Artificial Intelligence

A scientist has solved the conundrum of why robots struggle to pick tomatoes

GNSS Indonesia Summit & Expo 2025, the first international-scale GNSS forum in Indonesia, was successfully held from 19–23 November 2025 at Universitas Indonesia, Depok. This five-day event highlighted how global navigation satellite systems are becoming increasingly crucial across various sectors, including transportation, precision agriculture, disaster mitigation, environmental monitoring, and national digital transformation.

A research group led by Associate Professor Islam MD Parvez and Professor Kenji Hato of the Graduate School of Agriculture at Ehime University has developed "Hort-YOLO," a real-time monitoring system for horticultural crops. This system is an advanced object detection network focused on accurate and context-aware analysis of crops, and simultaneously achieves a balance between annotation speed and scalability of supervised learning, making it practical for deployment in real-world environments.

Prof Song Yongduan, Dean of the School of Data Science and Chair Professor of the Division of Industrial Data Science at Lingnan University, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). The result was announced today (21 November), naming him one of the 24 newly elected foreign academicians for 2025. The honour recognises Prof Song’s outstanding contributions to control science and engineering at the international level.

When labelled scans are scarce and hospitals collect images in different ways, a new training recipe developed by SUTD researchers helps segmentation AI keep its bearings across domains without needing more annotations.

On November 17th, Lingnan University’s Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) and The University of Sydney’s Educational Innovation (EI) Team co-hosted a pivotal seminar titled “The Transformation of Global Higher Education Learning Pedagogies: Harnessing the Innovation and Technology Revolution”. With an attendance of approximately 300 participants, both in person and online, the event highlighted the urgency to rethink and revolutionise educational practices to adapt to the AI era.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to better train doctors via personalising learning experiences, simulating clinical scenarios and supporting research. Yet, there are human, financial and resource-based barriers to its adoption. Healthcare institutions, medical schools, industry partners and government bodies need to work together to develop responsible and effective solutions.

Three distinguished scholars from Lingnan University have been named Highly Cited Researchers 2025 in the annual list compiled by leading global analytics company in academia and research Clarivate. The list is of exceptional researchers who have demonstrated significant and wide-ranging influence in their respective fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers reflecting their substantial contributions to advancing innovation and addressing global challenges.

The University of Osaka D3 Center and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) have jointly commenced a demonstration aimed at the application of a wide-area distributed campus AI processing platform that enables on-demand use of GPU’s from compute servers. This demonstration will leverage NEC's "ExpEther," a technology that transmits signals from IT equipment with high reliability and low latency, to build a high-performance AI processing platform that can connect and disconnect compute servers and GPUs on-demand, even when they are in different buildings across campus.

Dr Rodrigo emphasized that AI in education must be grounded in culture—responsive to students’ lived experiences, classroom realities, and national contexts.

“The Development and Testing of a Virtual Patient for Philippine Medical Education” was presented in front of policymakers, industry professionals, and leaders from academia on the second day of the two-day conference.

Today, 1 November, Lingnan University held its Information Day “Your Future Begins Now” for undergraduate admissions, introducing a new flexible arrangement offering more tailored study pathways for Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) applicants with diverse talents. The hybrid event featured over 70 interactive sessions with the latest information on programmes, admissions requirements, and study guidance, so as to familiarise secondary school students and parents with campus life. Highlights included AI-focused lectures presented by the Departments of Chinese, Philosophy, and Translation, and Lingnan scholars also demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) proposes innovative approaches on traditional Chinese culture, ethical decision-making, and language learning.

Researchers from SANKEN at The University of Osaka have successfully developed a groundbreaking “self-evolving” edge AI technology that enables real-time learning and forecasting capabilities directly within compact devices. This innovation, termed MicroAdapt, achieves unprecedented speed and accuracy. It processes data up to 100,000 times faster and achieves up to 60% higher accuracy compared to conventional state-of-the-art deep learning methods. This achievement represents a major advance toward next-generation real-time AI applications across manufacturing, automotive IoT, and medical wearables, addressing critical limitations of existing cloud-dependent AI.

SINGAPORE, 29 October 2025 – TechInnovation 2025, organised by IPI Singapore, returns from 29–31 October at Sands Expo & Convention Centre and is expected to bring together over 4,000 attendees from more than 40 countries. The event features 100 emerging “Tech Offers” spanning artificial intelligence, HealthTech, sustainability, circular food innovation, and advanced manufacturing.

