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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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July 2025
Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
Di Zhang
Jian Gang Jin
Associate Prof WANG Hai

at the 16th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS 2025), for the paper, "Multi-terminal berth allocation with vessel rerouting and container transfers via shuttle vessels".

This is best paper award for the annual international workshop on computational transportation science. One of the most prestigious conferences on transportation intersects with optimization and computing.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
July 2025
Most Influential Paper Award
was awarded to:
Xinli Yang
OUB Chair Prof David LO
Xin Xia
Yun Zhang
Jianling Sun

at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2025) for the paper, “Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction”.

The award is given on a ten-year basis to authors of papers published at QRS ten years ago that were judged to have the greatest impact on the theory or practice of software quality, reliability, and security in the ten years since its initial publication.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
July 2025
Best Student Paper Award
was awarded to:
Xiaohan Wan
Yang Wang
Assistant Prof XUE, Haiyang
Mingqiang Wang

at the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP2025), for the paper, “Unbounded Multi-hop Proxy Re-encryption with HRA Security: An LWE-Based Optimization”.
 

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
July 2025
Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2025
was awarded to:
Kevin QUAH

from Tatler Asia.

The Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow recognises individuals across seven countries and territories in Asia, who are making a positive impact.

Alumni Awards Undergraduate Alumni
June 2025
Outstanding Poster
was awarded to:
Research Scientist YU Xingtong
Associate Prof FANG Yuan

at the 1st CCF Graph Machine Learning Conference, for the poster, "Towards Graph Foundation Model: Multi-domain Pre-training and Multi-task Adaptation"

Awards Faculty Research (Publications) Research (Publications)
June 2025
2nd Place
was awarded to:
Nuwan Bandara
Assistant Prof Thivya KANDAPPU
Vice Provost (Research) Prof Archan MISRA

at the 5th International Workshop on Event-based Vision (CVPRW), hosted by CVPR 2025, for the challenge, “Event-Based Eye-Tracking Challenge (CVPRW)”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
June 2025
FSE2025 Test-of-Time Award
was awarded to:
OUB Chair Prof David LO
Thomas Zimmermann
Nachiappan Nagappan

at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025) for the paper, “How practitioners perceive the relevance of software engineering research”.

The Test of Time Award is given annually recognizing highly influential papers published ten years ago.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
May 2025
Young Business Leader of the Year Award
was awarded to:
Aaron TAN

at the Singapore Business Awards 2025.

Alumni Awards Undergraduate Alumni

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

November 2025
Finalist (Student Category) was awarded to Zara TEO Xiao Xuan;

at The Cybersecurity Awards 2025 by the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).

In its eighth year, The Cybersecurity Awards 2025 seeks to honour outstanding contributions by individuals and organisations, to local and regional cybersecurity ecosystems.

May 2025
Top 10 Asia Young Women Rising Tech Stars 2025 was awarded to Crystal Layla LUI;

at the Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2025.

November 2024
Student Volunteer Recognition Programme (SVRP) - Bronze Award was awarded to Axel TAN Xian Lin;

from the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).

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

October 2025
Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate MA Xiao
;
Xinger HUANG; Yiran SHEN;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.

The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).

October 2025
Best Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate PHAM Hung Manh
;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.

The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop. 

Recent Postgraduate Research Student Awards

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

September 2024
Winner of SMU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 2024 was awarded to
PhD Graduate Ratnadira WIDYASARI
;

organised by SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS).

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 Research Awards

October 2025
Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate MA Xiao
;
Xinger HUANG; Yiran SHEN;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.

The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).

October 2025
Best Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate PHAM Hung Manh
;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.

The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop. 

Recent Faculty Awards

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.

September 2025
SMU Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award 2025 (Capabilities Pillar) Winner was awarded to
Associate Prof WANG Hai
;

from the SMU College of Integrative Studies (CIS).

SMU CIS which oversees the SMU Core Curriculum, has established these awards to recognise outstanding faculty members and adjunct instructors who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and a strong commitment to student learning within the Core Curriculum. Each academic year, awardees are selected for each of the three pillars of the Core Curriculum - Capabilities, Communities and Civilisations. Recipients of three consecutive teaching awards are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

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.

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