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Year 2013

 

NUS Team Wins Second Place in Inaugural Underwater Robotics Competitions

NUS School of Computing students, Goh Eng Wei, Louis Tran, and Jonathan Ong, are part of a team of 10 National University of Singapore (NUS) students that won second place at the inaugural Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge...

 

Associate Professor Stephane Bressan Presents Keynote at TeSCA Award Ceremony

Associate Professor Stephane Bressan was invited to give a keynote talk at the Telkom Smart Campus Award (TeSCA) Ceremony 2013 in Jakarta...

 

Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury Appointed to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Speaker Program

Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury has received an appointment to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Speaker Program as of 13 May 2013...

 

NUS and IBM to jointly establish Centre for Business Analytics to build world-class analytics capabilities

NUS School of Computing and NUS Business School are working with IBM to establish the NUS Centre for Business Analytics to support Singapore’s strategic economic focus on business analytics...

 

Distinguished Professor Ooi Beng Chin has won the NUS Outstanding Researcher Award

Distinguished Professor Ooi Beng Chin has won the NUS Outstanding Researcher Award. The award was presented to him at the University Awards Ceremony held at the University Cultural Centre on 26 April 2013...

 

Assistant Professor Richard Ma Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering 2013

Assistant Professor Richard Ma has won the inaugural Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering 2013 for his paper entitled "ABACUS: An Auction-Based Approach to Cloud Service Differentiation"...

 

Associate Professor Pan Shan Ling Nominated for European Research Paper of the Year Award

Associate Professor Pan Shan Ling’s paper “Advancing Public Trust Relationships in Electronic Government: The Singapore E-Filing Journey” was selected to be included in the election of European Research Paper of the Year 2013...

 

Professor Tan Kian Lee Selected to Receive IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award

Professor Tan Kian Lee has been selected to receive the 2013 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for technical achievements in advanced query processing in database systems...

 

Assistant Professor Seth Lewis Gilbert Appointed Dean’s Associate Chair Professor

Assistant Professor Seth Lewis Gilbert has been appointed Dean’s Associate Chair Professor as of 1 April 2013...

 

NUS School of Computing Dean Awarded Distinguished Professorship

Professor Ooi Beng Chin has been appointed Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, with effect from 13 February 2013. Prof Ooi is among the best regarded researchers in the database arena, especially for his research contributions to peer-to-peer data management and to the management of spatio-temporal and multimedia data...

 

Professor Joxan Jaffar Appointed Advisory Committee Member at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Joxan Jaffar has been appointed an Advisory Committee member for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong...

 

Quantum Commitment Secures Data Transfer

Many scenarios in business and communication require that two parties share information without either being sure if they can trust the other. Examples include secure auctions and identification at automated teller machines (ATMs). Researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at NUS are developing technologies that exploit the quantum interactions of the subatomic world to solve this problem...

Year 2012

 

Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou Elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou has been elected into the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) as a Fellow...

 

NUS Research Group Wins Best Paper Award at ISM2012

NUS School of Computing’s Associate Professors Wang Ye and Roger Zimmerman, Research Fellow Dr Yu Yi together with Associate Professor Vincent Oria from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2012...

 

Associate Professor Tulika Mitra and PhD student Chen Liang Receive Outstanding Paper Award

Associate Professor Tulika Mitra and PhD student, Chen Liang, have received the Outstanding Paper Award for their paper titled “Graph Minor Approach for Application Mapping on CGRAs” at the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (ICFPT) 2012 held in Seoul...

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Professor Tan Chew Lim Elected as a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition

Professor Tan Chew Lim has been elected as a fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).  Since 1994, the IAPR Fellow Award has been biennially conferred on persons to acknowledge their distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition...

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Associate Professor Leong Tze Yun Elected as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics

Associate Professor Leong Tze Yun has been elected into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) as an International Fellow.  ACMI is a college of elected fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics...

 

NUS PhD Student wins Best PhD Forum Paper Award

NUS SoC PhD student Prabhu Natarajan received the Best PhD Forum Paper Award at the sixth Annual International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, held in Hong Kong from 30 October 2012 to 2 November 2012 ...

 

Associate Professor Ooi Wei Tsang and Dr Pavel Korshunov Wins ACM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award

Associate Professor Ooi Wei Tsang and Dr Pavel Korshunov have won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award for a paper they co-authored...

