Computing @ SMU
Creating Our Digital Future

The School of Computing and Information Systems is the only SMU school offering research and education programmes in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.

Computing @ SMU
Creating Our Digital Future

Our Vision
A premier computing school recognized globally for excellence in research, education, and societal impact

Our Mission
Create the digital future for business and society through research, education, and partnership

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August 2026
First Runner-Up
was awarded to:
Alister CHONG Yong Xi
Oliver GOH Xuan Yu
KHOO Kar Xing

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2026.

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
August 2026
First Place
was awarded to:
William HANSEL
LEOW Yap Yong
WANG Chongyu

at the Tencent Cloud “AI CAN DO IT” Hackathon Age Well Social Good Challenge

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
August 2026
First Runner-Up
was awarded to:
Ben AW Yong Keen Weng
Benjamin CHAI Yao Onn
Kelvin CHIK

at the Batam Singapore Hackathon 2026

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
July 2026
First Prize
was awarded to:
Kayra Zalfa ALIMAA (pictured third from right)

Part of the winning team at the International Quantum Computing Hackathon for Social Good (QC4SG).

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

August 2026
First Runner-Up was awarded to
Alister CHONG Yong Xi; Oliver GOH Xuan Yu; KHOO Kar Xing;

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2026.

August 2026
First Place was awarded to
William HANSEL; LEOW Yap Yong; WANG Chongyu;

at the Tencent Cloud “AI CAN DO IT” Hackathon Age Well Social Good Challenge

August 2026
First Runner-Up was awarded to
Ben AW Yong Keen Weng; Benjamin CHAI Yao Onn; Kelvin CHIK;

at the Batam Singapore Hackathon 2026

Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards

August 2026
First Runner-Up was awarded to
Alister CHONG Yong Xi; Oliver GOH Xuan Yu; KHOO Kar Xing;

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2026.

August 2026
First Place was awarded to
William HANSEL; LEOW Yap Yong; WANG Chongyu;

at the Tencent Cloud “AI CAN DO IT” Hackathon Age Well Social Good Challenge

August 2026
First Runner-Up was awarded to
Ben AW Yong Keen Weng; Benjamin CHAI Yao Onn; Kelvin CHIK;

at the Batam Singapore Hackathon 2026

Recent Postgraduate Research Publications with Awards

July 2026
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights was awarded to
PhD Graduate YANG Chengran
;
Ting Zhang;
PhD Graduate ZHOU Xin
;
Haoye Tian; Mingzhe Du;
Research Engineer SHI Jieke
;
PhD Student CHEN Junkai
;
Yikun Li;
Associate Professor OUH Eng Lieh
;
Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin
;
Vice Provost (Research) Prof David LO
;

at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "SeCuRepair: Semantics-Aligned, Curriculum-Driven, and Reasoning-Enhanced Vulnerability Repair Framework".

The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.

April 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Graduate YANG Chengran
;
PhD Candidate SUN Zhensu
;
PhD Graduate KANG Hong Jin
;
Research Engineer SHI Jieke
;
Vice Provost (Research) Prof David LO
;

at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Think Like Human Developers: Harnessing Community Knowledge for Structured Code Reasoning". 

Top 1-2% of all submissions (less than 10% of all accepted papers).

Recent Postgraduate Research Student Awards

April 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Graduate YANG Chengran
;
PhD Candidate SUN Zhensu
;
PhD Graduate KANG Hong Jin
;
Research Engineer SHI Jieke
;
Vice Provost (Research) Prof David LO
;

at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Think Like Human Developers: Harnessing Community Knowledge for Structured Code Reasoning". 

Top 1-2% of all submissions (less than 10% of all accepted papers).

December 2025
DSO-AISG Incentive Award was awarded to
PhD Graduate LIM Jia Peng
;
PhD Candidate Sidney TIO Xi Rong
;

and is a joint initiative between AI Singapore (AISG) and DSO, designed to inspire post-graduate students to explore research related to large language models (LLMs).

