The latest AIS Lightning Talk was successfully held on November 25, 2025, with 20 faculty members and research postgraduate students engaged in a fruitful exchange of insights on recent research and projects.

Faculty from each of our Divisions presented a wide range of topics during this talk — covering music and sound studies, artificial intelligence and machine learning, sustainable finance, robotic assembly, and nuclear policy. Each presentation was followed by an interactive Q&A session, fostering scholarly discussion and interdisciplinary networking.

List of presentations:

1. “Field Recordings as Compositional Material in Recent and Upcoming Works” by Prof. Timothy PAGE, Assistant Professor of the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC)
2. “AI-Empowered Scientific Data Imputation, Compression, and Analysis” by Prof. HAN Jun, Assistant Professor of the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA)
3. “Corporate Decarbonization Commitments: Understanding Economic Incentives and Barriers” by Prof. Quentin MOREAU, Assistant Professor of the Division of Environment and Sustainability (ENVR)
4. “How Robots Could Transform the Way We Build” by Prof. WANG Ziqi, Assistant Professor of the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) and the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC)
5. “A machine learning-based method to verify that states do not conduct prohibited nuclear weapon testing” by Prof. Julien DE TROULLIOUD DE LANVERSIN, Assistant Professor of the Division of Public Policy (PPOL)