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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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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).

Awards Research (Publications) Postgraduate Research Students
September 2024
Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Krishnendu Chatterjee
Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshad
Mehrdad Karrabi
Assistant Prof Djordje ZIKELIC

at the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2024) for the paper, “Sound and Complete Witnesses for Template-based Verification of LTL Properties on Polynomial Programs”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
September 2024
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
was awarded to:
Wen SONG
Xinyang CHEN
Qiqiang LI
Assistant Prof CAO Zhiguang

from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for the paper, “Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling via Graph Neural Network and Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
July 2024
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Reviewer Award
was awarded to:
Associate Prof Christoph TREUDE

at the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2024).

This is awarded to 12 of the 189 PC members of the technical research track.

Awards Faculty
July 2024
Distinguished Reviewer Award
was awarded to:
Associate Prof Christoph TREUDE

at the 1st ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware). 

The award is awarded to 4 of the 50 PC members of the technical research track.

Awards Faculty
June 2024
Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2024
was awarded to:
Anders TAN

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 2024
Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2024
was awarded to:
TAI Shi Ling

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
May 2024
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Shaojun CAI
Ashwin RAM
Zhengtai GOU
Mohd Alqama Wasim SHAIKH
Yu-An CHEN
Yingjia WAN
Assistant Prof HARA, Kotaro
Shengdong ZHAO
David HSU

at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) for the paper, “Navigating Real-World Challenges: A Quadruped Robot Guiding System for Visually Impaired People in Diverse Environments”

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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