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Research Awards and Achievements
Honourable Mention
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.
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award
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).
Honourable Mention
at the ACM CHI 2026 conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, for the paper, "Who You Explain To Matters: Learning by Explaining to Conversational Agents with Different Pedagogical Roles".
Top 5% of all submissions to ACM CHI 2026.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
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.
CORE RESEARCH AREAS
Create Computing Technology and Systems
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
Human-Machine Collaborative Systems
Information Systems & Technology
INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH AREAS
Digital Transformation in Action
Learning & Work
- Future of Work
- 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
- Security & Governance of Software/AI Systems
- Trustworthiness of Digital Platforms & Devices
- Misinformation & Disinformation
- Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing & Analytics
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
