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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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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
Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei
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 Undergraduate Students | Competitions
October 2025
1st
was awarded to:
TAI Wei Sin
Htet Shwe Win THAN

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2025.

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
October 2025
2nd
was awarded to:
Isaac PUA Jin Lit
Julian Dominic LIAW

at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2025.

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
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.

Awards Postgraduate Research Students
October 2025
Finalist for Best Paper Competition - Applied Track
was awarded to:
Minwei Kong
Ao Qu
Xiaotong Guo
Wenbin Ouyang
Yining Ma
Junyi Li
Han Zheng
Associate Professor WANG Hai
Cathy Wu
Jinhua Zhao

at the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics (DMDA) Workshop, for the paper, “Formulating Optimization Programs with Self-Improving LLM Experience Library”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2025
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Yang Jiao
Ruoting Sun
Rong Luo
Xiwen Yao
Xinran She
Assistant Professor HARA, Kotaro
Yuewen Zhang
Xinyi Fu

at the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025), for the paper, “Tactile Data Comics: Combining Step-by-step Presentation of Tactile Graphics with Verbal Narration for the Blind and Visually Impaired”.

The ASSETS' best honorable mention awards honor the top 5% of conference submissions.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

March 2026
Second Place was awarded to Zane CHEE Jun Yi; Darrius NG Jiing Heng; TAI Wei Sin; LOW Yin Jin;

at the LotusHacks 2026

March 2026
Third Place was awarded to Sonya LOW Ya Xuan; MEIYAPPAN Akshaya; SURESHKUMAR Harshitha; Samuel TAN Cheng Yong; Chong Wan Yu (SMU SOE);

at the FinTech Innovators' Hackathon 2026

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

at the DG Sprints Vibe Coding Challenge by GovTech Singapore.

Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards

March 2026
Second Place was awarded to Zane CHEE Jun Yi; Darrius NG Jiing Heng; TAI Wei Sin; LOW Yin Jin;

at the LotusHacks 2026

March 2026
Third Place was awarded to Sonya LOW Ya Xuan; MEIYAPPAN Akshaya; SURESHKUMAR Harshitha; Samuel TAN Cheng Yong; Chong Wan Yu (SMU SOE);

at the FinTech Innovators' Hackathon 2026

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

at the DG Sprints Vibe Coding Challenge by GovTech Singapore.

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 Professor 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 Professor 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.

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

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
Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC
;

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
MITB Graduate LIM Yean Sam
;
Associate Professor 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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