from unstructured text through two modules covering: Online Article Retrieval, which gathers relevant articles; Data Fact Extraction, which identifies, validates, and refines quantitative facts; Fact Organization, which clusters and merges related facts into coherent thematic groups; and Visual Storytelling, which transforms the organized facts into narratives with visualizations in an interactive… Subtitle: Pre-Conference Talk by VIDANA Gamage Manusha Imesh Karunathilaka. Contact: scisseminar@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: , VIDANA GAMAGE Manusha Imesh Karunathilaka PhD Candidate School of Computing and Information Systems Singapore Management University, Manusha Karunathilaka is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, data visualization, and educational technologies. He is particularly interested in developing AI-driven interactive artifacts that support knowledge… RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ynmKyZpakUeiQ_Bq_WdGTejbEKPlArBJhZomj91naG9URUE2UUFNTE9XNTZETk8wNTROOUc5VDZOWS4u. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM. Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. SMU SCIS, Singapore 178902. For more info visit computing.smu.edu.sg.

The Limit Is in the Input, Not the Model: State-Dependent Command Safety in Natural-Language Interfaces to Industrial Controllers

Infosessions Subtitle: SCIS EngD 2026 Pre-conference talk by Kevin TAUKOOR Hemen. RSVP: . Event Details: About the Talk Language models judging commands to industrial controllers may not receive machine state, the equipment’s current condition. The same command can require opposite safety decisions in different states, so an incorrect answer may reflect missing information rather than poor reasoning.  We propose an answerability audit: does the model receive the information needed to decide?  The audit records the model’s inputs and pairs the same command with two states requiring opposite answers.… Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Prospective Student. Current Student. Alumni. Academic Community. SMU Faculty & Staff. Incoming Students. Friday, October 30, 2026, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM.

SMU: Seoul Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/smupgppz/smu-consultation-seoul-0826. Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Social Sciences & Humanities. Accounting. Business. Economics. Law. Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Friday, October 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. The Grand Lotte Seoul.

SMU: Bangkok Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/ivysim-smu/bkkcs301026. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to ​​discover ​​how ​​our post-graduate programmes ​​can support your personal and professional aspirations. ​​ Our Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly note that sessions may be conducted in a group se… Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Accounting. Business. Law. Social Sciences & Humanities. Economics. Audience: Public. Friday, October 30, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Location will be sent to confirmed attendees.

Hybrid Learning for Recommendation: From Contrastive Alignment to Language-Model Fusion

Recommender systems have largely relied on collaborative filtering, which maps users and items to compact latent vectors and ranks by their dot product. This makes large-scale ranking fast, but interaction data records only that a preference was expressed, never why, and is often sparse. User reviews and pre-trained language models can supply the missing semantics, yet existing methods either treat reviews as input features, underserving entities with few reviews, or place a language model in the inference path at a per-query cost that does not scale. This dissertation brings semantic understanding into collaborative recommendation while preserving efficient retrieval. First, a review-centric contrastive alignment framework moves reviews from the input pipeline into the training objective. Second, a large language model extends this framework by constructing contrastive views offline. Third, a fusion framework jointly trains user and item ID-token embeddings with masked identifier modeling through a frozen l… Subtitle: PhD Dissertation Defense by DONG Viet Hoang. Contact: scisseminars@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: , DONG Viet Hoang PhD Candidate School of Computing and Information Systems Singapore Management University, I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science (Honors Program) from the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. My research interests include recommender systems, contrastive learning, and large language models for recommendation; in particular, I integrate user reviews and language models into collaborative filtering to build recommender systems that are both… RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ynmKyZpakUeiQ_Bq_WdGTejbEKPlArBJhZomj91naG9UN1o3QjlRMlI1VzkxQUpWQ1JHVkhLRkpFMy4u. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Current Student. Academic Community. Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. SMU SCIS 1, Singapore 178902. For more info visit computing.smu.edu.sg.

