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Prof. Ee-Peng Lim was invited as a keynote speaker to give a speech on “People Analytics for Improving Social Well-Being” at TAAI 2019, November 21-23.

The 24th International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI2019) is an annual leading conference on artificial intelligence and is now a firmly established event in the AI community in Taiwan. It is mainly sponsored by Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) and hosted by National University of Kaohsiung, which is located in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

TWO SMU COMPUTING DONS HONOURED AT PACIFIC-ASIA CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING 2019

Professor Lim Ee Peng and Associate Professor Zhu Feida from the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University (SMU) have been conferred the PAKDD Distinguished Contributions Award and PAKDD Early Career Award respectively at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2019.

Living Analytics Research Centre participated at the Southeast Asia Machine Learning School (SEA MLS), July 8-12, 2019.

The Southeast Asia Machine Learning School is a five-day event where participants have the chance to learn more about the current state of the art in machine learning and deep learning, including relevant applications to data science, computer vision, and natural language processing.

Prof Zheng Baihua gave a talk on Managing and exploring Trajectories at the National Chiao Tung University.

Can mobile crowdsourcing apps bring back the kampung spirit?

Despite the country’s high population density, many Singaporeans remain strangers even to their immediate neighbours. Mobile crowdsourcing apps such as HelpBuddy could promote active citizenry and increase volunteerism within communities. From sharing household items with your neighbours to helping them find lost pet dogs, find out how you can help others in your neighbourhood via your mobile phone.

World's Smartest Nation – Singapore

As a Smart Nation, Singapore’s main goal is to improve the quality of life among its people. Initiatives like a one log-in SingPass and LTA's My TRANSPORT.SG app, provides much conveniences to her residents. Professor Lim Ee-Peng shares his view on how Singpass is useful in navigation across platforms. Singapore also hopes to share its experiences with her ASEAN neighbours to help them ease some of the urban challenges.

As Singapore turns her focus on the digital economy, there is an urgency to equip professionals with the relevant skillset

As Singapore turns her focus on the digital economy, there is an urgency to equip professionals with the relevant skillset. Thus, Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in partnership with strategic partners such as Workforce Singapore (WSG) and SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) launched the TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) initiative to train up professionals with the with the right information and communications technology (ICT) skills. With subsidy from the government and short-term courses, businesses are more willing to support their employees in their skills upgrade.

SMU is poised to offer real world scenarios to students as it houses a number of Smart Nation Research centres

With Singapore’s push towards Smart Nation, SMU launched an interdisciplinary course to groom the next generation of professionals for smart countries economy. School of Information Systems’ Smart-City Management & Technology Major brings together faculties from technology, social sciences and management disciplines to allow students to have a broad-based understanding on the issues and challenges pertaining to a smart nation. Chen Jialu, the driving force behind this course, sees that SMU is poised to offer real world scenarios to students as it houses a number of Smart Nation Research centres.

Smart Nation initiative is beyond technological advances and the heart of the matter is how it can make processes and lifestyle needs smoother and accessible to all

Minister of Education Ong Ye Kung who is also part of the Ministerial Committee for Smart Nation and Digital Government Group shares that the Smart Nation initiative is beyond technological advances and the heart of the matter is how it can make processes and lifestyle needs smoother and accessible to all.

On the issue of talent development, the strategy is to maximise the full potential of each person to face new challenges and work in the future. He also shares 3 challenges to building a Smart Nation, namely, social changes, governance and willingness of citizens to embrace the change.

How the Singapore government plays a role in turning Singapore into a Smart Nation and its goals

In an exclusive interview with Taiwan’s CommonWealth magazine, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Smart Nation initiative shares how the Singapore government plays a role in turning Singapore into a Smart Nation and its goals.
1. To stay competitive as a small Nation State, as the new industrial revolution transforms how the economy, society and government operates.
2. To build a society with a high quality of life and inclusiveness
3. To enhance the provision of government services to meet the expectations of its people.

Singapore Government thinks like a company in order to achieve its SMART Nation objectives.

