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
- Trustworthiness of Digital Platforms & Devices
- Misinformation & Disinformation
- Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing & Analytics
- Security & Governance of Software/AI Systems
Centres, Labs & Initiatives
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
Research Programmes
- Collaborative, Robust and Explainable AI-based Decision Making Lab
- Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing & Engineering (UNiCEN) Corp. Lab
- Living Analytics Research Centre
- LiveLabs Urban Lifestyle Innovation Platform
- Pinnacle Lab
- SMU-A*STAR Joint Lab in Social and Human-Centered Computing
Practice and Outreach Programmes
Research Awards and Achievements
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, “Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair”.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished papers are given to at most 10% of the papers accepted at an ACM SIGSOFT-sponsored conference.
Finalist for Best Paper Competition - Applied Track
at the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics (DMDA) Workshop, for the paper, “Formulating Optimization Programs with Self-Improving LLM Experience Library”.
Honourable Mention
at the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025), for the paper, “Tactile Data Comics: Combining Step-by-step Presentation of Tactile Graphics with Verbal Narration for the Blind and Visually Impaired”.
The ASSETS' best honorable mention awards honor the top 5% of conference submissions.
2025 Google Academic Research Awards
for the research proposal, “Safeguarding Young Adults From “Crypto Influencer” Investment Scam” from Google LLC, with the 'Trust, Safety, Security, and Privacy Research Award', via the 'Google Academic Research Awards' program.