     

 

Dr Gregory Duck Received Best Paper Award at ICLP 2012

Dr Gregory James Duck, a senior research fellow at NUS School of Computing has received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference for Logic Programming (ICLP) 2012 for his paper on “SMCHR: Satisfiability Modulo Constraint Handling Rules”...

     

 

NUS Computing Graduates Bring 1820 Singapore to Life

The National Library Board (NLB) is showcasing 20 letters written by Sir Stamford Raffles in an exhibit called “Raffles’ Letters: Intrigues behind the Founding of Singapore.” The exhibit also boasts maps of Singapore dating back to 1820 and use the Microsoft Kinect...

     

 

NUS Computer Science PhD Student Awarded Conference Scholarship

The Association for Computing Machinery‘s Women in Computing Group (ACM-W) provides support in the form of scholarships for female students in Computer Science and related programmes to attend research conferences. Zhang Ying, a Computer Science PhD Student from SoC, has been selected ...

     

 

From the Classroom to the Workplace

A quality computing education does not revolve around just assignments and examinations. It involves knowing real-world demands and technological trends...

     

 

NUS Computing Alumnus Wins Industry Award for iPad Game

Touch Dimensions, a local game development start-up by NUS School of Computing alumnus Travis Ho, has won the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) Gold Award....

     

 

Innovation Nets Top Three Placing for NUS Computing Student

S Jai Kishan, a NUS School of Computing Student, sought to ease the pain of driving in Singapore....

     

 

NUS SoC Student on Winning Team at Asian Students' Venture Forum 2012

Viewing world news through a more interactive and visual way -- that was the business idea that won Tay Kah Hong and his nine team mates the first prize...

     

 

NUS Computing Students Wins Third in CHI Student Design Competition

A multi-disciplinary team submitted a paper and poster entitled Habitag: Virtually Home to the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction...

     

 

NUS Computing Student’s Last Minute Entry is a Top 10 Winner

In August 2011, India issued an anti-corruption bill that inspired Ishan Agrawal, a Year 4 Computer Engineering student in NUS to co-found CorruptionTrak...

     

 

NUS Computing Graduate Receives NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Koh Chuen Hoa graduates in 2012 with The NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for his final year dissertation...

     

 

NUS Computing Celebrates the Class of 2012

NUS School of Computing (SoC) celebrated the commencement of its class of 2012 on 6 July 2012. Addressing the graduating cohort was SoC Industry Advisory Committee Co-Chair, Mr Xavier Nicolas, General Manager of Lucasfilm Singapore....

 

 

Recognition for NUS Computing Faculty at University Awards 2012

A number of NUS Computing faculty members have been recognised for their excellence in their work at University Awards 2012...

 

 

TKKYIA Merit Award for Assistant Professor Sim Khe Chai

Assistant Professor Sim Khe Chai has won a Merit Award in the Open Category of the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award (TKKYIA) for 2012...

 

 

NUS Computing Alumnus Victor Tong Is World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2012

Dr Victor Tong Joo Chuan has been selected as World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL) for 2012. The World Economic Forum announced its choice...

 

 

NUS Computing Team Wins Grand Prize at Bank of America Campus Challenge

Four graduate students from NUS School of Computing recently won the Bank of America Global Campus Challenge. The Challenge, a competition seeking innovative solutions...

 

 

NUS Team Wins Second Place in CaseIT 2012

A team comprising NUS School of Computing Information Systems undergraduate Aalok Chhabria and NUS Business School undergraduates Kenneth Heng and Yuan Yi has won second place in CaseIT 2012...

 

 

Professor Bernard Tan Receives International Award for Significant Contributions to Information Systems

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) has named Professor Bernard Tan an AIS Fellow. The Award is presented in recognition of Prof Tan’s outstanding contributions, both locally and globally, to the discipline...

 

 

Professor Ooi Beng Chin Lauded for Pioneering Research in Distributed Database Management and Peer-to-Peer-based Enterprise Quality Management

The IEEE Computer Society has awarded Professor Ooi Beng Chin the 2012 Tsutomu Kanai Award for 2012. The announcement was made in a news release...

 

Year 2011

 

Special Honour for NUS Computing for Voluntary Welfare Organisations

Computing for Voluntary Welfare Organisations (CVWO), initiated by NUS School of Computing Assistant Professor Ben Leong and spearheaded by a group of undergraduates has been awarded the distinguished “Friend of the Lions Befrienders” Award...

 

 

Tribute to SoC Leaders Past & Present in NUS School of Computing Honour Roll

NUS School of Computing (SoC) unveiled its Honour Roll on 23 November 2011.

