Speakers

Womenfest21-Speaker-Prof-Balaz
Balazs Zoltan Gulyas
Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Director, Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
President’s Chair in Translational Neuroscience, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)

Presentation Title: How to Raise Olympic Gold Medallist Children and be a World Leading Female Scientist at the Same Time?
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Rebecca Heaton
Assistant Professor, Visual & Performing Arts (VPA), National Institute of Education

Presentation Title: Locating the Arts in STEM Education

Wide debate surrounds the purpose, position and priority of the arts in STEM education. By drawing on examples from visual art, in culture, education and industry, this presentation invites you into this dialogue. Discussion is raised about the pedagogic contributions of art in STEM, the spaces which art can occupy in STEM learning and the level of rigor which art contributes to STEM education. Ambiguities around STEAM education are considered and the goals of STEAM education are questioned to open inter-sections of concern regarding the presence of art in STEM. Collaborative, community enhancing and connective projects, which utilise the arts as components of STEM and STEAM, are used to voice how arts’ presence in STEM and STEAM scholarship is a field of research gaining traction. 

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David Lallemant
Nanyang Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment

Presentation Title: Probabilistic Risk Analysis and the Promotion of Resilient and Equitable Communities
Disasters affect millions of people every year. Increasing evidence suggests that trends in global risk are increasing, due to a combination of climate change, particular patterns of urbanization, and ongoing or deepening economic and social vulnerabilities. To understand, quantify and manage risk and disaster impacts, experts from a number of disciplines produce information products such as hazard maps, post-disaster damage assessments and probabilistic risk models. These provide powerful new understanding of climate and disaster risks. However, while these have been successful at informing decisions at the scale of buildings and individual infrastructure, or designing insurance products, their impact on urban, regional or national planning has been limited. I will present some of my work to develop disaster analytics methods better suited for decision-making to promote resilient and equitable communities
Womenfest21-Speaker-Prof-Chun Yan
Miao Chun Yan
Chair, School of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering

Presentation Title: AI for 3H

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Setoh Pei Pei
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences

Presentation Title: Children’s Ideas about STEM

Pronounced gender disparities in career outcomes persist in certain domains, such as in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Along the pipeline, fewer women enroll in STEM programs, and even fewer women undertake professional roles in those fields. What causes these disparities? We investigate the possibility that these inequities have roots in development: Prevailing gender stereotypes may shape children’s aspirations, guiding them away from certain fields and toward others. In this research, we examined for the first time the association between children’s gender-brilliance stereotype and their career aspirations, and how such stereotypes may divert women away from many prestigious careers.