Proposed projects

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Projects

<!=== Project(s) proposed by Standard Chartered === 1. Onsite personalization to maximize the digital engagement

The Digital use case is divided into two parts:

1) Journey evaluation : Study how users traverse the StanC website, understand the broken journeys, their option selection preferences, etc - by different segments, countries and products

a. Prepare an analysis which talks about how different users navigate on our website (major routes they take to reach their goals), what are the options they show more interest in, how many have journey breakages and why, etc

b. Propose recommendations to improve/smoothen the site navigation and prevent drop offs

c. How the above two vary by different user segments, their location, etc

2) Personalization : Predict the likelihood of a product transaction (eg cash payment, trade transaction, etc) at each step/page of the journey from the time a user lands on the website and recommend the next best click/clicks at that step (which can be shown as a pop up or a CTA) to optimize the conversions. - This would require participants to use the clustering techniques for customer segmentation and Machine Learning / Statistical modelling for predictive analysis

Data that will be provided : Google Analytics data from StanC’s Digital platforms (Web, Mobile, etc)

For further information, please contact Rahul Gupta (Rahul.gupta5@sc.com).-->

For more information, please contact Sky @ sky.lim@zhongguoremittance.com -->

Project(s) proposed by Property Guru

Project #1: CRE Insights

We are currently looking to build a database of Commercial Real Estate in the region (SG, MY, VN, TH, ID) with SG & MY being the priority. To enable this, we are exploring efficient, scalable ways to populate this dataset and keep it up to date. This calls for creative ways to obtain attribute data associated to the commercial properties, as well as potential engineering skills to implement those creative solutions.

The challenges we are facing are time and creativity. With regards to the creativity; and issue is for example when direct data is not available in a scalable matter, we will need to look for what scalable proxies are available that we can use to establish the same insights, and how we can implement them.

The deliverable is a dataset that is (as much as possible) automatically kept up to date.

It would require either standalone or a combination of data analytics/ data engineering / geospatial analysis/ operations automation. As part of this project, we would look to build one database for MY and SG commercial properties.

There are three key components:
1. Establish a database list of all commercial properties in Malaysia and Singapore (classified into categories; e.g. retail, industrial, etc.)
2. Enrich the list of commercial properties with attributes (see examples below)
o Part of this data will come from PropertyGuru, part of it will have to be obtained from public sources
o Key to success how to collect it in a scalable manner, and automatically keep it up to date
3. Create a GIS layer that holds polygons for these commercial properties


Subject to the skills of the teams, we can include/ exclude the steps above, but the main item we would like the teams to work on is item 2. A selection of envisioned attributes:
- Lot/ building ownership data (PG has transaction history available)
- Transaction history (PG has transaction history available)
- Building/ lot info
o Size
o Floors
o Land size
o Function (mall/ hotel/ office/ residential/ condominium)
o Materials used for construction
o Floorplans (e.g. from Mall website/ construction plans)
o Owner
o Ultimate owner
o Contact details of owner
o Tenants/ companies in directory
o Representation (incl. contact details)
o Lease dates
o Architect
o Developer

Projects proposed by School of Computing and Information Systems, SMU

Project 1: SCIS Upskilling Engagement System
As part of the holistic learning journey and to prepare students from SCIS and also the rest of the SMU student community, SCIS would like to provide Certification Classes, Prep Classes for upcoming terms, Introduction Workshops, Seminars and Industry/Career Talks.
This platform aim at bridging the interest of students in a certain topics with Instructors, Alumni and also industry partners to have the workshops or classes. The system should cater for proposal of classes from either the Students or Trainers, Registration for the classes, Maintenance of Classes details, Attendance Tracking, and notification to users of the system of new classes or updates.
The system will be used by both students and trainers.
We have run 2 iteration of the concept to verify on the flow and requirement.
Deliverables:
To Propose and ideate an engagement model to attract and increase the usage of the system
Design and Build a Working Prototype with the required functions above
Email: Joseph Sung (josephsung@smu.edu.sg)

Project 2: Career Skill Mapping Tool
With the rise of Skills based learning and Job recruitment, we would like to provide a platform for students and learners to explore on the courses to attend or take to acquire the skills require for a certain role.
The system will allow the learners to list out the courses, he/she have taken as a baseline of skills possessed. The system will then allow the learners to explore the description of the roles and the skills required. At this point, the user would have been able to identified the gap in the skills set. He/She would then be able to look at the type of courses offered by SCIS curriculum or Enrichment programme. They can also choose to track the options selected as a Learning Journey.
Learners should also be able to include new courses they have taken to increase their skill set.
Additional function is to be able to generate a list of skills either as a list of paragraph form to be included as part of the CV. (May be some form of research to form a more natural language way of presenting the output)
We have identified the pilot group of users and course offering to be the students of SCIS and Courses offered in SCIS.
The initial mapping of courses to skills and roles have been completed.
Deliverables: Propose and Develop a working prototype that can be deployed to the pilot group of users to collect initial feedback.
Email: Joseph Sung (josephsung@smu.edu.sg)

Projects proposed by Wyn Monde Pte Ltd

Project 1: Usability Analysis of Movement Analysis Software
Wyn Monde’s uses mainly technology from Contemplas GmbH (www.contemplas.com). The platform performs video capture and analysis on machine vision cameras and sensors to analyse human movement qualitatively and quantitatively. The platform allows manual analysis of movement and also utilises a markerless tracking algorithms to identify and track specific body landmarks. Although the platform’s functionalities are managing the data capture and analysis very well, users felt that the Graphical User Interface (GUI) is not “intuitive” thereby takes a longer time to learn and not fully able to exploit all the functionalities. The project team is to i) review the GUI design of this platform and assess its usability with qualitative and quantitative methods and ii) to propose a new GUI design that with quantifiable benefits and improvements.

