Student Best Paper Award at ICCAS2020

Ph.D. students Mr. Zilong Cheng, Ms. Xiaoxue Zhang, Research Fellow Dr. Jun Ma, supervised by Professor Tong Heng Lee from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering won the Student Best Paper Award at the 2020 20th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS2020).

The award recognizes innovative research conducted by the team, on an optimization algorithm related to the singular model predictive control problem. Eleven papers are selected in the finalists, and five papers are finally awarded.

The paper titled “Semi-Proximal ADMM for Model Predictive Control Problem with Application to a UAV System” outlines how the singular model predictive control problem can be solved in an innovative paradigm and applied for control of a UAV system. In this work, a novel optimization method is proposed to cater to the lasso MPC problem, which admits higher accuracy and higher efficiency than the interior-point method, especially for the lasso MPC problem with singular weighting matrices. Specifically, the MPC optimization problem is transformed into a convex form and solved by the ADMM method effectively.

mBot Workshop 2022

The NUS ECE Department organized the mBot Workshop on 2 and 5 December 2022. 56 students from various junior colleges and high schools (Dunman High School, Hwa Chong Institution, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, Nanyang Junior College, NUS High school of Math and Science, Raffles Institution, River Valley High School) participate in this 2-day workshop. During

Young Researcher Award at the 2022 International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM)_Ph.D. student Mr. CHIEN Yu-Chieh

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Mr. CHIEN Yu-Chieh, supervised by Associate Professor Ang Kah-Wee from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Young Researcher Award at the 2022 International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM). The SSDM Young Researcher Award is awarded to the first authors of excellent papers presented at the previous

First demonstration of a secure quantum network with untrusted quantum devices

An international team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and LMU Munich (LMU) have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated a new form of quantum key distribution (QKD) that is secure even if the users are not privy to the underlying quantum hardware. The work, paving the way for a more secure