 

 

Professor Ling Tok Wang Doubly Lauded for Outstanding Contributions to Conceptual Modelling

On 2 November 2011, at the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling in Brussels, Belgium, Professor Ling Tok Wang was formally presented the ER Fellows Award...

 

 

Top National Honours in Science for NUS Computing Dean and Vice Dean

Professor Ooi Beng Chin and Professor Tan Kian Lee have won the President's Science Award for 2011, the highest award in the field in Singapore. They received the award from Singapore President Dr Tony Tan at a ceremony held in Sands Expo & Convention Centre...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Research Fellow Dr Xing Zhenchang Wins ICSM’11 Best Paper Award

NUS School of Computing Lee Kuan Yew Research Fellow Dr Xing Zhenchang and his co-authors have won the Best Paper Award in the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) held...

 

 

Students Win Second Place in Singapore Statistical Poster Competition 2011

A project team mentored by NUS School of Computing Assistant Professor Goh Khim Yong has won second place in the 2011 Singapore Statistical Poster Competition. The winning poster entitled "Facebook Interactions and Sales Revenue" was created by...

 

 

Associate Professor Pan Shan Ling Wins Best Paper of the Year

A paper co-authored by Associate Professor Pan Shan Ling, his PhD student Barney Tan Chee Chang and Professor Raymond Hackney has won the Best Paper of the Year Award for 2010 with the journal of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management...

 

 

First Place for NUS SoC Team at IPPC 2011

A team from NUS School of Computing (SoC) consisting of Associate Professor Lee Wee Sun, Associate Professor David Hsu and PhD student Wu Kegui has won first place in the International Probabilistic Planning Competition (IPPC) 2011...

 

 

Assistant Professor Yin Kang Kang Wins Best Paper Award

A paper entitled “Controllable Hand Deformation from Sparse Examples with Rich Details” written by Assistant Professor Yin Kang Kang and her co-authors has won the Best Paper Award at the ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)...

 

 

Best Paper Award for Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou and Dr Lu Wei

A paper co-authored by Dr Lu Wei and Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou has won the Best Paper Award at the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP 2011). The conference was held in Edinburgh, UK,...

 

 

NUS SoC Teams Clinched Top and Third Prizes at Inaugural SgCodeJam24

A 24-hour programming contest jointly organised by NUS School of Computing (SoC) and Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services,...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Trainers Lead Singapore Team to Second Consecutive Year of Gold at IOI

The 23rd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) was held in the Thai city of Pattaya from 22 to 29 July 2011. The IOI, which is one of the International Science Olympaids, has been described...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Undergraduates Win National Infocomm Scholarship 2011

Ten NUS School of Computing (SoC) undergraduates and prospective students received their National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) awards at a ceremony held on 30 July at the Drama Centre of the School of the Arts...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Commencement 2011

The Fifth of July 2011 marked a memorable day for some 500 NUS School of Computing (SoC) graduates as they attended their Commencement Ceremony at University Cultural Centre (UCC) with their family and friends...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Team Wins Top Award in Competition at ICSE 11

A team of NUS School of Computing (SoC) students, Yi Li, Hang Yang and Huanan Wu clinched the Formal Methods Award for their project “Transport4You” in...

 

 

Most Influential Paper of the Decade Award for Prof Ling Tok Wang

Prof Ling Tok Wang and his co-authors have received the 10-year most influential paper award at DASFAA 2011, held in Hong Kong from 22 to 25 April. The paper, titled...

 

 

Assistant Professor Ben Leong Placed on Honour Roll in Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2011

NUS School of Computing Assistant Professor Ben Leong has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY 2009/2010. A three-time winner of this award,...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Instructor Anand Ramchand Placed on Honour Roll in Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2011

NUS School of Computing Instructor Mr Anand Mohan Ramchand has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY 2009/2010. A three-time winner of this award,...

 

 

Associate Professor Michael Brown Wins Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2009/2010

NUS School Computing Associate Professor Michael Brown has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2009/2010 and was conferred the prize at...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Lecturer Damith C. Rajapakse Wins Teaching Excellence Award 2011

NUS School of Computing Lecturer Dr Rajapakse has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY 2009/2010. The award was conferred at...

 

 

NUS School of Computing Instructor Tan Wee Kek Wins Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2009/2010

NUS School of Computing Instructor Mr Tan Wee Kek has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY 2009/2010. The award was conferred at...

