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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

April 2026
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Zhengtao Xu
Junti Zhang
Associate Professor TANG, Tony
Yi-Chieh Lee

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

Top 5% of submissions to CHI 2026 (6,730 submissions)

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
March 2026
Second Place
was awarded to:
Zane CHEE Jun Yi
Darrius NG Jiing Heng
TAI Wei Sin
LOW Yin Jin

at the LotusHacks 2026

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
March 2026
Third Place
was awarded to:
Sonya LOW Ya Xuan
MEIYAPPAN Akshaya
SURESHKUMAR Harshitha
Samuel TAN Cheng Yong
Chong Wan Yu (SMU SOE)

at the FinTech Innovators' Hackathon 2026

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
March 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Yuelin Wang
Yuqiao Ning
Yanbang Sun
Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei
Zhihua Xie
Yang Chen
Zhen Guo
Shihao Xue
Junjie Wang
Sen Chen

from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Towards Understanding and Characterizing Vulnerabilities in Intelligent Connected Vehicles through Real-World Exploits".

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)