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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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September 2024
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate SUN Zhensu
DU Xiaoning
PhD Graduate YANG Zhou
LI Li
OUB Chair Professor David LO

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024) for the paper, “AI Coders Are among Us: Rethinking Programming Language Grammar towards Efficient Code Generation”.

Top 10% accepted paper of the conference.

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

Awards Research (Publications) Postgraduate Research Students
September 2024
Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Krishnendu Chatterjee
Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshad
Mehrdad Karrabi
Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC

at the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2024) for the paper, “Sound and Complete Witnesses for Template-based Verification of LTL Properties on Polynomial Programs”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
September 2024
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
was awarded to:
Wen SONG
Xinyang CHEN
Qiqiang LI
Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang

from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for the paper, “Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling via Graph Neural Network and Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

May 2026
Dell Cloud Native (Enterprise Solution Development) Award was awarded to LIM Wei Yau; TAN Tiong Guan; LOH Kai Zhe; Joey CHIK Lixuan; Riley LEE Jia E;
May 2026
UBS-SMU-X Collaborative Software Development Award was awarded to Brandon KOH Wei Sheng; Adrian YEO Ying Hong; Brian LEONG Jie Ren; LEE Jin Rae; Jereme TAN Jing Min; Jeric TOH Bing Hui;
April 2026
Dell Technologies Academy (Cloud Native Experience Award) was awarded to Joshua ANG Teng Seng; Bryan CHUA Kai Zhe; Derrick LIM Kai Hao; Shawn NG Yong Han; BEH Jia Yen; FOO Zi You;

Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards

May 2026
Dell Cloud Native (Enterprise Solution Development) Award was awarded to LIM Wei Yau; TAN Tiong Guan; LOH Kai Zhe; Joey CHIK Lixuan; Riley LEE Jia E;
May 2026
UBS-SMU-X Collaborative Software Development Award was awarded to Brandon KOH Wei Sheng; Adrian YEO Ying Hong; Brian LEONG Jie Ren; LEE Jin Rae; Jereme TAN Jing Min; Jeric TOH Bing Hui;
April 2026
Dell Technologies Academy (Cloud Native Experience Award) was awarded to Joshua ANG Teng Seng; Bryan CHUA Kai Zhe; Derrick LIM Kai Hao; Shawn NG Yong Han; BEH Jia Yen; FOO Zi You;

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 Research 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 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.