“Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning”

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Prof. Dr. Stefan Lessmann, Economic Faculty / Chair of Information Systems

National University of Singapore: Associate Prof Ying Chen, Department of Mathematics

Innovative research initiative designed to advance the application of quantum computing within the realm of reinforcement learning (RL), a method of machine learning where an algorithm learns to make decisions by attempting to maximize a non-differentiable reward function.

 

"BUA-NUS South Asian Studies Initiative"

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, Institute for Asian and African Studies

National University of Singapore: Dr. Priyam Sinha, South Asian Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The project is focused on cross-cutting themes in the social and cultural sciences and is seeking funding opportunities for future collaborations. It aims to expand the academic network in the field of gender, media and diversity studies research within the BUA network.

 

“Ethics of Psychedelic-assisted Therapies”

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Dimitris Repantis, Consultant Psychiatrist Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

National University of Singapore: Prof Brian Earp, Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

The partnership aims to foster exchange about the ethics of psychedelic-assisted therapies

 

“Wisdom and Global Philosophical Traditions”

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Joseph Bjelde, Institut für Philosophie

National University of Singapore: Matt Walker, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Yale-NUS College

For a discipline nominally picked out by its attitude to wisdom, philosophy today has very little to say about wisdom. That neglect is remarkable, and the general aim of this project is to begin rectifying that neglect.