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We seek to create computing knowledge for the digital transformation of business and society, and the application of this knowledge in the training of IT professionals.

Awards & Achievements

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)
April 2026
Dell Technologies Academy (Cloud Native Experience Award)
was awarded to:
Joshua ANG
Bryan CHUA
Derrick LIM
Shawn NG
Jia Yen BEH
Zi You FOO
Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
April 2026
Future Unicorn Award
was awarded to:
CHAI Yichen
CHANG Chia Yin
Joash LAU Rong Wei
Sambrama Yasawirya HUANG
Seann KHOO Jian En

at the Deep Learning Week 2026

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
April 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Jie Gao
Yue Xue
Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei
Junming Cao
SoeMin Thant
Erika Lee
Bowen Xu

from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), at the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2026), for the paper, "Understanding Codebase like a Professional! Human-Al Collaboration for Code Comprehension".

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)