Dr Kenneth Lim Yang Teck attends 4 international conferences, facilitates a UNESCO workshop, and obtains approval for a full-scale deployment on his work on Data Science and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Learning

Dr Lim Yang Teck Kenneth, Senior Education Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) shared how his students, Vincent Kwok and Wang Zerui, helped Physical Education (PE) teachers from Deyi Secondary School through the design and testing of a custom hardware solution at the IEEE International Conference on Omni Layer Intelligent Systems, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 4 to 6 August 2025. The sharing of Dr Lim's students was titled 'Lightweight inertial guidance and mapping algorithm' and described how - through an invitation extended to Dr Lim from the school - his students worked alongside PE teachers to understand their needs for evaluating the performance of students at Deyi Secondary during PE lessons. Dr Lim's students developed a lightweight and robust deep learning method for pedestrian dead reckoning, which they named 'LiDRNet'.

On 8 August 2025, Dr Lim and his students, Nguyen Pham Huu Binh and Vu Doan Gia Phong, also shared their work on 'Exploring the relationship between sleep quality and microclimate with the Internet of Things' at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications, held in Antalya, Türkiye. In their collaboratively authored paper, Dr Lim's students shared how they investigated the impact of environmental factors—light, dust level, sound, temperature, and humidity—on sleep stages (Awake, InBed, Core, Deep, and REM).

Dr Lim and his students, Ong Jun Yit and Aaron Wong, had the opportunity to share their work on their student-initiated Artificial Intelligence (AI) project during the 15th International Conference on Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies, held from the 25 to 27 August 2025 in Vienna. Their work was themed on the "Design and development of a student-initiated automated delivery system for potential use in e-commerce".

On 27 August 2025, Dr Lim and his students shared their work on using Machine Learning (ML) and AI in predicting the growth of Chinese spinach at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society. The conference was held in Birmingham where Dr Lim's students, Harold Chang and Chai Shao Yang, read a paper on how they applied AI and ML to address a problem with potentially significant long-term implications, namely sustainable agriculture in the face of population growth. During the same event, Dr Lim also represented Associate Professor Edward Park from the Humanities & Social Studies Education Academic Department in sharing their jointly conceptualised intervention in which Dr Lim applied a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) to help students from A/P Park's class to learn foundational concepts in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Dr Lim and his team member, Alan Tan, were invited by UNESCO to facilitate a workshop themed on AI and the Futures of Learning at the 3rd Annual Digital Learning Week, held in Paris from the 2 to 5 September 2025. Dr Lim and Mr Tan co-facilitated together with Associate Professor Alexandra Okada of the Open University UK. The workshop was hosted by the Futures of Learning and Innovation, UNESCO.

Dr Lim and his team’s work on Data Science and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Learning has been approved by the Curriculum Planning & Development Division of the Ministry of Education for continued piloting in schools through 2026 with a view to full-scale deployment from late 2026 onwards. In this endeavor, Dr Lim will be working alongside the Division and a third-party private technology vendor to take the approach of ERFP 03/23 LYTK in to schools in Singapore in support of learning activities co-designed in collaboration with teachers and MOE officers.