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.
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.
The SMU MITB maintains its ranking amongst 164 programmes across 31 locations in the 2025 QS Global Master’s in Business Analytics Rankings.
Journey with us
Latest News Highlights
Latest Awards & Achievements
Best Paper Runner Up Award
at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2024) for the paper, “IRL for Restless Multi-armed Bandits with Applications in Maternal and Child Health”.
Only 2 of 543 submissions receive the award.
NUS Distinguished Computing Alumni Award 2023
from NUS School of Computing.
To recognise NUS Computing alumni whose endeavours in their chosen fields or professions are worthy of recognition and have brought honour to the University/School.
2024 Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards
Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards are focused on supporting exceptional computer science research in the region. Through this program we also intend to strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.
For their papers,
Enabling Diverse Tiny Model Selection on Microcontroller-based IoT devices
Robust and Efficient Alignment for Integrity in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents
INFORMS Outstanding SIG Paper in Urban Transportation
at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Multiobjective Stochastic Optimization: A Case of Real-Time Matching in Ride-Sourcing Markets”.
The INFORMS TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics.
INFORMS TSL Cross-Regional Collaborative Grant Award
at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Decentralization and Multi-Modality for Advanced Air Mobility”.
This is the collaborative grant award for INFORMS members across regions, which recognizes and motivates cross-regional collaborative excellent research.
Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (Associate Editor) 2024
from INFORMS 2024. These awards recognize associate editors, special issue guest editors, and reviewers who have offered exceptional service in the editorial process.
Distinguished Reviewer Award
at the Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications (SETTA 2024).
This was awarded to 4 of the 50 program committee members.
SMU Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award 2024 - Recipients
from Singapore Management University (SMU).
The Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award is a university-level award to formally acknowledge, inspire, and encourage excellent mentorship, and to recognise supervisors’ contributions in nurturing the next generation of future scholars, thought leaders, and game changers.
Undergraduate Education
Academic Experience
Recent Undergraduate Students Awards
at The Cybersecurity Awards 2025 by the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).
In its eighth year, The Cybersecurity Awards 2025 seeks to honour outstanding contributions by individuals and organisations, to local and regional cybersecurity ecosystems.
from the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).
Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards
at the NCS Sunshine.AI Hackathon 2025.
Postgraduate Research
Recent Postgraduate News
Recent Postgraduate Research Publications with Awards
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'.
at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.
The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).
Recent Postgraduate Research Student Awards
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).
from Google, in the Quantum Computing category.
His research interests include Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction.
from ByteDance
Recent Postgraduate Professional Alumni Awards
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.
Research
Recent Research Awards
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'.
at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.
The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).
Recent Research News
Recent Faculty Awards
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.
at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).
Top 10% of the reviewers at NeurIPS 2025.
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.
For the award categories,
The SMU Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the significance of teaching as a complex and multi-faceted profession. These university-level awards honour faculty members for their holistic contributions to peer development, student development, innovative instructional approaches, effective pedagogical practices and course design. SMU is also committed to adopting processes that promote gender equity in the recognition of teaching excellence.
Recent Faculty News
Alumni & Industry
Recent Alumni Awards
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.
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.
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.
