About Us

• LARC Vision
• The SMU - Carnegie Mellon Partnership
• LARC Funding
• LARC and Singapore's National Analytics Initiative

• Research grant funds from the Singapore’s Interactive & Digital Media (R&D) Programme Office. These funds come from Singapore’s National Research Foundation.
• Contributions from SMU, which includes in-kind contributions as well as financial contributions.
• Contributions from Carnegie Mellon, which are comprised of in-kind contributions.
• Contributions from external organizations, which can be in the form of financial or tangible in-kind investments.

The collaboration has received a S$26 million grant over five years from the National Research Foundation in Singapore. This fund is managed through the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by Media Development Authority of Singapore. With SMU and CMU committed to cash and in-kind contributions, and third party funding, the S$60 million centre will establish Singapore as one of the world’s pre-eminent centres of excellence in computational social science.