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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 2024
Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate MA Xiao
Associate Prof HE Shengfeng
PhD Candidate QIAO Hezhe
Assistant Prof MA Dong

at the 22nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2024) for the paper, “DiTMoS: Delving into Diverse Tiny-Model Selection on Microcontroller”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
January 2024
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2023
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate LIM Jia Peng
PhD Graduate CHEN Changyu

from the Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC).

Awards Postgraduate Research Students
January 2024
ACM Fellow 2023
was awarded to:
OUB Chair Prof David LO

from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.

Awards Faculty
December 2023
Best Technical Design Paper Award
was awarded to:
Associate Prof Don TA
MPhil (IS) Graduate NGUYEN Hua Gia Phuc
Associate Prof Swapna GOTTIPATI

at the 31st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2023) for the paper, “ExGen: Ready-To-Use Exercise Generation in Introductory Programming Courses”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
December 2023
Best Conference Paper Award
was awarded to:
Associate Prof Manoj THULASIDAS
Associate Prof Kyong Jin SHIM
Jonathan TEO

at the International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2023) for the paper, “Peer Learning in an Undergraduate Linear Algebra Course - A Social Network Analysis”.

Faculty Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Undergraduate Research (Publications) Awards
November 2023
2023 Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards
was awarded to:
Assistant Prof CAO Yixin [formerly until July 2024]
Associate Prof HE Shengfeng
Assistant Prof LIAO Lizi

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,

  • Shengfeng He, Singapore Management University
    FlashVision: Dynamic-Background Tolerant Video Conferencing via Flash Photography
  • Liao Lizi, Singapore Management University
    Advancing Large Language Models for Target-Driven Conversation
  • Yixin Cao, Singapore Management University
    Synergizing Large Language Models for Collaborative Planning

Awards Faculty Research (Publications) Faculty
October 2023
Best Paper Award (Applications Track)
was awarded to:
Jiaxi Li
Assistant Prof Guansong PANG
Ling Chen
Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2023) for the paper, “HRGCN: Heterogeneous Graph-level Anomaly Detection with Hierarchical Relation-augmented Graph Neural Networks”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2023
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Vinay Kabadi
Dezhen Kong
Siyu Xie
Lingfeng Bao
PhD Graduate Gede Artha Azriadi PRANA
PhD Graduate LE Bui Tien Duy
PhD Graduate LE Dinh Xuan Bach
OUB Chair Prof David LO

at the 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME23) for the paper, “The Future Can’t Help Fix The Past: Assessing Program Repair In The Wild”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

May 2025
Top 10 Asia Young Women Rising Tech Stars 2025 was awarded to Crystal Layla LUI;

at the Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2025.

November 2024
Student Volunteer Recognition Programme (SVRP) - Bronze Award was awarded to Axel TAN Xian Lin;

from the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).

November 2024
Student Volunteer Recognition Programme (SVRP) - Silver Award was awarded to Zara TEO Xiao Xuan;

from the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).

Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards

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.

September 2025
Top 5 was awarded to LIU Qingyu; YEO Yu Chen; LIM Jitt Hing; MOK Cong Yao; TAN Ee Herng;

at the Sparks x Build for Good (BFG) Community Hackathon, for their project, SeniorSync.

Recent Postgraduate Research Publications with Awards

October 2025
Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate MA Xiao
;
Xinger HUANG; Yiran SHEN;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

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%).

October 2025
Best Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate PHAM Hung Manh
;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.

The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop. 

Recent Postgraduate Research Student Awards

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

September 2024
Winner of SMU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 2024 was awarded to
PhD Graduate Ratnadira WIDYASARI
;

organised by SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS).

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 Prof 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 Research Awards

October 2025
Distinguished Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate MA Xiao
;
Xinger HUANG; Yiran SHEN;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

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%).

October 2025
Best Paper Award was awarded to
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
;
PhD Candidate PHAM Hung Manh
;
Assistant Prof MA Dong
;

at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.

The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop. 

Recent Faculty Awards

October 2025
Top Reviewer was awarded to
Assistant Prof Djordje ZIKELIC
;

at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

Top 10% of the reviewers at NeurIPS 2025.

October 2025
SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients was awarded to
Prof Robert H. DENG
;
Senior Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN
;
Associate Prof TAN Kar Way
;
Associate Prof WANG Hai
;
Associate Prof Kyong Jin SHIM
;

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,

  • 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)

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.

September 2025
SMU Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award 2025 (Capabilities Pillar) Winner was awarded to
Associate Prof WANG Hai
;

from the SMU College of Integrative Studies (CIS).

SMU CIS which oversees the SMU Core Curriculum, has established these awards to recognise outstanding faculty members and adjunct instructors who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and a strong commitment to student learning within the Core Curriculum. Each academic year, awardees are selected for each of the three pillars of the Core Curriculum - Capabilities, Communities and Civilisations. Recipients of three consecutive teaching awards are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

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 Prof 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.