Expected deliverables:
Qualitative Analysis. Use existing GUI design standards i.e. Nielsens, Microsoft to identify areas in which the current GUI are strong / weak in terms of usability. Potential weakness could be i) difficulty in accessing software functionality and ii) making frequent unintended mistakes to perform a task. The analysis should provide a matrics accompanied by recommendations for design improvements.
Quantitative Analysis. Develop a GUI evaluation methodology with users who are new to the platform and to measure the usability performance of the current GUI. The method should take into consideration i) the user’s ability to navigate in a totally new software, ii) native language and iii) age.
GUI Re-Design. Using the data points and learnings from the qualitative and quantitative analysis, the team is to propose a new structure for the GUI to reduce user errors and improve time to task completion.

This project is suitable for IS485 (IS Project Experience, Industry sponsored Research)

Contact: Davy Lim (davylim@wynmonde.com)

Projects proposed by Kinobi

Project 1: Resume Parser AI Evolution

Kinobi provides campus management systems to universities.One of our core products is career management features. As a part of a campus management system, the objective is to help students prepare for their dream job. One of the features from career management is the resume builder.
In this module, student create their resume in pre-defined format so no need to re-format, the objective is to save students' time while creating a professional resume. Currently students usually already have a resume, and they wish to import their resumes into our platform. We already have the feature to allow import the PDF but not not at its ideal state (the mapping is not matched, data not detected, etc, hopefully in this project can help Kinobi to improve the function.
Deliverables:
Create a resume parser through the use of AI, regular expression or a sweet mix of both. This parser has to accommodate for a realistic spectrum of resume document type & copywriting
Example #1: Different Resume Document Types

• Student A may use a Canvas generated resume, which is in an image format.
• Student B may use a PDF but the words are not well structured

Example #2: Different Copywriting across different sections of a resume

• To describe their working experiences, Student A uses Work Experience
  
• Student B uses Experience
  

Example #3: Different styles of a resume

• Student A uses 3 columns to segment their resumes
  
• Student B uses 2 columns
  

System is able to identify email, company name, date, country, etc
The resume parser can mapping the data to the right object (to our fields of resume) after uploaded into the platform
You can see all the fields of resume builder here https://app.kinobi.asia/resume
The solution needs as little maintenance as possible.
Ideally: the solution can self learn from its own set of data. Eg. In University A, there are 10,000 students. The more students upload their resumes, the more sample data the system can use as sample data. You have to consider how Kinobi/System itself can classify & train the data (Consider supervised training).

Project proposed by Willowmore

Willowmore is a leading Smart Access, IoT and Analytics company based in Singapore.

Example projects include:

Project #1: Centralised Integrated Facilities Management System

• Project Description/Goals: We will involve students in cutting edge development of a CIMS that will become an integral part of FM companies' operating systems. We are looking at aggregating services and data to enable automation and for FM companies to perform command and control operations from their operations center.
• Learning Opportunities: There will be opportunities for students to be involved in integration with various FM systems, using IoT solutions to enable sensing, using robotics to enable command and control - these scope will be subject to the buy-in from the end customers. Students will have the opportunity to pitch some of the ideas to our customers.
• Deliverables: To be defined together with the student team during initial discussions.
• Point of contact: Joseph Tey (joseph.tey@willowmore.com.sg)

Project #2: AI Powered Modules for WMSenseHub

• Project Description/Goals: Students will identify a pain point and use the latest development methods to code, train and tune AI engines that solve real world problems. This might be fall detection, obstruction detection, abnormal activity detection and AI Powered Dashboard.
• Learning Opportunities: Students will be challenged to dream big and we will guide them to leverage technologies to implement clever AI solutions to real world problems. They will work together with experienced AI engineers.
• Deliverables: To be defined together with the student team during initial discussions.
• Point of contact: Joseph Tey (joseph.tey@willowmore.com.sg)

Project #3: Cyber Security

• Project Description/Goals: Cyber security is critical to everything that we do. We are looking at getting students to understand the continuous process of VA and PT as part of the software development process.
• Learning Opportunities: Students will have hands on experience of performing Vulnerability assessments and Penetration testing using professional software solutions that they will be using. They will also learn about how these gaps can be fixed to ensure a robust cyber security approach to software development.
• Deliverables: To be defined together with the student team during initial discussions.
• Point of contact: Joseph Tey (joseph.tey@willowmore.com.sg)