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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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December 2024
Best Full Paper Award
was awarded to:
Lecturer LAU Yi Meng
Assistant Prof KE Ping Fan

from the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Blockchain Innovations and Technologies (AIS SIGBIT) at the 13th SIGBIT Workshop on Information Technology and Systems on Web3 Ecosystem and Artificial Intelligence (Bangkok, Thailand) for the paper, “A Community-Driven Framework to Evaluate Factors Influencing NFT Buyers”.

The best paper among the 11 presented full papers in the workshop. 

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
December 2024
Fellow of Web Intelligence Academy
was awarded to:
Lee Kong Chian Prof TAN Ah Hwee

from the Web Intelligence Academy (WIA). The WIA promotes the advancement of science, engineering, and technology by recognizing and honoring the leading intellectuals, scholars, researchers, and practitioners who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the field of Web Intelligence (WI). 

In 2024, seven individuals around the globe have been awarded WIA fellowship in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the advancement of web intelligence.

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

from the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).

Awards Undergraduate Students
November 2024
Student Volunteer Recognition Programme (SVRP) - Silver Award
was awarded to:
Zara TEO Xiao Xuan

from the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).

Awards Undergraduate Students
November 2024
Best Paper Runner Up Award
was awarded to:
Gauri Jain
Prof Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM
Haifeng XU
Aparna TANEJA
Prashant DOSHI

at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2024) for the paper, “IRL for Restless Multi-armed Bandits with Applications in Maternal and Child Health”. 

Only 2 of 543 submissions receive the award.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
November 2024
NUS Distinguished Computing Alumni Award 2023
was awarded to:
OUB Chair Prof David LO

from NUS School of Computing. 

To recognise NUS Computing alumni whose endeavours in their chosen fields or professions are worthy of recognition and have brought honour to the University/School.

Awards Faculty
November 2024
2024 Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards
was awarded to:
Assistant Prof MA Dong
Assistant Prof DENG Yang

Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards are focused on supporting exceptional computer science research in the region. Through this program we also intend to strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.

For their papers,

  • Dong Ma, Singapore Management University
    Enabling Diverse Tiny Model Selection on Microcontroller-based IoT devices
  • Yang Deng, Singapore Management University
    Robust and Efficient Alignment for Integrity in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2024
INFORMS Outstanding SIG Paper in Urban Transportation
was awarded to:
Guodong Lyu
Wang-Chi Cheung
Chung Piaw Teo
Associate Prof WANG Hai

at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Multiobjective Stochastic Optimization: A Case of Real-Time Matching in Ride-Sourcing Markets”. 

The INFORMS TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

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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