Seed Grant Call

Call for Proposals

TL@SUTD Seed Research Programme

TL@SUTD would like to announce the First call for SEED Proposals in 2025. For this call, the focus is to seed ideas to explore innovation in data and information exploitation.

Areas of Research:

1. Explainable AI for Knowledge Discovery
2. Security and Safety of Machine Learning Model
3. Pre-training of multilingual model for resource poor languages
4. Inference Optimisation of Small Foundation Model
5. Agentic AI approaches
6. Others related to Data and Information Exploitation

Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with joint Principal Investigators who are professors or researchers in SUTD. The research project may involve graduate and/or undergraduate students.

Eligibility

This seed research program is open to faculty in SUTD. Research work under the project shall be carried out in SUTD.

Funding

Each seed research project may be funded up to S$100,000. It may include manpower cost, direct expenses such as equipment, materials and facility charges.

 Project Duration

The duration of the seed research project is up to twelve (12) months. The project must commence within one (1) month upon acceptance of the award. Failing to do so may result in the award being rescinded

Submission Process

Interested applicants are to submit the completed proposal (using the template provided) electronically by 1Mar 2025. Late or incomplete submission will not be considered.

If you have any questions pertaining to the grant programme, please email to tl_seed@sutd.edu.sg.

Schedules for TL@SUTD Seed Research Program Call for Proposals