Dean's Graduate Award
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The Dean's Graduate Award is given to encourage and recognise research excellence in graduate students.
The award is not an entitlement and students must meet the following criteria to be considered for the Award:
A. Be either a full-time or part-time PhD student throughout the whole semester at the time of award presentation
B. Achieved consistently outstanding performance (over a two-year period) in terms of:
(i) Publications in Rank-1 and/or good Rank-2 journals/conferences
(ii) Registered for patent
(iii) Significant system development of either commercial interest or wide usage by organisations not related to the development work
In all cases, the student must be a significant contributor/primary author of the achievement.
Supervisors of graduate students fulfilling the above criteria may nominate the students for the Award by submitting the following to the Graduate Division (attn: loolf@comp.nus.edu.sg ):
- Dean's Graduate Award Nomination Form
- Significant contribution (copies of paper acceptance notifications)
Graduate students who have been confirmed/notified as recipients for the Award will each receive a certificate for his/her meritorious performance and a cash prize of $500. The award ceremony will be held in the first week of each semester, during the welcome tea session for new graduate students.
Selection Process
The selection process of Dean's Graduate Award recipients is as follows:
1) Department Heads nominate two independent members from each department to evaluate the nominees.
2) Graduate Office consolidates their evaluations.
3) Nominees are ranked based on:
* the two evaluators' ranking
* the number of rank1 papers (or best paper in rank2) in that year
* the supervisor's comments on each student
* the number of patents awarded
With this rank list, we then select the top students to be given the Award, and the number of recipient depends on the number of awards available.
The School Management has decided to limit the number of the awards, so it is no longer the case that authors of rank-1 paper will automatically get
the award.
Graduate Division
SoC
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