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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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March 2021
IEOM Outstanding Professor Award
was awarded to:
Professor LAU Hoong Chuin

at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2021).

Awards Faculty
March 2021
IEOM Outstanding Service Award & Outstanding Young Faculty Award
was awarded to:
Associate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN

at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2021).

Awards Faculty
February 2021
AAAI Senior Member, Class of 2021
was awarded to:
Associate Professor Akshat KUMAR

from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

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January 2021
Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate LE Trung Hoang
Associate Professor Hady W. LAUW

at the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), for the paper, “Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews”

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
January 2021
Best Research Demo
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate GOKARN Ila Nitin
Vice Provost (Research) Prof Archan MISRA

at the 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2021) for the demonstration, “Demonstrating High-Performance Simultaneous Visible Light Communication and Sensing”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
September 2020
Credit Scoring Challenge 2020 (Rank: 1/853)
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate TRUONG Quoc Tuan

organised by Kalapa.

Postgraduate Research Students Awards
September 2020
SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2020
was awarded to:
Associate Professor OUH Eng Lieh

from the SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), for the project, “Interactive Programming Video Tutorial System to improve Learning Outcome of Programming Courses in Higher Education”

Awards Faculty
June 2020
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Yang Chen
Andrew E. SANTOSA
Ming Yi ANG
PhD Graduate Abhishek SHARMA
Asankhaya SHARMA
OUB Chair Professor David LO

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020) for the paper, “A Machine Learning Approach for Vulnerability Curation”

Awards Faculty Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Postgraduate 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.