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
Distinguished Paper Award
at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.
The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).
Best Paper Award
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.
Distinguished Tool Paper
Honourable Mention
at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2025), for the paper, “Achilles: A Formal Framework of Leaking Secrets from Signature Schemes via Rowhammer”.
Honorable Mentions 34th USENIX Security Symposium recognise a select group of submissions that rank among the most exceptional in the conference. These distinctions highlight work that demonstrates outstanding technical merit, originality, and potential impact within the security and privacy research community.