It also works closely with large, medium and small enterprise to build their capacity and ultimately to export the technology to other ASEAN nations. The government also assists SME to come on board the SmartNation initiative though grants. Prof Lim Ee Ping, Director of Living Analytics Research Centre, shared how his team gathered information on 1000 food items and supplied them to the Healthy 365 app. The centre has also completed a number of projects, collecting analytics from local residents. However, as more CCTVs pop out around the country, some are sceptical about the SmartNation initiative and see it as a means for the government to monitor what its citizens are doing.

Just how smart is Singapore as a SMART Nation?

With just a phone, Singaporeans can perform a range of transactions such transfer money, find out how much calories his lunch contain and even make a booking at a hospital. The government has worked toward integrating Government services into one platform so that it can deliver customised services at a citizen-centric level. With these 8 apps. A citizen can manage all the information and services he will need – PayNow, MyTransport.Sg, Healthy 365, Health Buddy, OneService, Moments of Life (Families).

Strong government support has helped Singapore achieve stunning results in just 4 years.

Being a small, vulnerable city state, a strong sense of crisis awareness has propelled Singapore’s government to take a whole of government approach to implement smart nation initiatives and educating citizens on how to move toward e-transactions. The main thrust of the Smart Nation initiative is not a pursuit of technological advances but a vision to improve the quality of life of residents.

Survival Strategy of Singapore: Keeping pace with the Times

In the 2017 Global Smart City Performance Index, Singapore came up tops as a Smart City and Smart Country. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister-in-Charge of the Smart Nation shared that “Singapore’s vision of a Smart Nation is aimed at enhancing a vibrant competitive economy with many new job opportunities, an inclusive society with a high quality of life and innovative responsive government services.” This success is a result of the forward planning of Singapore since the 2006 10-year Smart Nation Plan and 2014 Smart Nation initiative.

To execute a successful SMART nation, not only are technological advances important, more importantly, there must be good management of human capital and data. Minister for Education Ong Ye Kang recognises the need to nurture individuals to take on new roles in the Smart Nation.

Emerging Technology Forum (ETF) - 18th September 2018!

Prof Lim Ee Peng was invited to give a keynote lecture on "Smart Cities for Smart Citizens" at the “Emerging Technology Forum (ETF)” during MediaTek’s Innovation Day on 18th September 2018! Prof Lim shared about how the use of Data Science can uncover knowledge and insights in different forms, structured or unstructured, while Smart City and Smart Nation, on the other hand, are using sensors, information, and information technologies to address today’s and future municipal and social challenges. The keynote discussed on the research and application opportunities of using data science to create new and smart services for people living in highly urbanized cities and nations, which is an important aspect of smart city/nation efforts.

The purpose of Mediatek’s Innovation Day was to encourage engineers to learn new things, technology or innovation that are happening in the world beyond what we are doing every day. The Innovation day aims to equip everyone to learn what impact or changes AI can bring to the society and to become a smart city / nation.

一联通应用新增查找停车位等功能

负责社区事务署的文化、社区及青年部长傅海燕表示，除了一联通手机应用，当局也正与新大合作测试新的“HelpBuddy”众包应用，让社区伙伴或居民公开社区活动资料，鼓励居民参与。这个应用试行成功后将融入一联通应用内。

Know what you're eating at your fingertips with FoodAI™

Scan and get information on a range of food available in Singapore food markets. FoodAI™ by Dr Steven Hoi offers the cutting-edge food image recognition technologies for advancing AI in food and healthcare, which is powered by the state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. Try the demo at http://foodai.org/.

Dr. Palakorn Achananuparp will be giving a talk at the Research Integrity Conference on 22 October 2018

Over the past quarter of a century or so, Singapore, with strong Government support, has become a major centre for research and the ‘go to’ place for such endeavours in South East Asia. Research in Singapore ranges from biomedicine and engineering through to the natural sciences and mathematics, to the arts, humanities and social sciences.

LARC will be participating in TECHINNOVATION 2018 on 18-19 September 2018

TECHINNOVATION is a premier technology-industry brokerage event organised by IPI. It brings together international and Singapore technology providers and seekers to explore technology and business collaboration opportunities through open innovation. In its seventh year since its inception in 2012, it has grown to become a leading conference and exhibition in Singapore that focuses on the matching of industry’s needs to enabling technologies.

