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Awards & Achievements

October 2025
Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Candidate HU Changshuo
PhD Candidate PHAM Hung Manh

at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.

The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop. 

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2025
Distinguished Tool Paper
was awarded to:
Krishnendu Chatterjee
Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady
Mehrdad Karrabi
Milad Saadat
Maximilian Seeliger
Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC

at the 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025), for the paper, “PolyQEnt: A Polynomial Quantified Entailment Solver”

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
October 2025
SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients
was awarded to:
Professor Robert H DENG
Senior Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN
Associate Professor TAN Kar Way
Associate Professor WANG Hai
Associate Professor Kyong Jin SHIM

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.

For the award categories,

  • 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)

The SMU Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the significance of teaching as a complex and multi-faceted profession. These university-level awards honour faculty members for their holistic contributions to peer development, student development, innovative instructional approaches, effective pedagogical practices and course design. SMU is also committed to adopting processes that promote gender equity in the recognition of teaching excellence.

Awards SMU Teaching Excellence Awards Faculty
September 2025
1st
was awarded to:
DESAI Diya Jigneshbhai
Tricia LAM Zhan Hui
FONG Shi Hui

at JPMorganChase Code for Good 2025.

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