 

 

Associate Professor Yu Haifeng Wins NUS Young Researcher Award 2011

NUS School of Computing Associate Professor Yu Haifeng has won the Young Researcher Award for 2011. He was conferred the award by NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan at the University Awards...

 

 

NUS Team Wins Third Place in CASEIT Competition 2011

A team comprising NUS School of Computing Information Systems undergraduate Lim Wei Yang and NUS Business School undergraduates Joyce Kay and Ervin Lim won third place in the CASEIT 2011 Competition...

 

 

Best Paper Award for Professor Chua Tat Seng and Team

A paper entitled “Generating Representative Views of Landmarks via Scenic Theme Detection” written by Professor Chua Tat-Seng, his PhD student Zhao Yi-Liang, NUS School of Computing...

 

Year 2010

 

Highlights of Events in 2010

2010 has brought NUS School of Computing a number of opportunities in working with various partners to further the Computing message...

 

 

Best Paper Award for Dr Golam Ashraf and Team

Dr Golam Ashraf and his team co-authored the paper entitled “Drafting 2D Characters with Primitive Shape Scaffolds” which won...

 

 

Joint Paper Hailed as Breakthrough in Quantum Theory

Dr Stephanie Wehner, an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to NUS School of Computing’s Department of Computer Science and NUS...

 

 

First Prize for NUS Computing- I²R Team at H-DIBCO 2010

An NUS Computing team, led by Professor Tan Chew Lim and working in collaboration with I²R, has won the first prize at H-DIBCO 2010, a...

 

 

Best Paper Award for NUS Team at ACM Multimedia 2010

A team led by Professor Chua Tat Seng has clinched the Best Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2010. The conference which was held in Florence, Italy...

 

 

A Fresh Graduate’s Perspective of Life after SoC: A Different Startup

As a fresh graduate, will you choose a highly established company for a job that all your peers yearn for, or take a risk in joining a new startup? For 22-year old Akash Nemani who graduated from...

 

 

NUS (Unofficial) Timetable Builder: From Students, for Students

A group of undergraduates from NUS School of Computing (SoC) have created a software application known as the Unofficial NUS timetable builder, offering their peers a new and improved way...

 

 

New Honour for Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou

NUS School of Computing’s Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou has been named ACM Distinguished Scientist.
ACM, which stands for Association of Computing Machinery, is the...

 

 

Gathering of China Internet and Media Entrepreneurs in NUS School of Computing

In an inaugural event put together by NUS School of Computing and supported by NUS Enterprise and Computer and Information Science Alumni Association (CISAA), four internet entrepreneurs gathered...

 

 

Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou Reappointed as Editor-in-Chief of ACM TALIP

NUS School of Computing’s Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou is serving a second term as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), a position to which...

 

 

NUS Computing Alumnus Joins NUS SoC as Adjunct Associate Professor

Dr Ngair Teow Hin has joined NUS School of Computing’s Department of Computer Science as Adjunct Associate Professor. His appointment took effect on 13 August 2010. Dr Ngair graduated with...

 

 

NUS SoC Undergraduates Awarded National Infocomm Scholarship 2010

Four NUS School of Computing (SoC) undergraduates and three prospective students received the National Infocomm Scholarship Award from Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew...

 

 

NUS SoC Professor Chua Tat Seng Appointed AMTC Chairman

NUS School of Computing (SoC) Professor Chua Tat Seng has been appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Asia Media...

 

 

Launch of NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Centre

The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, together with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), are pleased to announce the launch...

 

 

NUS PhD Student Ming Zhaoyan Clinches Award with Innovative Apps

NUS PhD student Ming Zhaoyan has won the Elsevier App Challenge, which was held in conjunction with the ACM SIGIR 2010 Conference...

 

 

Best Paper Award for Associate Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli

Associate Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli has won the Best Paper Award for her paper entitled “Antecedents and Impact of Knowledge Management Capability in Public Organisations”, which...

 

 

Assistant Professor Sharon Tan Shares Expertise at National Health IT Forum

Assistant Professor Sharon Tan Swee Lin delivered a speech on "The psychology of technology adoption and use - implications for health IT" at the IDA ...

 

 

NUS SoC Assistant Professor Rahul Jain Wins Best Paper Award at STOC 2010

NUS School of Computing (SoC) Assistant Professor Rahul Jain received the Best Paper Award at the 42nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) 2010 held from 6 to 8 June 2010...

 

 

A/P Wong Weng Fai and PhD Student Edward Sim Win HiPEAC Paper Award

NUS School of Computing (SoC) Associate Professor Wong Weng Fai (left in picture) and his PhD student Edward Sim Joon (right in picture) have won the HiPEAC Paper award...

