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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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April 2025
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Toufique Ahmed
Prem Devanbu
Christoph TREUDE
Associate Prof
Michael Pradel

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2025) for the paper, “Can LLMs Replace Manual Annotation of Software Engineering Artifacts?”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
April 2025
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Yuki Abe
Keisuke Matsushima
HARA, Kotaro
Assistant Prof
Daisuke Sakamoto
Tetsuo Ono

at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25) for the paper, ““I can run at night!”: Using Augmented Reality to Support Nighttime Guided Running for Low-vision Runners”.

This has been awarded to papers in the top 5% of submissions.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
April 2025
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2025
was awarded to:
Calixto TAY

Prestige 40 Under 40 is an annual initiative by Prestige Magazine that recognises and celebrates the most influential and innovative individuals under the age of 40 across various industries.

Alumni Awards Undergraduate Alumni
March 2025
3rd Prize for Public Safety and Security Theme
was awarded to:
Gilchris NATHANIEL

at the Port 63 Challenge, organised by NTU Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Awards Undergraduate Students at Competitions
March 2025
3rd Prize for Social Impact Theme
was awarded to:
ZHANG Yimei
SHEN Xinyi

at the Port 63 Challenge, organised by NTU Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Awards Undergraduate Students at Competitions
March 2025
Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
Karthik Mahadevan
Blaine Lewis
LI Jiannan
Assistant Prof
Bilge Mutlu
TANG, Tony
Associate Prof
Tovi Grossman

at the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2025) for the paper, “ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
March 2025
Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
Yang Liu
Kayla-Jade Butkow
Jake Stuchbury-Wass
Adam Pullin
Cecilia Mascolo

at the 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025) for the paper, “Respear: Earable-based robust respiratory rate monitoring”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
January 2025
ACM Distinguished Speaker
was awarded to:
David LO
OUB Chair Prof

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognizes distinguished speakers who are international thought leaders on topics in Computer Science. A distinguished speaker is appointed for a three-year period.

Awards Faculty

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.