AI CAN PULL THE STRINGS AND FIND ONE A LIFETIME COMPANION

Viola AI, AI Singapore and SMU have formed a strategic partnership to help revolutionise the match-making industry using a robust AI matching recommendation engine that leverages on Lunch Actually Group’s existing model. As part of this collaboration, SMU will conduct a research project to feed data to the personality match engine model that incorporates thorough review on spouse selection and family formation and lead the various focus groups and surveys on the sociology and technical aspects on matching.

大学生欠经验？新加坡大学生毕业找工作难，如何提高竞争力

新加坡管理大学的生活全息数据研究中心推出新的求职平台Wheregotjobs，帮助求职者就近觅职，使用定位资讯查寻心仪地点的就业机会。

Prof Archan Misra invited to give a talk at the International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth, 7-9 March 2018

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of two broad thematic areas: Digital Earth and Network Science. Prof Archan Misra talk on the topic "Fusing Urban Mobility & Social Media for Human-Centric ‘Smart City’ Insights". In this talk, he demonstrated the concept of socio-physical analytics, which fuses such transportation-derived urban mobility data with social media sensing (via platforms such as Twitter & Foursquare) for a variety of new human-centric smart city insights and services.

Role of AI in Singapore’s Smart Nation plan shared at SMU AI conference

SMU Provost Prof Lily Kong highlighted how the roots of AI research in SMU started many years ago in its various labs: its Living Analytics Research Center (LARC), LiveLabs Urban Lifestyle Innovation Platform and Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering Corporate Lab (UniCEN).

Best Paper Award (DH2018)

LARC just won a best paper award (Does Journaling Encourage Healthier Choices? Analyzing Healthy Eating Behaviors of Food Journalers)at the ACM Digital Health Conference 2018!

The 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Management held in Singapore

Invited Talk

Talent Flow Behaviour Analytics: A Data Driven Approach to Human Capital Management

Singapore Management University Living Analytics Research Centre comes up with new invention to learn about photography on food.

Pulse of the Smart Nation

“A Smart Nation is one that is capable of identifying citizens’ needs, in order to create or adapt services to meet these needs,” Professor Lim Ee Peng, Director of the Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) at the Singapore Management University (SMU), told TechNews.

Invited Talk

Ee-Peng LIM, Personalized Participatory Nation Through Data Analytics, International Forum 2016 on THEME “KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND DATA IN OPEN ACCESS SOCIETY”, Tsukuba City, Japan.

Building Smart Cities, Brick By Digital Brick

Alongside concrete, granite and steel, digital technologies have now become an integral part of a city’s foundations, said keynote speakers at the 2017 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Read more from Asian Scientist Magazine at: https://www.asianscientist.com/2017/12/features/smart-cities-urban-digitization/

面對困境　新加坡看長台灣看短

新加坡和台灣同樣深陷「低成長」泥淖──短短幾年，出口昏迷、景氣急凍、經濟成長率跌破二。種種壞消息卻絲毫不動搖「新加坡有限公司」長期以來的轉型佈局。 過去，它受惠於得天獨厚的地理位置；如今卻從頭打造自己在數位經濟版圖上的戰略地位。從基礎設施、人才培訓、投資環境等方方面面入手，新加坡企圖建構全球最完善的數位經濟大平台，讓中、美、東協都能超越政治因素，「力用」新加坡。

Machine Learning is transforming healthcare

Food image recognition enables smart food logging—people can capture photos of their daily food intake and monitor their eating behaviours.

SUPERCOMPUTER SUPPORTS SINGAPORE AL RESEARCH – GovernmentWare 2016

SMU has become the first organisation in Singapore and Southeast Asia to deploy an NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning supercomputer. Deployed at the SMU Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC), the supercomputer will further research on applying artificial intelligence (AI) for Singapore's Smart Nation project. One of the featured projects is a food AI application to achieve smart food consumption and healthy lifestyle, which requires the analysis of a large number of food photos.