 

 

A/P Pan Shan Ling Wins Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY2008/2009

NUS School of Computing (SoC) Associate Professor Pan Shan Ling won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 2008/2009. His award was conferred...

 

 

NUS SoC Assistant Professor Ben Leong Wins Annual Teaching Excellence Award for AY2008/2009

NUS School of Computing (SoC) Assistant Professor Ben Leong has won the Annual Teaching Excellence Award...

 

 

Professor Ling Tok Wang Wins Outstanding Contributions Award at DASFAA 2010

Professor Ling Tok Wang (left in picture) has been presented the DASFAA Outstanding Contributions Award for his work in...

 

 

NUS SoC Lecturer Aaron Tan Wins a Spot on Annual Teaching Honour Roll

NUS School of Computing (SoC) Lecturer Aaron Tan Tuck Choy has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award...

 

 

A/P Teo Yong Meng and PhD student Marian Mihailescu Win Best Paper Award

Associate Professor Teo Yong Meng (left in picture) and his PhD student Marian Mihailescu (right in picture) have won...

 

 

Joint Team of NUS Computing and Business Students Wins Third Spot in CaseIT 2010

A team of three NUS students have beaten over a dozen other teams from various universities in an international competition on...

 

 

NUS Computing PhD Student Wins MSRA Fellowship Award

Zhang Bingjun (right in picture) has been named a recipient of the Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship Award. At a ceremony...

 

 

Announcing the First Winner of the All New FYP-Innovation Award

NUS Computing Year 4 undergraduate Lin Tingji Jovian has walked away with a cash prize of S$2,000...

 

Year 2009

 

 

Best Paper Award for Assistant Professor Sharon Tan at ICIS 2009

Assistant Professor Sharon Tan won Best Paper Award at the 8th Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, Phoenix, Arizona, held on...

 

 

Professor Ling Tok Wang Named ACM Distinguished Scientist

Prof Ling Tok Wang has been named ACM Distinguished Scientist for 2009. The award is conferred on ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience...

 

 

Professor Mohan Kankanhalli

Professor Mohan Kankanhalli has been named Editorial Board Member of the Year for his work with the Multimedia Systems Journal, a prestigious...

 

 

Professor Tan Kian Lee

Professor Tan Kian Lee has been elected an Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal, beginning Sept 2009 for six years. The VLDB Journal is a premium...

 

 

Assistant Professor Rahul Jain

Assistant Professor Rahul Jain announced in August 2009 a breakthrough paper in which he showed that quantum interactive proof systems...

 

 

Assistant Professor Liang Zhenkai and Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury

Assistant Professor Liang Zhenkai and Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury won the Distinguished Paper Award...

 

 

Assistant Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli

Assistant Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli was invited as a workshop and panel speaker on "Development and Trends of E-Business in Asia", NTUST, Taipei,...

 

 

Associate Professor Teo Hock Hai

Associate Professor Teo Hock Hai has been invited to serve in the following capacities: Judge for IT Youth Award 2009 (Singapore Computing Society)...

 

 

Best PhD Student Paper Award from Claudia Szabo

SoC PhD student Claudia Szabo has been conferred the ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling Best PhD Student...

 

 

Felix Halim Gets 2nd Spot in Best Student Paper Award

SoC PhD student Felix Halim was the Best Student Paper runner-up at the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management...

 

 

National University of Singapore and Brown University Formalises Concurrent Degree Programme in Computational Biology

The National University of Singapore and Brown University have formalised an agreement to set up a concurrent degree programme in computational biology...

 

 

NUS SoC Teams Chalk Up Top-10 Results in Latest Regional Round of ACM ICPC

A total of 19 winners from NUS School of Computing (SoC) will be walking away with the spoils of their toil at the presentation ceremony...

 

 

Undergraduate Wong Wei Ming: Three Times a Winner in 2009

NUS Computing Year 4 undergraduate Wong Wei Ming has done his country and School proud by representing Singapore as a...

 

 

NUS Student Achievement Awards 2009: Showcase of Multi-faceted Talent from Computing

A total of 19 winners from NUS School of Computing (SoC) will be walking away with the spoils of their toil at the presentation ceremony...

 

 

Jack Neo and Boris Boo Visit NUS School of Computing

It was a memorable morning for all participants of a unique Panel Discussion Session organised by Assistant Professor Michael Brown...

