SMU has been awarded a grant by the Ministry of Law to develop the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) as a research centre demonstrating thought leadership on international dispute resolution. SIDRA used to be a subsidiary of the Singapore Academy of Law and the Singapore Mediation Centre, and with its transition to SMU, it will embark on the projects to further advance research on dispute resolution and mediation.
Project Title: National Satellite of Excellence in Mobile Systems Security and Cloud Security Supported by NRF, the National Satellite of Excellence in Mobile Systems Security & Cloud Security aims to develop a technology pipeline that would address the mobile system security and mobile cloud security needs for real-time monitoring/decision systems used in critical smart nation applications. It will focus on research in the following core competencies:
- Privacy-preserving access and search of encrypted data
- Privacy-preserving computation over encrypted data
- Applications of privacy-preserving technologies in in-home elderly monitoring systems
This project will pioneer new capabilities in real-time, ultra-low power, pervasive sensing (e.g., tracking a user’s pointing gestures with cm-level accuracy), by building technologies that enable a collection of resource-constrained wearable and cheap IoT devices to collaboratively execute complex machine intelligence tasks. The research will advance Singapore’s capabilities in areas such as smart manufacturing and smart cities.
With the data market growing at an exceptional pace, more sophisticated strategies using machine learning techniques have been introduced to conduct economic forecasting. Awarded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), under the MAS Financial Sector Development Fund, this project aims to develop a pedagogical framework for forecasting economic activities, through reviewing and identifying complementarities between the two disciplines – conventional econometric methods and machine learning techniques.
This is a continuation of the collaboration with Chuo University for their research project, which aims to clarify the diversity of legal systems in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on three specific areas – civil law (focused on business transaction), dispute resolution, and data privacy.
Through regression analyses of longitudinal and panel data, this project aims to have a better understanding of how the recent wave of relaxing listing requirements, especially the removal of "one share one vote" rule, affect shareholders and other stakeholders on a global scale through investigating the situation in Hong Kong and Singapore.
In recent years, increasing amount of rich and informative data have become available and these big data are helpful in establishing cause and effect relationships in empirical research. However, the use of big data is not without challenges. This project seeks to tackle these new challenges that applied economists encounter with the use of big data, through improving three widely used causal inference methods in modern economics.
The project seeks to understand the extent to which religion can enable or disenable the integration of migrant and nonmigrant communities from different religious traditions. Through such an understanding, the project hopes to identify the extent to which new religious pluralisms exist in Singapore, how they manifest across different religious groups, and the strategies deployed by different religious groups to manage them.
This research aims to determine if mediated settlements for family cases are more durable than those that were litigated or uncontested, by examining data on how frequently parties return to court to seek variation of orders or new orders. The research will also examine factors that may affect the durability of settlements, with the aim to contribute towards the shaping of effective court policy concerning mediation in family cases.
As part of an ongoing research collaboration between SMU and the Singapore Academy of Law’s Future Law Innovation Programme, this research project aims to chart the state of legal innovation in Asia-Pacific, examine where Singapore lies on the chart, and communicate Singapore’s legal innovation efforts to the world. This would benefit legal technology efforts in Singapore as well as the legal industry in general through raising the Singapore’s profile as a legal innovation hub.