Kuala Lumpur, 28 October 2025 - Day 1 of the World AI Show – Malaysia, by Trescon, concluded with resounding success, drawing over 1500+ business leaders, policymakers, investors, and innovators to DoubleTree by Hilton Kuala Lumpur. The summit opened as Malaysia’s definitive platform for AI collaboration - uniting public and private stakeholders committed to advancing the nation’s digital economy.

28 October, Singapore – Terrapinn announces the 10th anniversary edition of EDUtech Asia, Asia’s largest and most influential education event, taking place on 5 - 6 November 2025 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore. Under the theme “Positive disruption: unlocking limitless potential in education with AI and tech,” the event will bring together more than 8,000 education leaders, policymakers and technology innovators to explore how AI is transforming learning while ensuring that human connection, purpose and equity remain at the heart of education.

- Paper and custom LiDAR dataset to be revealed at ICCV 2025, one of the leading global conferences in CS

The 46th global edition of Trescon’s flagship AI series begins tomorrow at DoubleTree by Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, bringing together 1000+ business leaders, policymakers, investors, and innovators from around the world.

The regulatory directions of Agentic AI systems and Open-Source AI have become hot topics globally. In light of this, Lingnan University and the University of Bologna in Italy co-hosted the 2nd International Workshop on Technologies for AI Governance (TAIG) from 25 to 26 October, as part of the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025). The workshop brought together numerous world-leading experts, academics, and policymakers, aiming to enhance governance in areas such as AI risk assessment, accountability tracking, and safety assurance, and to foster cross-regional exchange on AI governance between Asia and Europe. The two-day event attracted over 150 academics and students.

The official plaque unveiling ceremony of Asia’s first UNU Hub on Humanitarian Innovation and Technology at Lingnan University (UNU Hub at Lingnan University) was held today (25 Oct), marking a new milestone in advancing international collaboration between Lingnan and the United Nations. The ceremony was officiated by Prof Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, together with Mr Ernest Chan, Vice-President (Administration) of Lingnan University.

As Artificial intelligence (AI) gradually becomes integrated into artistic creation, how can traditional artistic and cultural values be preserved and passed down? Organised by the Faculty of Arts of Lingnan University, the Lingnan Arts Biennale 2025, “Metamorphoses”, opened officially today, 24 October, at The Box, Freespace of the West Kowloon Cultural District, bringing together creative forces from multiple disciplines to explore the relationships between life, technology, and culture through forms such as dance, opera, music, and the digital arts. The event is open to the public free of charge, and audiences are invited to consider the significance of art and cultural inheritance in this digital age.

Nature and The Estée Lauder Companies celebrate a Senior Lecturer pioneering AI-driven research in plant diversity and sustainable agriculture, and an NGO bringing science education to underserved youth in Pakistan.

Lingnan University and Shenzhen Das Intellitech Company Limited (Das Intellitech), a leading company specialising in the research and application of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today, 23 October. This collaboration will use artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and IoT technologies to advance smart building and low-carbon development initiatives. The two parties will establish a pre-eminent international research laboratory to promote academia-industry-research collaboration, green innovation, and the development of smart city solutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, particularly in sustainable carbon-neutral technologies.

- Development of an AI method that enables efficient large-scale model training while protecting personal information with only a single model transmission - Overcomes previous limitations of computational cost and overfitting… expected to be applied in medical image analysis - Research results published in Medical Image Analysis, October 2025, a top-tier journal in the field of medical image analysis

DeePFAS, a novel deep-learning model, streamlines large-scale non-targeted screening of "forever chemicals" (PFAS) by projecting raw MS2 spectra into a latent space of chemical features, offering a rapid, AI-driven solution to replace complex traditional analysis.

A research team led by Associate Professor Tomoya Kataoka at Ehime University, in collaboration with Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., and Wageningen University’s Associate Professor Tim van Emmerik, has developed AI software using deep learning to detect, classify, and track plastics flowing in rivers. The system automatically estimates transport volumes from video data, supporting continuous monitoring and advancing understanding of land-to-sea plastic transport. The findings appear in Water Research.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (14 October 2025) – The World AI Show is gearing up for its 46th global edition, set for 28–29 October 2025 at DoubleTree by Hilton, Kuala Lumpur. Following the announcement of MDEC as Strategic Partner, the summit now proudly welcomes the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) as its Strategic Investment Partner.

SUTD researchers have developed a streamlined life cycle assessment method that makes environmental evaluation faster, cheaper, and more accessible to product designers without compromising reliability.