 

 

Networking Opportunities for SoC Students with Information Security Experts in Singapore

Students in NUS School of Computing (SoC) may now be privy to trends and developments in Singapore’s information...

 

 

SoC Assistant Professor Honoured in Inaugural President's Young Scientist Awards

To movie buffs, the name Sybil may invoke memories of a 1970s movie and a
recent remake about a woman who exhibited...

 

 

SoC Professor Clinches Top Prize with Algorithm in Document Image Analysis and Recognition

Professor Tan Chew Lim, the resident expert in document analysis research at
NUS School of Computing (SoC), has developed...

 

 

NUS SoC Dean Recognized for Sustained Contributions to Database Systems and Database Management Research

Professor Ooi Beng Chin has been conferred the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award fro 2009. ACM SIGMOD stands for...

 

 

NUS SoC Professors Inducted as Fellows of Singapore Computer Society

Professor Chua Tat Seng and Associate Professor Leong Hon Wai have been honoured for their contributions to the computing fraternity and industry in Singapore. They have been named...

 

 

SoC Alumnus Victor Tong Joo Chuan Honoured for His Inspirational Example to Youths in Science and Technology

Dr Victor Tong Joo Chuan, NUS School of Computing Class of 2002, has added another feather to his cap. He has won...

 

  NUS SoC Research Breaks New Ground with Landmark Search Engine

Users who come across the photograph of an unknown landmark on the Web
may now search for its name. This has been made possible...

 

  Gaming Remote Takes on Radiology Lab… with the Help of SoC Software Expertise

SoC Assistant Professor Michael Brown and his graduate student Lu Zheng have
worked with doctors in the US to develop new software...

 

 

Commencement 2009:
Celebration of Student Achievements, Faculty Mentorship and Other Honours

NUS School of Computing marks the graduation of a new cohort of students this
year on 11 July. In total, the School is graduating 375 Bachelor’s degree...

 

  SoC Associate Professor Wins IBM Faculty Award for Work in Formal Specification and Validation

A number of industries like transportation, avionics and communication are
witnessing a proliferation of large-scale control systems involving...

 

  Bumper Crop of Talent from Inaugural Starhub - NUS Asian IT Case Competition

They may not be veterans of IT case studies competitions but they certainly have
made an impression with the movers and...

 

 

SoC Information Systems Professor Spearheads Asian-based IT Case Studies Repository

The Asian IT Case Series (AITCS) is a repository specialising in case materials
about Asian organisations. Particularly, the case studies focus...

 

  NUS MComp-MBA Team Wins with Creative Solution to NYC Problem in International Case Competition on Strategic Management with IT

A three-member team from NUS School of Computing and NUS Business School
have bested all but one rival team in the first...

 

  Of Burgers, Problem Solving, Guitar Music and ACM ICPC World Finals

A team of three SoC undergraduates have been chosen from a field of 300,000
students in computing disciplines worldwide, and have outshone...

 

  NUS Partners Polytechnics on New Preparatory Programme to Nurture Information Security Specialist

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is collaborating with three local
polytechnics to introduce a Preparatory Programme for...

 

Year 2008

 

 

Team NUS-SoC Wins US$100,000 at International Search Engine Competition

A team that includes two recent multimedia graduates from NUS School of
Computing has trumped their rivals from...

 

  Wowing the Home Crowd with Individual Talent and Group Spirit:
SoC at NUS Student Achievement Awards 2008

For those who might be tracking news on outstanding youths in Singapore,
Winne Soh (Class of 2008) and Travis Ho...

 

  SoC’s Strongest Showing at National Infocomm Scholarships 2008

A bumper crop of 11 students from NUS School of Computing (SoC) have won
this year’s National Infocomm Scholarships...

 

 

SoC Celebrates Milestone in Institutional and Singapore Computing History

Some 470 staff, students, alumni, industry partners and well-wishers turned out in
force for SoC 10th Anniversary...

 

  Announcing the Winners of Outstanding Computing Alumni Award 2008

On 23 August 2008, NUS School of Computing marked a milestone in institutional
history and computing...

 

  Home-grown Talent from SoC Class of 2002 Wins Top Global Award for Vaccine Work

Dr Victor Tong Joo Chuan (pictured right), NUS School of Computing Class of
2002, has won the coveted TR35 award...

 

  Strong Turnout at NUS School of Computing Public Symposium

In the afternoon of 20 August 2008, a 300-strong audience thronged Seminar
Room 1 at COM1 for the NUS School of Computing...

