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

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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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October 2026
2026 SMU Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award - Winners
was awarded to:
Associate Professor Hady W. LAUW

at the SMU Annual Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony 2026, from the College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS), SMU.

The Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award (OGSA) is a university-level award to formally acknowledge, inspire, and encourage excellent mentorship, and to recognise supervisors’ contributions in nurturing the next generation of future scholars, thought leaders, and game changers.

Awards Faculty SMU Teaching Excellence Awards
October 2026
2026 SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients
was awarded to:
Associate Professor Chris POSKITT
Lecturer Pius LEE

at the SMU Annual Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony 2026, from the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), SMU.

For the award categories,

  • Excellent Teacher - Associate Prof Chris POSKITT
  • Most Promising Teacher - Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN

The SMU Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the significance of teaching as a complex and multi-faceted profession. These university-level awards honour faculty members for their holistic contributions to peer development, student development, innovative instructional approaches, effective pedagogical practices and course design. SMU is also committed to adopting processes that promote gender equity in the recognition of teaching excellence.

Awards Faculty SMU Teaching Excellence Awards
September 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate SONG Shiwen
Research Scientist, RISE XIONG Yiheng
PhD Candidate KONG Jiaolong
Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei

et al. at the 35th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026), for the paper, “Characterizing and Repairing Obsolete Android GUI Tests under UI Evolution”

 

 

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
September 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate CHENG Mingfei
Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei
Research Scientist, RISE QUAN Lili

et al. at the 35th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026), for the paper, “Are We Stuck? Modeling and Detecting Deadlocks in Multi-Autonomous Vehicle Systems”

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

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

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 Faculty Awards

October 2026
2026 SMU Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award - Winners was awarded to
Associate Professor Hady W. LAUW
;

at the SMU Annual Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony 2026, from the College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS), SMU.

The Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award (OGSA) is a university-level award to formally acknowledge, inspire, and encourage excellent mentorship, and to recognise supervisors’ contributions in nurturing the next generation of future scholars, thought leaders, and game changers.

October 2026
2026 SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients was awarded to
Associate Professor Chris POSKITT
;
Lecturer Pius LEE
;

at the SMU Annual Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony 2026, from the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), SMU.

For the award categories,

  • Excellent Teacher - Associate Prof Chris POSKITT
  • Most Promising Teacher - Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN

The SMU Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the significance of teaching as a complex and multi-faceted profession. These university-level awards honour faculty members for their holistic contributions to peer development, student development, innovative instructional approaches, effective pedagogical practices and course design. SMU is also committed to adopting processes that promote gender equity in the recognition of teaching excellence.

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).

 

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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