October 2025
2025 Google PhD Fellowship was awarded to
PhD Graduate RUAN Shaolun
;

from Google, in the Quantum Computing category. 

His research interests include Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction.

Recent Postgraduate Professional Alumni Awards

August 2025
2025 Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) List Honourees was awarded to
MITB Graduate LIM Yean Sam
;
Associate Professor SUN Qianru
;
PhD Graduate Ratnadira WIDYASARI
;

Organised by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), in partnership with SG Women in Tech and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). 

The list recognises and celebrates women based in Singapore who have been inspiring and have made significant contributions to the tech industry.

May 2025
Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders 2025 was awarded to
EngD Graduate JEYARAMAN Brindha Priyadarshini
;

at the Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2025.

Recent Research Awards

July 2026
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights was awarded to
PhD Graduate YANG Chengran
;
Ting Zhang;
PhD Graduate ZHOU Xin
;
Haoye Tian; Mingzhe Du;
Research Engineer SHI Jieke
;
PhD Student CHEN Junkai
;
Yikun Li;
Associate Professor OUH Eng Lieh
;
Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin
;
Vice Provost (Research) Prof David LO
;

at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "SeCuRepair: Semantics-Aligned, Curriculum-Driven, and Reasoning-Enhanced Vulnerability Repair Framework".

The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.

April 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Graduate YANG Chengran
;
PhD Candidate SUN Zhensu
;
PhD Graduate KANG Hong Jin
;
Research Engineer SHI Jieke
;
Vice Provost (Research) Prof David LO
;

at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Think Like Human Developers: Harnessing Community Knowledge for Structured Code Reasoning". 

Top 1-2% of all submissions (less than 10% of all accepted papers).

Recent Faculty Awards

June 2026
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award was awarded to
Assistant Professor Guansong PANG
;

at the The 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).

One of the most prestigious early-career awards in the KDD field, this award recognizes an individual within the first 10 years after their PhD for outstanding research contributions, leadership, and service, with at most one recipient (or none) selected each year; notable prior awardees include Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis (UCI, USA), Tanmoy Chakraborty (IIIT, India), Feida Zhu (SMU, Singapore), and Yang Yu (NanjingU, China).

 

December 2025
ACM Distinguished Member 2025 was awarded to
Associate Professor Hady W. LAUW
;

from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM has named 61 new Distinguished Members. 

All the 2025 inductees are registered members and were selected by their peers for significant technical achievements and/or volunteer service. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of the worldwide ACM membership for their technical achievements and/or service to the field.

December 2025
IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Associate Editor (2024-2025) was awarded to
Assistant Professor Guansong PANG
;

from the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS).

The award recognizes very selective Associate Editors (AEs) whose exceptional contributions, professionalism, and dedication have played an important role in the continued growth and reputation of TNNLS in the year of 2024-2025. 

Recent Alumni Awards

November 2025
SMU Alumni Awards 2025 was awarded to
Aaron TAN
;
Aditya LESMANA
;
Kelvin CHNG
;
LIN Fengru
;
Seyed Nazhath FAHEEMA
;

at the inaugural SMU Alumni Awards 2025 on 12 November 2025 at SMU Hall, with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam as Guest of Honour. 

Launched in celebration of SMU’s Silver Jubilee, the SMU Alumni Awards marked the University’s highest recognition of alumni achievement. To be conferred every five years, the Awards honour SMU alumni and associate alumni who have distinguished themselves through professional excellence, innovation, and service to society.

September 2025
Impact Leader Excellence Award - Individual was awarded to
Jeremy LEE
;

at the 2025 Sustainability Impact Awards, organised by The Business Times and UOB.

SMU alumnus Jeremy Lee received the award for advancing sustainable household solutions and cutting single-use plastics.

August 2025
2025 Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) List Honourees was awarded to
MITB Graduate LIM Yean Sam
;
Associate Professor SUN Qianru
;
PhD Graduate Ratnadira WIDYASARI
;

Organised by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), in partnership with SG Women in Tech and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). 

The list recognises and celebrates women based in Singapore who have been inspiring and have made significant contributions to the tech industry.

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