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
Winner
at SAP Cloud Accelerated Learning Experience (S.C.A.L.E. 2025).
Best Paper Award
at the 16th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS 2025), for the paper, "Multi-terminal berth allocation with vessel rerouting and container transfers via shuttle vessels".
This is best paper award for the annual international workshop on computational transportation science. One of the most prestigious conferences on transportation intersects with optimization and computing.
Most Influential Paper Award
at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2025) for the paper, “Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction”.
The award is given on a ten-year basis to authors of papers published at QRS ten years ago that were judged to have the greatest impact on the theory or practice of software quality, reliability, and security in the ten years since its initial publication.
Best Student Paper Award
at the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP2025), for the paper, “Unbounded Multi-hop Proxy Re-encryption with HRA Security: An LWE-Based Optimization”.
Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2025
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.
Outstanding Poster
at the 1st CCF Graph Machine Learning Conference, for the poster, "Towards Graph Foundation Model: Multi-domain Pre-training and Multi-task Adaptation"
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
2nd Place
at the 5th International Workshop on Event-based Vision (CVPRW), hosted by CVPR 2025, for the challenge, “Event-Based Eye-Tracking Challenge (CVPRW)”
Undergraduate Education
Academic Experience
Recent Undergraduate Students Awards
at the Build for Impact 2026 Hackathon.
Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards
at the NCS Sunshine.AI Hackathon 2025.
Recent Undergraduate News
Postgraduate Research
Recent Postgraduate News
Recent Postgraduate Research Publications with Awards
from the ACM SIGSOFT for his dissertation “Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code”.
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
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 ACM SIGSOFT for his dissertation “Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code”.
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 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.
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.
at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).
Top 10% of the reviewers at NeurIPS 2025.
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.
