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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 2025
IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Associate Editor (2024-2025)
was awarded to:
Guansong PANG
Assistant Prof

from the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS).

The award recognizes very selective Associate Editors (AEs) whose exceptional contributions, professionalism, and dedication have played an important role in the continued growth and reputation of TNNLS in the year of 2024-2025. 

Awards Faculty
December 2025
DSO-AISG Incentive Award
was awarded to:
LIM Jia Peng
PhD Candidate
Sidney TIO Xi Rong
PhD Candidate

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).

Awards Postgraduate Research Students
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.

Awards Undergraduate Students
November 2025
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
LYU Yunbo
PhD Candidate
YANG Zhou
PhD Graduate
SHI Jieke
PhD Candidate
Jianming Chang
LIU Yue, Research Scientist, Research Lab for Intelligent Software Engineering, SMU SCIS
David LO
OUB Chair Prof

from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, '"My productivity is boosted, but …" Demystifying Users’ Perception on AI Coding Assistants'.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
November 2025
2025 Test of Time Award
was awarded to:
LIM Ee Peng
Prof
Viet-An Nguyen
Nitin Jindal
Bing Liu
Hady W. LAUW
Associate Prof

at the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2025) for the paper, “Detecting product review spammers using rating behaviors”.

The Test of Time Award is given for CIKM papers published at least ten years ago, and that have had an important and sustained impact on the research community. Each year, only 1 or 2 papers are selected for the award.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
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.

Alumni Awards Undergraduate Alumni
November 2025
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Kai Huang
Jian Zhang
XIE Xiaofei
Assistant Prof
Chunyang Chen

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, “Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair”.

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished papers are given to at most 10% of the papers accepted at an ACM SIGSOFT-sponsored conference.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
November 2025
1st
was awarded to:
Sathwik CHILUVERU

at the NCS Sunshine.AI Hackathon 2025.

Awards Undergraduate Students at Competitions

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

February 2026
Top 3 (Individual Category) was awarded to Anson KOH Guang Wei;

at the DG Sprints Vibe Coding Challenge by GovTech Singapore.

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).

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
YANG Zhou
PhD Graduate
;

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

November 2025
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
LYU Yunbo
PhD Candidate
;
YANG Zhou
PhD Graduate
;
SHI Jieke
PhD Candidate
;
Jianming Chang; LIU Yue, Research Scientist, Research Lab for Intelligent Software Engineering, SMU SCIS;
David LO
OUB Chair Prof
;

from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, '"My productivity is boosted, but …" Demystifying Users’ Perception on AI Coding Assistants'.

Recent Postgraduate Research Student Awards

December 2025
DSO-AISG Incentive Award was awarded to
LIM Jia Peng
PhD Candidate
;
Sidney TIO Xi Rong
PhD Candidate
;

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
RUAN Shaolun
PhD Candidate
;

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
SUN Zhensu
PhD Candidate
;

from ByteDance

Recent Postgraduate Professional Alumni Awards

August 2025
2025 Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) List Honourees was awarded to
LIM Yean Sam
MITB Graduate
;
SUN Qianru
Associate Prof
;
Ratnadira WIDYASARI
PhD Graduate
;

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
JEYARAMAN Brindha Priyadarshini
EngD Graduate
;

at the Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2025.

Recent Faculty Awards

December 2025
ACM Distinguished Member 2025 was awarded to
Hady W. LAUW
Associate Prof
;

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.

December 2025
IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Associate Editor (2024-2025) was awarded to
Guansong PANG
Assistant Prof
;

from the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS).

The award recognizes very selective Associate Editors (AEs) whose exceptional contributions, professionalism, and dedication have played an important role in the continued growth and reputation of TNNLS in the year of 2024-2025. 

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

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

Top 10% of the reviewers at NeurIPS 2025.

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
LIM Yean Sam
MITB Graduate
;
SUN Qianru
Associate Prof
;
Ratnadira WIDYASARI
PhD Graduate
;

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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