 

  A Father's Legacy: Lim Hong Chin Memorial Scholarship

In the 1890s, a penniless young man from Hainan, China, came to Malaya in a
junk boat with dreams of forging a better...

 

  Associate Professor Leong Hon Wai Wins USP Teaching Award

Associate Professor Leong Hon Wai has been named the sole winner of the
University Scholars Programme (USP) Award...

 

  SoC @ NUS Commencement 2008: Fine Showing off Excellence in Diversity

NUS School of Computing (SoC) celebrated the varied and colourful achievements
of its Class of 2008 across three...

 

  SoC Clinches Double Honours at Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award 2008

Too many functionalities in daily life are software controlled, and reliable software development is thus of great...

 

  Outstanding Computing Alumni Award: Nominations

As part of SoC 10th Anniversary celebrations, NUS School of Computing (SoC)
is launching the annual...

 

  Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf Shares His Thoughts on the Digital Future with the SoC Community and Partners

On 23 May 2008, some 400 people thronged an auditorium at NUS School of
Computing (SoC) to listen to a talk on....

 

  SoC Graduate Student Emerges Winner in Top Research Competition

Final-year PhD student David Lo has clinched second place in the ACM Student
Research Competition (SRC) for 2007/8 with his novel....

 

  NUS School of Computing: Celebrating 10 Years as a Faculty & 33 Years of Computing Excellence

Come 1 July 2008, NUS School of Computing will be 10 years old as a faculty.
Yet its history stretches more than two decades beyond that....

 

  SoC Professors Recognised for Impactful Research Contributions and Commitment to Excellence in Teaching

Associate Professor Ken Sung Wing-Kin has been conferred the NUS Young
Researcher Award for 2008. He received the award for his work in....

 

  SoC Hosts 11th NOI

The National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), organised by the National University
of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing, presented a total of 11 prizes to...

 

  Meeting of Mind among Students, Industry and Academia at Inaugural Sun-NUS Open Source Day

The inaugural Sun-NUS Open Source Day took off on a positive note on 28
March 2008. Jointly organised by Sun Microsystems and NUS School of Computing,...

 

  SoC Launches Specialisation in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME)

From Academic Year 2008/9, students in NUS School of Computing (SoC)
majoring in Information Systems may opt for the new...

 

  SoC Celebrates Double Wins at IT Leader Awards 2008

On 29 February 2008, five individuals were honoured with the IT Leader Awards
for their leadership, integrity, achievements...

 

  SoC Postdoctoral Fellow Panagiotis Karras Wins Young Scientist Award in Hong Kong

Dr Panagiotis Karras, a Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellow with NUS School of Computing, has been honoured for his work in...

 

  SoC Assistant Professor Ooi Wei Tsang Wins Best Paper Award in International Multimedia Conference

Dr Panagiotis Karras, a Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellow with NUS School of Computing, has been honoured for his work in...

 

  SoC Associate Professor Triple Win in NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award

Associate Professor Gary Tan has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for the third time. The award is given by the University to recognise faculty members who are...

 

  SoC Associate Professor Ken Sung Wins 2008 NUS Young Researcher Award

Associate Professor Ken Sung Wing-Kin has been conferred the NUS Young Researcher Award for 2008. The award recognises his work in algorithm and its application to...

 

  SoC Professor Lends Expertise to Microsoft Academic Advisory Board

SoC Professor Ivan Png has been named one of 17 leading academic and corporate professionals on Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board....

 

  Professor Bernard Tan Elected President of International Organisation in Information Systems

Professor Bernard Tan has been elected President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). AIS is the organisation representing all faculty members in the field...

 

  Associate Professor Teo Hock Hai Elected Regional Councillor of International Organisation in Information Systems

Associate Professor Teo Hock Hai has been chosen as its Asia-Pacific Councillor of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). AIS is the organisation representing all faculty members in the field...

 

Year 2007

 

  SoC Infocomm Fest: Fostering Interest in Infocomm Knowledge and Computational Thinking

Some 600 youths from Singapore and the region have participated in the inaugural
SoC Infocomm Fest. Held over a week...

 

  SoC @ NUS Student Achievement Awards 2007

Celebrating diversity in excellence among its students, NUS School of Computing
(SoC) is proud to note that nine of its students...

 

  Sun University Day @ NUS

On 24 October 2007, Mr Ian Murdock, Chief OS Platform Strategist of Sun
Microsystems, made a whistle stop...

 

  To Prof with Thanks @ Homecoming 2007

Alumni of NUS School of Computing (SoC) and its predecessor, the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS)...

