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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
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:
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
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Junwei Zhang
Xing Hu
Shan Gao
Xin Xia
OUB Chair Prof David LO
Shanping Li

from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), at the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations on Software Engineering (FSE 2025), for the paper, "Less Is More: On the Importance of Data Quality for Unit Test Generation".

Awards Faculty 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

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.