RP’s partnership with Starhub started in 2014 and further deepened in 2017, with the opening of the RP-Starhub Data Analytics Lab, a facility set up to facilitate applied research and development work for data analytics between academic institutions and the industry. The lab also aimed to enrich our students’ knowledge and interest in data analytics.

A suite of activities ranging from sharing sessions by data scientists to work attachments have since taken place at the lab. Students from School of Infocomm have also been able to use the lab’s facilities to conduct detailed research for their internships and final-year projects – focusing on topics of the moment such as applied machine learning to URL classification and common interest segmentation engines from social networks.