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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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June 2026
Honourable Mention
was received by:
ShunYi Yeo
Tianyi Zhang
Scott Bateman
Gary Hsieh
Young-Ho Kim
Simon Tangi Perrault
Assistant Professor LI Jiannan
Associate Professor TANG, Tony

at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2026, for the paper, "Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction".

Top 5% of all submissions to ACM DIS 2026.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
June 2026
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award
was awarded to:
Assistant Professor Guansong PANG

at the The 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).

One of the most prestigious early-career awards in the KDD field, this award recognizes an individual within the first 10 years after their PhD for outstanding research contributions, leadership, and service, with at most one recipient (or none) selected each year; notable prior awardees include Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis (UCI, USA), Tanmoy Chakraborty (IIIT, India), Feida Zhu (SMU, Singapore), and Yang Yu (NanjingU, China).

 

Awards Faculty Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty
May 2026
First Place
was awarded to:
SU Myat Myat Htay
Jovan WANG Ying Ming

for the Micron Technology Track at the National AI Student Challenge

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
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
Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
May 2026
UBS-SMU-X IT Solution Architecture Award
was awarded to:
Isaac PUA Jin Lit
Darrius NG Jiing Heng
Anson KOH Guang Wei
CHAI Yi Khuen
Jayden TEOH Jing Xiang
Julian Dominic LIAW
KHOO Kar Xing
Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
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
Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
May 2026
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Zhengtao Xu
Junti Zhang
Associate Professor TANG, Tony
Yi-Chieh Lee

at the ACM CHI 2026 conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, for the paper, "Who You Explain To Matters: Learning by Explaining to Conversational Agents with Different Pedagogical Roles".

Top 5% of all submissions to ACM CHI 2026.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
May 2026
SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award (Runner Up)
was awarded to:
Assistant Professor HUO Yintong

from the SPEC Research Group (RG), a group within the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), at the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), for her dissertation paper, "Log-Driven Automated Software Reliability Engineering".

The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is an annual award that aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general.

Awards Faculty Research (Publications)

Recent Undergraduate Students Awards

May 2026
First Place was awarded to SU Myat Myat Htay; Jovan WANG Ying Ming;

for the Micron Technology Track at the National AI Student Challenge

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;
May 2026
UBS-SMU-X IT Solution Architecture Award was awarded to Isaac PUA Jin Lit; Darrius NG Jiing Heng; Anson KOH Guang Wei; CHAI Yi Khuen; Jayden TEOH Jing Xiang; Julian Dominic LIAW; KHOO Kar Xing;

Recent Undergraduate Students at Competitions Awards

May 2026
First Place was awarded to SU Myat Myat Htay; Jovan WANG Ying Ming;

for the Micron Technology Track at the National AI Student Challenge

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;
May 2026
UBS-SMU-X IT Solution Architecture Award was awarded to Isaac PUA Jin Lit; Darrius NG Jiing Heng; Anson KOH Guang Wei; CHAI Yi Khuen; Jayden TEOH Jing Xiang; Julian Dominic LIAW; KHOO Kar Xing;

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

June 2026
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award was awarded to
Assistant Professor Guansong PANG
;

at the The 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).

One of the most prestigious early-career awards in the KDD field, this award recognizes an individual within the first 10 years after their PhD for outstanding research contributions, leadership, and service, with at most one recipient (or none) selected each year; notable prior awardees include Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis (UCI, USA), Tanmoy Chakraborty (IIIT, India), Feida Zhu (SMU, Singapore), and Yang Yu (NanjingU, China).

 

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. 

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.