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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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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 Professor 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)
April 2024
ICSE24 Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Changan Niu
Chuanyi Li
Vincent Ng
OUB Chair Professor David LO
Bin Luo

at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) for the paper, “FAIR: Flow Type-Aware Pre-Training of Compiler Intermediate Representations”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
April 2024
ICSE24 Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Junkai Chen
Xing Hu
Zhenhao Li
Cuiyun Gao
Xin Xia
OUB Chair Professor David LO

at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) for the paper, “Code Search is All You Need? Improving Code Suggestions with Code Search”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
April 2024
Best Reviewer Award
was awarded to:
Associate Professor Christoph TREUDE

at the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt 2024).

Best Reviewer Award was awarded to 3 of the 34 PC members of the technical research track.

Awards Faculty
April 2024
1st Place from the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate YANG Zhou

at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) for the paper titled, “Classifying Source Code: How Far Can Compressor-based Classifiers Go?”.

Awards Research (Publications) Postgraduate Research (Publications)
March 2024
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Hao GU
Shichao ZHANG
Qiao HUANG
Zhifang LIAO
Jiakun LIU
OUB Chair Professor David LO

at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) for the paper, “Self-Admitted Technical Debts Identification: How Far Are We?”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
March 2024
Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate MA Xiao
Associate Professor HE Shengfeng
PhD Candidate QIAO Hezhe

at the 22nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2024) for the paper, “DiTMoS: Delving into Diverse Tiny-Model Selection on Microcontroller”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) 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.