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Awards & Achievements

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)
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