Past Events

It’s a hybird event!  Join us for an hour with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Sigl, his take on Post-Quantum Cryptography!  Virtual Participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88145777828?pwd=Q0w1SC9QUS81cm0vanUzSFNLZWtuZz09 Meeting ID: 881 4577 7828 Passcode: 766739 In Person Participation: CREATE Tower, Level 2 Gallery  Singapore 138602 Register HERE   Abstract: In July 2022 the North American standardization organization NIST has announced first winners of their PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) competition and announced an extension at the same time. This will initiate a major transition in the cryptographic algorithms used in our daily life over the next years. The talk will start with some background why PQC is needed and about the threats of quantum computers for classical cryptography. After a summary of the results of the NIST competition, the talk will focus on hardware acceleration, which has been accompanying the NIST standardization process. We have contributed to this process tightly coupled accelerators integrated into a RISC-V 32-bit processor, which combine medium performance and power gain with low resource overhead and high flexibility. This enables lattice based PQC schemes even on low cost and low performance microcontrollers. As alternative to lattice based algorithms, SIKE has been proposed as alternate candidate and will be investigated further in the extended competition. Its advantage are short key and message lengths, but it suffers from high computation times. This forces the use of hardware accelerators. The talk presents results of our chip designs in 65nm and gives an outlook at our new design in 22nm.   Biography of Prof. Georg Sigl Georg Sigl finished his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Technical University Munich in 1992. Afterwards he held several positions in research and development at Siemens and Infineon. From 2000 until 2010 he was responsible for the development of new secure microcontroller platforms in Infineon’s Chip Card and Security division. Under his responsibility, two award winning platforms have been designed. In June 2010, he founded a new chair for Security in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technical University of Munich. In parallel, he is driving embedded security research as director at the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC Munich. His research interests include cryptographic implementations, side-channel and fault attacks, physical unclonable functions, hardware reverse engineering, and hardware-software security codesign.  

Professor Oliver Hayden, Technical University of Munich, leads a team of highly interdisciplinary scientists for the NRF project “CellFACE – Imaging-based Flow Cytometry for Hidden Haematology Biomarker”. CellFACE is funded by NRF aiming for hidden blood cell biomarker. Using a point-of-care technology combined with a clinically-acceptable workflow the team will provide functional hematology information to the clinical routine for the benefit of patients. A demonstration where the engineering & clinical partner from NUHS, NTU, NUS, A*Star, and TUM is scheduled on April 6th at 11 am.

Professor Oliver Hayden, Technical University of Munich, leads a team of interdisciplinary scientists for the NRF project “CellFACE – Imaging-based Flow Cytometry for Hidden Haematology Biomarker”. “CellFACE” is a method to apply label-free high-throughput quantitative phase imaging flow cytometry for next generation hematology analyzer. The Team focuses on non-logistically stable biomarker which require technological solutions for point-of-care applications and clinically-acceptable workflow.

This year, a virtual CREATE Symposium was held on 1 December 2020.   Organized by the Future Urban Mobility (FM) IRG of the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART), TUMCREATE and Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) of the Singapore ETH-Centre (SEC), the topic of the symposium focused on Mobility and Transportation. It featured high-level presentations that showcased the achievements from three CREATE mobility programs (SMART-FM, TUMCREATE, SEC-FCL) and potential impact of the research.   TUMCREATE’s presentations centred around the topic ‘Towards the Ultimate Public Transport System’. Three representatives from the various research teams presented their research and achievements that build toward a more convenient, connected, and efficient public transport system. The speakers include Dr Andreas Rau, Principal Investigator of Rapid Road Transport, Dr David Eckhoff, Principal Investigator of Area-Interlinking Design Analysis, and Prof Thambipillai Srikanthan, NTU-Programme Director of TUMCREATE and Programme Principal Investigator of Sensing and Management for Agile Transport. Dr Andreas Rau kicked off TUMCREATE’s presentation by introducing the DART (Dynamic Autonomous Road Transit) concept. With the proposed vision of DART, he explained how some of the relevant research and technologies can already be applied with the potential to improve our current bus system. He shared about T.NODE, the concept of Virtual Right-Of-Way and the success story of the PUTW (Precast Ultra-Thin Whitetopping) pavement system.   Dr David Eckhoff was the second speaker from TUMCREATE and he continued with an interesting talk on modelling and simulation. He highlighted the features of CityMoS (City Mobility Simulator) and demonstrated its application for the Cooling Singapore project and FLEDGE. He also revealed some very exciting collaborations that utilise the capabilities of the simulation platform, establishing CityMoS’ value for wide applications.   As the final speaker to conclude the presentation from TUMCREATE, Prof Thambipillai Srikanthan gave a very insightful look into the team’s innovation on camera sensors, using AIoT technologies, that are able to enhance law enforcements on the roads. He shared on the ongoing field trials in NTU for the camera sensors and the various positive results achieved.   A panel session with the speakers, moderated by Prof Robert Bertini, was held after the presentations from all three programs. The session quickly led into an engaging discussion with the participants on several matters on mobility and transport.    We would like to thank everyone who has participated in the symposium.

