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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

January 2026
2nd Runner-Up
was awarded to:
Brandon KOH Wei Sheng
Jeric TOH Bing Hui
SUNDARAM RAMASUBBU Raksha
YIAM Jun Bin
Sidney ANG Yan Jie

at the Build for Impact 2026 Hackathon.

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
January 2026
First Prize
was awarded to:
SUBRAMANIAN Makendra Prasad
Sidharth RAJESH

at the Cargill x SMU BIA Datathon 2026.

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
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”.

Awards Research (Publications) Postgraduate Research (Publications)
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.

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