IBM Faculty Innovation Awards

Two of our professors, A/Prof. Danny Poo and A/Prof. Atreyi Kankanhalli, have each recently won a US$10,000 award from IBM in the IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Awards.

The Faculty Innovation awards recognize our professors' efforts in creating innovative curricula for the development of professionals to lead industry transformations. Prof. Danny's proposal on Healthcare Systems, Technologies, Interoperability & Standards won an award in the Healthcare Industry Skills category, while Prof. Atreyi's proposal on ICT-Enabled Smart Cities secured an award in the Smarter Cities category.

ICIS Best Paper, 1st Runner Up

At the recent annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2010), A/Prof. Pan Shan Ling and Ph.D student Mr. Du Wenyu won the 1st Runner-up Best Paper Award, for their work "Boundary Spanning By Design: Insights From A Vendor Perspective".

ICIS is the most prestigious gathering of information systems academics and research-oriented practitioners in the world.

Department Head at CEO and Employers Summit

Our Department Head, Associate Professor Teo Hock Hai, was recently a guest speaker at the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) 30th Anniversary CEO And Employers Summit. A/P Teo was among seven distinguished panelists, including senior management executives of the IT industry, speaking on the development of 'T-skills' and innovation in services.

A/P Pan Wins Annual Teaching Excellence Award

Our IS faculty member, Associate Professor Pan Shan Ling, has been awarded the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for Academic Year 2008/9!

The award recognizes university faculty members who excel as educators. A/P Pan was previously awarded the NUS ATEA in Academic Year 2003/4, and has received the Faculty Teaching Excellence award at SoC in 2003 and 2006.

Joint IS/Business Team Succeeds in International MIS Case Competition

An NUS team comprising our IS undergraduate, Mahesh Kumar, and two School of Business undergraduates (Lai Wai Kit and Sherry Goh Xue Li) have bettered more than a dozen other teams in the CaseIT 2010 international MIS case competition, to secure the second runner-up position.

The annual competition offers students an opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge they obtained from the classroom to real-life business scenarios through strategic IT analysis and presentation.

This year's competition, held in Canada from March 31 to April 3, saw undergraduate teams from 16 universities vying for the first prize. The NUS team was the only one from Singapore that advanced through the preliminary round, conceding to Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi from Italy and Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in the final round.

The joint team was advised and coached by our Department's very own A/P Pan Shan Ling. Dr. Pan also coached the NUS team in last year's competition, who clinched the first prize.

Besides training, the undergraduate team also met and consulted with industry experts. The team was judged by a panel consisting of industry experts, from companies such as SMART Technologies, SAP and Vancity Credit Union.

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Join the IS Department at NUS OpenHouse 2010!

Staff from the Department of Information Systems will be at the School of Computing booth during the NUS Open House! Prospective students are welcome to join us there and find out more about our undergraduate programs, including our exciting, new NUS B.Comp & Cambridge M.Phil (Management) concurrent degree. We'll also be conducting talks on studying at the Department at 11am and 3pm at Hall 4, on both 13 & 14 March.

More details are available at the NUS Open House 2010 website.