Research Awards and Achievements

July 2026
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights
was awarded to:

at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "SeCuRepair: Semantics-Aligned, Curriculum-Driven, and Reasoning-Enhanced Vulnerability Repair Framework".

The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.

July 2026
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights
was awarded to:

at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents". 

The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.

June 2026
Honourable Mention
was received by:

at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2026, for the paper, "Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction".

Top 5% of all submissions to ACM DIS 2026.

June 2026
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award
was awarded to:

at the The 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).

One of the most prestigious early-career awards in the KDD field, this award recognizes an individual within the first 10 years after their PhD for outstanding research contributions, leadership, and service, with at most one recipient (or none) selected each year; notable prior awardees include Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis (UCI, USA), Tanmoy Chakraborty (IIIT, India), Feida Zhu (SMU, Singapore), and Yang Yu (NanjingU, China).

 

Research Focus Areas

As a computing school in Singapore Management University, our research is uniquely defined by the twin emphasis of Academic Scholarship in Computing Technology and Practice Scholarship in Solution Development.

Our Academic Scholarships are directed to 3 selected areas, mainly Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Human-Machine Collaborative Systems, and Information Systems and Technology.

At the same time, we need to go beyond technology creation in order to achieve practical impact.

We emphasise solution development which entails integrating different technologies, integrating with business models and processes, addressing usability, deployment and product management concerns, aligning with local ethical norms as well as legal and regulatory frameworks and ultimately, fulfilling user and organisational needs.

That is what we mean by Practice Scholarship.

The application areas that we direct our Practice Scholarship to are: Learning & Work, Urban & Sustainability, Health & Wellbeing, and Safety, Security & Fairness.

SMU SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS | Research Map

CORE RESEARCH AREAS

Create Computing Technology and Systems

Core Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

  •  Data Management & Mining
  •  Decision Making & Optimization
  •  Machine Learning & Intelligence

Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

  •  Embodied & Pervasive Systems
  •  Multimedia Systems
  •  Human-Computer Interaction

Information Systems & Technology

  •  Software Engineering
  •  Cybersecurity
  •  Information Systems Management

INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH AREAS

Digital Transformation in Action

Integrative Research Areas

Learning & Work

  •  Technology-Enhanced Learning & Pedagogy
  • Future of Work
  •  Analytics & Decision Support
  • Next Generation IT Practices

Urban & Sustainability

  • Urban Mobility & Smart Environment
  • Urban Logistics & Sustainability
  • Crowd Management
  • Homeland Security

Health & Well-being

  • Ageing & Mental Health
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Lifestyle & Wellness
  • Social Analytics

Safety, Security & Fairness

  • Trustworthiness of Digital Platforms & Devices
  • Misinformation & Disinformation
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing & Analytics
  • Security & Governance of Software/AI Systems

Centres, Labs & Initiatives

To conduct research which integrates social sciences and humanities disciplines with advances in computational intelligence and digital technologies.

Formally known as Secure Mobile Centre, the Centre on Security, Mobile Applications and Cryptography conducts research on the following areas:

  • Systems and mobile security
  • Software and data security
  • Cryptography and cloud security
  • Digital platforms device security
  • Program analysis and blockchain
To conduct both applied and fundamental research in the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity for improving software quality and reducing costs.
To build trustworthy (robust and explainable) AI decision making frameworks and systems that collaborate with humans and/or other AI systems. The initial focus of the lab is on developing frameworks for trustworthy training and situated assistance for non-expert humans in safety critical environments.