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A pop-up career fair by Chinese online travel giant Trip.com Group on the NTU campus in Boon Lay on April 16, where roles for AI engineers and data analysts were highlighted.
ST PHOTO: DARYL LOO
SINGAPORE/SHENZHEN – On a weekday afternoon in April, PhD students at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) were bundled onto buses and ferried to a Huawei research centre in Buona Vista for technical talks, chats with engineers, and what the company called informal networking.
A few kilometres away, at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Huawei was running an online career talk – conducted in Mandarin – pitching roles in AI algorithms, large language models and cybersecurity.