In order to meet the requirement of the Paris Agreement to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all energy industries and services would need a complete restructure and move toward renewable energy. The transformation from a fossil fuel to a renewable based energy system requires the development of new energy carriers. While the role of electricity as final energy carrier is rising, many processes will still require chemically bound energy carriers.   Prof Thomas Hamacher spoke at the CREATE PI Seminar on the development of new energy carriers with the German P2X-Kopernikus project.       Introducing the German P2X-Kopernikus project, Prof Hamacher pointed out that the central task of the project is to develop new energy carriers in the context of the whole value chain. The process is complete by an intense road-mapping process to deliver advice for future political process. He discussed the major research questions and approaches, and presented the concept of energy parks to the audience.   Focusing on Singapore, Prof Hamacher talked about bridging a collaboration between Singapore and Germany on the research, further establishing the close relationship between the two countries. He then concluded with an emphasis that the development of new green fuel is a global effort and would need international collaborations in order to keep cost low, and start defining standards at an early stage of the development.   About Prof Thomas Hamacher After studying physics in Bonn, Aachen and Columbia University (New York), Prof Thomas Hamacher received a doctorate from the University of Hamburg for his work on baryonic beta decay. Prof Hamacher has been with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics since 1996, most recently as head of the Energy and System Studies Group. From 2010 to 2013, he served as acting head of the Chair of Energy Management and Application Technology. In 2013, he was appointed Full Professor for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems.   Furthermore, he is Director of the Munich School of Engineering. Prof Hamacher is a member of the Environmental Science Centre (WZU) of the University of Augsburg. His research is focused on energy and systems analysis. Major topics are urban energy systems, the integration of renewable energy into the power grid and modern microgrids. A special focus is on so called sector-coupling. Other focuses of his work are the methods and fundamentals of energy models and new optimization methods.

The CREATE Symposium, with a theme centered on Climate Change, was held on 6 December. The symposium featured keynote speakers and a series of presentations that focused on 3 sub themes: 1) Mitigation, 2) Adapting to Climate Change and 3) Policy and Planning.   Prof Thomas Hamacher from TUMCREATE spoke at the CREATE Symposium on Mitigation.   Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, from the production of energy, remain to be one of the main challenges when it comes to tackling Climate Change. As Singapore is committed in reducing its GHG emissions, Prof Thomas Hamacher noted that a radical reduction of GHG emissions in the country would require the import of green energy. He then proceed to highlight the options and potentials in developing renewable energies and suggested how Singapore could be an import hub for green fuels in the region. He then concluded by urging for international relations to form synergies and initiate projects.     Researchers in TUMCREATE also submitted a poster on the environmental impacts of electrification and automation of public transport buses in Singapore using Life Cycle Assessment. The poster presented the impacts in terms of Global Warming Potential and Particulate Matter Emissions and provided clear indications on the mitigation potential from the electrification of buses. Through the votes of guests at the symposium, the poster was awarded the People’s Choice Poster Award.     TUMCREATE is honoured to be a part of this meaningful symposium to address and share our knowledge on Climate Change.