Exhibition Showcase. Singapore International Cyber Week – GovernmentWare 2016

Supercomputer Supports Singapore AL Research

21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2016) – Best Paper Award

Our heartiest congratulations to Professor Wei CHEN, Assistant Professor Feida ZHU, Professor Lei ZHAO and Professor Xiaofang ZHOU who was presented the Best Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2016), in Dallas, Texas, with their paper “When Peculiarity Makes a Difference: Object Characterisation in Heterogeneous Information Networks.

Theme Park Navigation Applications

Researchers from the Singapore Management University have developed two mobile applications to enhance visitors’ experience in a large leisure setting, such as a theme park or museum. Both technologies were developed by Prof Lau Hoong Chuin, Mr Fan Chun Pong and Ms Elizabeth Lim from Singapore Management University’s Living Analytics Research Centre. Their research was funded by NRF through the International Research Centres in Singapore funding initiative, under the Interactive Digital Media Strategic Research Programme.
 

Open Data in Singapore

The government’s open data portal (data.gov.sg) houses data sets from 71 government ministries and agencies, including over 350 data sets related to health originating from the Health Promotion Board, Health Sciences Authority and Ministry of Health. Singapore has also used the data portal as a means for catalyzing citizen engagement around available data, though, for example, the Data in the City Visualization Challenge, which asked citizens to tell “your Singapore story using data.” As Professor Ee-Peng LIM, Director of Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University, describes, “Singapore is heading toward an effort to use both public and private enterprise data to innovate her economy as well as her society. This is currently the mindset of the government, as well as the nation.

A ‘Closed’ Social Media Perceived To Be Less Critical

SMU Living Analytics Research Centre Director Professor LIM Ee-Peng noted that there were 275 social media posts a day during the election season and the number of political blog posts did not increase significantly after the GE2015 result announcement. After the GE2015 result announcement, there were a large proportion of emotional posts that contain at least some ranting expressions and expletives.

DBS, SMU Launch Joint Lab for Social Media Analytics

DBS Bank and Singapore Management University (SMU) have joined forces to operate a research lab that is trying to uncover new digital consumer trends amid social media. The Life Analytics Lab, employed a team of about 10 researchers to process data gleaned from platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The research will be driven by the analytics capabilities SMU developed from its Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC), which was formed in 2011 through funding by the National Research Foundation.

Ask Tech in Asia: Has technology changed the Singapore General Election?

Technology removed restrictions on accessibility to media, making content generation much easier, sometimes even crowdsourced. The sheer number of online blogs can also be quickly gauged by looking at the number of news sources and articles built by a team of researchers from Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University for this General Election.

Campaigning in Cyberspace

Social media has helped to generate interest and draw crowds to rallies during the 2011 election campaign but it is playing an even bigger role this time, with platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, and even news portals. At Singapore Management University, Professor of Information Systems and Director of Living Analytics Research Centre, Professor LIM Ee-Peng and his team has been monitoring the Twitter traffic of Singaporeans and netizens during the 2011 polls and the current campaign on how much attention paid to respective political user accounts and how netizens shared information via Twitter.

GE2015 Analytics

Living Analytics Research Centre from Singapore Management University has developed an analytic software that aggregates General Election 2015 related content posts from more than 200 blogs. According to the current set of posts, the most discussed topics are “Campaigning”, “Cost of Living” and “Immigration”.

General Election 2015 Analytics

GE2015 Analytics (http://research.larc.smu.edu.sg/ge2015/) is a software system created for Singaporeans and others interested in the 17th General Election of Singapore. GE2015 Analytics aggregates all relevant blog and mainstream media posts from few hundreds sites in real-time, extracts politician names, party names, constituencies, and political issues as facets automatically, and supports a search interface using a faceted approach. The blogs were identified in collaboration with the Institute of Policy Studies (National University of Singapore). This system is developed by the Living Analytics Research Centre located in Singapore Management University. For any questions related to this system, please contact larc [at] smu.edu.sg.

Last updated on 03 Dec 2019 .