Wearables have altered our relationship with exercise, but how do they also impact the other pillar of healthy living — eating right? ⌚🏃🏃‍♀️🍽️ 🥘

NUS Computing Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli & her team examine if mobile health apps have impacted eating behaviour and health outcomes in users, such as weight loss. 📲

➡️ nus.edu/3bbf8Gm

To all the mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day! 💐

The ubiquitous presence of cameras like CCTV cameras and mobile phones has resulted in an explosion of images and video data. While these visual data present advantages, they come with a cost: potential breach of privacy and confidentiality, particularly for information related to human posture and actions.

Join Associate Professor Robby T. Tan, as he discusses the technical challenges and the possible solutions to predict human 3D poses from videos, in a free webinar organised by N-CRiPT and SGInnovate.

🗓️ Wed, 12 May
⏰ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at https://www.sginnovate.com/events/human-3d-pose-estimation-videos-challenges-and-solutions

Selamat Hari Raya to all our Muslim friends, students, and colleagues!

CONGRATS to our student Li Qinbin for winning the PREMIA Best Student Paper Gold Award! 🎉
Qinbin worked with NUS Computing Assoc Prof He Bingsheng on a new federated learning framework for Gradient Boosting Decision Trees that prevents data 'leaks' by sharing gradients, instead of raw data, between devices.

➡️ nus.edu/2S3KWX2

Don't forget to sign up for our upcoming tech webinar on education technology and AI!👇

What will future education technology look like? Will we see an AI robot in the classroom in the future? Join our panellists as we discuss the rise of edtech and what it means for the education sector.

Panellists:
🎤Mr Yee Jenn Jong, education entrepreneur
🎤 NUS Computing Associate Professor Ben Leong

📌Can the teacher be replaced by a robot?

🗓 Fri, 21 May 2021
⏰ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at bit.ly/techweb5

All are welcome!

Learn more about blockchain, bitcoin and decentralisation at this free webinar organised by the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme (SBIP).

🗓️ Tue, 25 May
⏰ 3:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at https://sbip.sg/Analyzing-Bitcoin-Decentralization-From-An-Asset-Perspective/

Not only have robots 'grown' smarter, they have also popped up in homes, shops, and hospitals. 🤖 🏠 🛒 🏥 With Artificial Intelligence set to invade our lives in ever increasing degrees, it is vital for them to be designed carefully so that they can work synergistically with people. Learn how NUS Computing Professor Leong Tze Yun is making AI more human-aware, so that these robots can interact and collaborate effectively with humans.

➡️ nus.edu/2RzWZva

GOOD NEWS: Asst Prof Reza Shokri and his co-authors have won the prestigious IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award 2021!

They received the award for their paper on quantifying location privacy, which was presented at the IEEE Security and Privacy symposium in 2011. In the study, they proposed a formal framework for quantifying the privacy risks of sharing location data, and evaluating the effectiveness of privacy-preserving algorithms.

The Test-of-Time Award recognises research papers that have made a broad and lasting impact on both research and practice in computer security and privacy. Congrats!

➡️ nus.edu/3fit4kk

Our very own Uncle Soo was recently featured in NUS News! Read about his passion for teaching computer science, and the challenges and rewards of teaching👇

➡️ nus.edu/2QSOpHE

Assistant Professor Reza Shokri was recently awarded the VMware Early Career Faculty Award, a grant program that recognises the next generation of exceptional faculty members from universities all over the world. Congrats, Dr. Shokri!

➡️ nus.edu/3p64BlB

Imagine being stuck in a foreign country for a year during the pandemic! 😱 What would you do? Find out more about NUS Computing alumnus Ray Suen's adventures in Buenos Aires, Argentina! 🇦🇷

➡️ bit.ly/rax-in-argentina

Crowdsourcing: harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to attain a common goal.

When you need help, you are almost guaranteed to find a ready army online, volunteering information.💡However, you may receive the same ideas repeatedly from different people. Enter Assistant Professor Brian Lim and his team, who have come up with an algorithm called Directed Diversity to get people to generate more diverse and creative ideas.

➡️ nus.edu/3g9Eciz

Can smart earphones be used to measure a person's manner of walking (i.e. gait)? 🤔 🚶‍♀️Join NUS Computing's Dr Terence Sim and learn how a person's gait may be used for various purposes such as improving one's health, and for continuous authentication.

📅Fri, 18 June
⏰3pm - 4pm SGT (GMT +8)
➡️ Sign up for free at https://www.sginnovate.com/events/what-does-your-walking-reveal-about-you

This webinar is organised by N-CRiPT and SGInnovate.

We're so proud of NUS Computing alumnus Thiru (Business Analytics, Class of 2018), who created this crowd-sourced overlay on Google Maps that highlights digitally disadvantaged hawkers struggling to survive during the pandemic. That's what we hope all our students do when they head out into society - empower the world with tech!

(P.S. Anyone keen to share their ideas or help in any way with the map are welcome to reach out to Thiru, who goes by waffleboy92 on Reddit.)

➡️ https://mothership.sg/2021/06/disadvantaged-hawkers-online-map/

CONGRATS to Assoc Prof Ilya Sergey for winning the Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2021!

The paper describes a new deductive program synthesis technique that solves a long-standing limitation faced by existing approaches, through the use of cyclic proofs.

➡️ nus.edu/3gbqkWc

Learn about federated learning for mobile networks at this free tech webinar by the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme (SBIP)!

📅 Wed, 23 June
⏰ 10am SGT
➡️ Sign up for free at https://sbip.sg/Reliable-Federated-Learning-for-Mobile-Networks

It isn’t easy for physicians to diagnose a rare disease, much less identify diseases that can co-exist simultaneously with it. 🩺 🦠 Find out how NUS Computing Asst Prof Vaibhav Rajan and his team tackle the problem of building predictive models for rare diseases by integrating knowledge from biomedical literature.

➡️ nus.edu/3qcHsOL

Look out for these robots on campus beginning July, if you're ordering in from UTown 🤖

➡️ https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/foodpanda-use-robots-deliver-food-nus-ntu-and-punggol