Climate Transition Stress Testing for Corporate Credit Risk

Infosessions Subtitle: SCIS EngD 2026 Pre-conference talk by NGUYEN Huynh Long Hung. RSVP: . Event Details: , Abstract This talk presents a transparent data-mining approach for connecting corporate financial information with ESG risk measures to support climate-transition stress testing. The framework separates two tasks: assessing a firm’s underlying financial distress and examining how an externally imposed transition-risk scenario could affect that assessment. This separation makes the assumptions behind the stress test visible, auditable, and replaceable. Using U.S. corporate financial and ESG data, the… Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Prospective Student. Current Student. Alumni. Academic Community. SMU Faculty & Staff. Incoming Students. Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM.

SMU: Taipei Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/ivysim-smu/tpcs041126. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to ​​discover ​​how ​​our post-graduate programmes ​​can support your personal and professional aspirations. ​​ Our Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly note that sessions may be conducted in a group se… Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Accounting. Business. Law. Social Sciences & Humanities. Economics. Audience: Public. Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM. Location will be sent to confirmed attendees.

Towards Dynamic Security Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems

Infosessions Subtitle: SCIS EngD 2026 Final Dissertation by HUANG Shao Fei. RSVP: . Event Details: , Abstract Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) underpin critical infrastructure, transportation, and industrial operations, yet their extended life cycles, evolving threat landscapes, and safety-critical demands make them difficult to secure using traditional, static security engineering approaches. This dissertation argues that CPS security demands a dynamic security engineering paradigm: one that continuously updates threat-informed models, incorporates operational evidence, and supports adaptive decision-maki… Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Prospective Student. Current Student. Alumni. Academic Community. SMU Faculty & Staff. Incoming Students. Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.

Grounding Foundation Models with Local Context for Societal Impact

Foundation models are remarkably capable but fundamentally lack local context, which are the domain-specific, community-specific, and structurally rich knowledge required by real-world applications. In this talk, I will discuss our work on bridging this gap through knowledge graphs, retrieval-grounded architectures, and domain-aware reasoning. I will show how these approaches enable deployed tools for wildlife conservation research, navigation of Colombia's Truth Commission archives, and personalized nutritional reasoning; the very settings where generic model knowledge falls short and local context is everything. I will close with reflections on what it takes to move from innovative methods to tools that practitioners actually use. Subtitle: Research Seminar by Nitesh CHAWLA. Contact: scisseminars@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: , Nitesh CHAWLA Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science & Engineering University of Notre Dame, Nitesh CHAWLA is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Lucy Family Director for Data & AI Academic Strategy, leading the Data, AI, and Computing Initiative at the University of Notre Dame. His research is focused on artificial intelligence, data science, and network science, and is motivated by the question of how technology can advance the common good through… RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=ynmKyZpakUeiQ_Bq_WdGTbOXO7ktpRtBsn62WuekYtpUMzUzQTU4UDJXQTRHSDFNSVI1WDJCWklGSC4u&route=shorturl. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Current Student. Academic Community. Friday, November 13, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM. Seminar Room 3-4, Level 3. SMU SCIS 1, Singapore 178902. For more info visit computing.smu.edu.sg.

SMU: Jakarta Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/ivysim-smu/20261113jktcs. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to ​​discover ​​how ​​our post-graduate programmes ​​can support your personal and professional aspirations. ​​ Our Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly note that sessions may be conducted in a group se… Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Accounting. Business. Law. Social Sciences & Humanities. Economics. Audience: Public. Friday, November 13, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Location will be sent to confirmed attendees.

SMU: Surabaya Coffee Session

Public Events RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://calendly.com/chrisng-fstn/smuccsurabayanov26. Event Details: Join us for an insightful session to ​​discover ​​how ​​our post-graduate programmes ​​can support your personal and professional aspirations. ​​ Our Admissions Advisors will speak with you directly to provide detailed guidance on the application process and to discuss the financial aid and scholarship opportunities that may be available to you. For a pre-application assessment, please bring along a copy of your resume for a personalised review. Kindly note that sessions may be conducted in a group se… Type: Information Sessions. Subject: Accounting. Business. Law. Social Sciences & Humanities. Economics. Audience: Public. Monday, November 16, 2026, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Location will be sent to confirmed attendees.