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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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October 2021
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021
was awarded to:
ZHANG Ce
PhD Graduate

from the Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC).

Awards Postgraduate Research Students
October 2021
Her World Young Woman Achiever 2021
was awarded to:
LIN Fengru

from Her World.

Alumni Awards Undergraduate Alumni
October 2021
Best Paper Honourable Mentions
was received by:
ZHANG Songheng
PhD Candidate

at the IEEE VIS 2021 (Virtual) for the paper, “KG4Vis: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Visualization Recommendation”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2021
Best Paper Nomination
was awarded to:
Rosiana NATALIE
PhD Graduate
Jolene LOH
TAN Huei Suen
Joshua TSENG
Ian Luke CHAN
HARA, Kotaro
Assistant Prof

at the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021), for the paper, “The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Undergraduate Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
May 2021
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award 2021
was awarded to:
David LO
OUB Chair Prof

from the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) in 2021 for providing outstanding and extensive service to the software engineering community in his many roles in major software engineering conferences (such as ASE, ICPC, ICSME, and SANER) and journals (such as co-EiC Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, AE of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Automated Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, and Journal of Software: Evolution and Process). This is one of the two most prestigious service awards in the field of Software Engineering.

Awards Faculty
May 2021
Best Demonstration Award
was awarded to:
Chaithanya Shankaramurthy BASRUR
Arambam James SINGH
PhD Graduate
Assistant Prof Arunesh SINHA
Akshat KUMAR
Associate Prof

at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021) for the demonstration, “Ship-GAN: Generative Modeling Based Maritime Traffic Simulator”.

Awards Faculty Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Postgraduate Research (Publications)
April 2021
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020
was awarded to:
LE Trung Hoang
PhD Graduate

from the Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC).

Awards Postgraduate Research Students
March 2021
ECIR 2021 Test-of-Time Award
was awarded to:
Wayne Xin ZHAO
Jing JIANG
Prof
Jianshu WENG
Jing HE
LIM Ee Peng
Prof
Hongfei YAN
Xiaoming LI

at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021) for the paper, “Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

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).

January 2026
2nd Runner-Up was awarded to Brandon KOH Wei Sheng; Jeric TOH Bing Hui; SUNDARAM RAMASUBBU Raksha; YIAM Jun Bin; Sidney ANG Yan Jie;

at the Build for Impact 2026 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.