SMU, A*Star and Fujitsu announced that they will be investing S$54 million to set up an Urban Computing and Engineering Centre of Excellence in Singapore to address challenges urbanised cities face. SMU will be contributing its expertise in methods and software systems for planning, scheduling and decision making. Certain research projects will include SMU graduate and doctorate students. SMU President Professor Arnoud De Meyer said that the collaboration will help them further strengthen their “expertise to make sense of data at scale with analytics, to use data to better understand, model and predict human behaviour, and to create intelligent decision-making support tools for urban and maritime-related resource planning and allocation.”