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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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October 2018
Highly Commended Full Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate XU Bowen
Amirreza Shirani
OUB Chair Professor David LO
Mohammad Amin Alipour

at the 12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2018), for the paper, “Prediction of relatedness in stack overflow: Deep learning vs. SVM: A reproducibility study”

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2018
Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate Kasthuri JAYARAJAH
Andrew TAN
Vice Provost (Research) Prof Archan MISRA

at the ACM International Joint Conference and International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018)/Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), for the paper, “Exploiting the Inter-dependency of Land Use and Mobility for Applications in Urban Planning”

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
July 2018
Best Application Demo Award
was awarded to:
Associate Professor CHENG Shih-Fen
PhD Graduate Meghna LOWALEKAR
Professor Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM

at the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2018) for the demo, “Driver Guidance System for Taxis in Singapore”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
May 2018
AI's 10 to Watch
was awarded to:
Associate Professor Akshat KUMAR

from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

Also featured in SMU News, SMU professor recognised as “AI’s 10 to Watch” by IEEE.

Awards Faculty

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.