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SMU School of Computing and Information Systems Dean Professor Pang Hwee Hwa is preparing the School to meet industry demands for technically proficient professionals with a big-picture view.

Faculty Awards & Achievements
Congratulations to our esteemed faculty

for their outstanding achievements and holistic contributions!

✨ Prof Robert H. DENG - Zhongni Distinguished Educator Award 
✨ Senior Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN - Most Promising Teacher 
✨ Associate Prof TAN Kar Way - Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Professional Programmes
✨ Associate Prof WANG Hai - Excellent Teacher 
✨ Associate Prof Kyong Jin SHIM - SMU-X Excellent Teacher 

in photo (R-L) with SCIS Dean Prof Pang, at the Appreciation Lunch and Awards Ceremony 2025, jointly organised by SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence and SMU College of Graduate Research Studies.

SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
Postgraduate Professional Master of IT in Business
SMU Master of IT in Business Ranks 2nd in Asia, 24th Globally

The SMU MITB maintains its ranking amongst 164 programmes across 31 locations in the 2025 QS Global Master’s in Business Analytics Rankings.

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February 2023
JCST Outstanding Reviewer Award 2022
was awarded to:
Associate Prof Chris POSKITT

from the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). 

This award is for 10 outstanding reviewers selected from 1350 JCST reviewers who conducted peer review in 2020-2022, based on the quality, quantity and timeliness of their reviews.

Awards Faculty
January 2023
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2022
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate TRAN Nhu Thuat

from the Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC).

Awards Postgraduate Research Students
December 2022
Runner-up for 2021 Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
MSc (Computing) Graduate ANG Wei Yang
Associate Prof SHAR Lwin Khin

from the IEEE Computer Society, for the paper, “COVID-19 One Year on – Security and Privacy Review of Contact Tracing Mobile Apps”

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
December 2022
Best Paper in Track & Nominees for Best Overall Conference Paper Award
was received by:
PhD Graduate ZHANG Hao
Associate Prof GUO Zhiling [formerly until June 2023]
Mingzheng Wang

at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2022), for the paper, “Personalized Recommendation for Balancing Content Generation and Usage on Two-Sided Entertainment Platforms”

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
December 2022
Best Paper in Track & Nominees for Best Overall Conference Paper Award
was received by:
PhD Graduate ZHANG Hao
Associate Prof GUO Zhiling [formerly until June 2023]
Mingzheng WANG

at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2022), for the paper, “Personalized Recommendation for Balancing Content Generation and Usage on Two-Sided Entertainment Platforms”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
December 2022
Distinguished Paper Award Honourable Mentions
was received by:
Chen Gong
PhD Graduate YANG Zhou
Yunpeng Bai
PhD Candidate SHI Jieke
Arunesh Sinha
PhD Graduate XU Bowen
OUB Chair Prof David LO
Xinwen Hou
Guoliang Fan

at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022), for the paper, “Curiosity-Driven and Victim-Aware Adversarial Policies”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
November 2022
ISSRE 2022 Test-of-Time Award
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate THUNG Ferdian
PhD Graduate WANG Shaowei
OUB Chair Prof David LO
Prof JIANG Lingxiao

at the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022), for the paper, “An Empirical Study of Bugs in Machine Learning Systems”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
November 2022
NRF Investigatorship, Class of 2023
was awarded to:
OUB Chair Prof David LO

from the National Research Foundation (NRF), for the project, “TrustedSEERs: Trusted Intelligent Work Bots for Engineering Better Software Faster” 

Awards Faculty Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

January 2026
Best Polyglot Hack was awarded to AUNG Ye Thant Hein; Zane CHEE Jun Yi; TAI Wei Sin; Htet Shwe Win THAN;

at the Hack&Roll (NUS Hackers' annual 24-hour hackathon).

January 2026
Top 9 Hacks was awarded to FAN Chong Yee; Natthida LIM; NG Xuan Wei; Sidharth RAJESH;

at the Hack&Roll (NUS Hackers' annual 24-hour hackathon).

January 2026
2nd Runner-Up was awarded to Brandon KOH Wei Sheng; Jeric TOH Bing Hui; SUNDARAM RAMASUBBU Raksha; YIAM Jun Bin; Sidney ANG Yan Jie;

at the Build for Impact 2026 Hackathon.

Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards

November 2025
1st was awarded to Sathwik CHILUVERU;

at the NCS Sunshine.AI Hackathon 2025.

October 2025
1st was awarded to TAI Wei Sin; Htet Shwe Win THAN;

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2025.

October 2025
2nd was awarded to Isaac PUA Jin Lit; Julian Dominic LIAW;

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2025.

Recent Postgraduate Research Publications with Awards

January 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award was awarded to
PhD Graduate YANG Zhou
;

from the ACM SIGSOFT for his dissertation “Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code”.

November 2025

Recent Postgraduate Research Student Awards

December 2025
DSO-AISG Incentive Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate 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 Candidate RUAN Shaolun
;

from Google, in the Quantum Computing category. 

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

December 2024
2024 ByteDance Scholarship was awarded to
PhD Candidate SUN Zhensu
;

from ByteDance

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 Prof 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

December 2025
ACM Distinguished Member 2025 was awarded to
Associate Prof 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.

October 2025
Top Reviewer was awarded to
Assistant Prof Djordje ZIKELIC
;

at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

Top 10% of the reviewers at NeurIPS 2025.

October 2025
SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients was awarded to
Prof Robert H. DENG
;
Senior Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN
;
Associate Prof TAN Kar Way
;
Associate Prof WANG Hai
;
Associate Prof Kyong Jin SHIM
;

in photo (R-L) with SCIS Dean Prof Pang, at the Appreciation Lunch and Awards Ceremony 2025, jointly organised by SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence and SMU College of Graduate Research Studies.

For the award categories,

  • Prof Robert H. DENG (Zhongni Distinguished Educator Award)
  • Senior Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN (Most Promising Teacher)
  • Associate Prof TAN Kar Way (Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Professional Programmes)
  • Associate Prof WANG Hai (Excellent Teacher)
  • Associate Prof Kyong Jin SHIM (SMU-X Excellent Teacher)

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.

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 Prof 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.