 

  Fine Showing by SoC at NIS 2007

NUS School of Computing (SoC) students have made a fine showing at this year's National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) awards. Seven of them won...

 

  SoC Biometric Research in the News

NUS School of Computing researchers have developed a new information security system that minimises the risk of a computer system being hijacked...

 

  SoC Keeps Up Momentum for New Initiatives in AY 2007/8

NUS School of Computing is moving into the new academic year with a new management team at its helm. Professor Ooi Beng Chin has assumed leadership...

 

  Perfect Score for SoC Pioneers in SAP Best Practices Certification

A group of 10 undergraduates from different years and courses of study in SoC have successfully completed an intensive training programme in...

 

  SoC Celebrates Commencement 2007 amid Bright Outlook for Infocomm Professionals

As Academic Year 2006/7 draws to a close, SoC is joining other faculties on campus in celebration at Commencement 2007, which marks the beginning...
 

  SoC Team Outmanoeuvres Rivals in Competition on Artifical Intelligence in Games

A three-man team from SoC led by Research Fellow Lim Yew Jin, and including undergraduates Lim Zhan Wei and Travis Ho, has clinched the top spot...

 

  CompClub Organises National-wide LAN Gaming Festival

National University of Singapore (NUS) Students’ Computing Club, the student body of NUS School of Computing (SoC) is holding one of the most...

 

  Jobs Aplenty for Infocomm Professionals with Deep Technical & Domain Expertise

Graduates entering the workforce with sound technical fundamentals may expect to find themselves in great demand at home and beyond. That was the upbeat...

 

  Success that goes beyond Sky-High: The FriarTuck Story

Potential students and other visitors touring the SoC campus may notice the SoC Incubation Centre. That is where budding technopreneurs from among ...
 

  SoC Host 10th National Olympiad in Informatics

The National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing, presented...

 

  SoC Chalks up Twin Achievements

New Concurrent Programme in Interactive Digital Media with CMU ABET Recognition for Computer Science & Information Systems Programmes...

 

  Joint Entry with Industry Makes Mark in International Timetabling Competition

The task was to solve a problem in automated timetabling against rival teams. The test was to present the technique and model for handling the scheduling problem...

 

  SoC Assistant Professor Wins Award for Sensor Network Research

Dr Yu was conferred the NUS Young Investigator Award on 8 December 2007. The Award is administered by the National University's Officer of Deputy President...

 

  Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou Wins Prestigious Award for Contributions to Natural Language Processing

Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou has been presented the prestigious Defence Technology Prize Team Award (R&D) for his outstanding technological contributions to work...

 

  SoC Associate Professor Wins Prestigious Award

Associate Professor Leow Wee Kheng received the Andrew P Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in a ceremony...

 

  SoC Professor Lauded for Most Influential Paper

Professor Joxan Jaffar has received an award from the Association of Logic Programming for the most influential paper...

 

  Novel Expert Analysis of Paintings Wins Best Paper Award

Visual characteristics of paintings such as colour, brushwork and composition constitute a large body of artistic concepts that facilitate expert analysis...

 

Year 2003 - 2006

 

  Information Mining for Digital Libraries Project Wins HP Grant

An NUS School of Computing (SoC) research project aimed at easing the burden of information retrieval for educationists and students...
 

  SoC Students Turn Enterprising Dreams into Reality

SoC Fourth Year student Jason Quek goes beyond taking his personal aspirations of entrepreneurship into fruition. He invites his friend and fellow SoC student...
 

  SoC Assistant Professor Lauded for Work on Human Genome

SoC Assistant Professor Ken Sung Wing Kin has won the prestigious National Science Award (NSA) for his contribution in developing an innovative...

 

  Beyond Bytes and Chips: SoC Student Noted for Alternative Achievement

An infocomm trail-blazer in full biker’s gear on a cool Harley…

A software engineer in climbing gear posing fearlessly, dangling from a sheer cliff face…

 

  SoC Students Outshine Over 500 Competitors to Clinch Coveted Scholarships

Three SoC students have won the National Infocomm Scholarships (NIS) this year,
given in recognition of excellent academic results, passion for infocomm and...

 

  SoC Student Start-up Cited in the News

Michael Yin Xinyi and Jet Tan Zhen Qiang, both PhD students in SoC, have made the news with their entrepreneurial efforts...

 

  Top Students Honoured at Corporate Affiliates Day

In the afternoon of 23 August 2006, LT 34 saw a temporary change of occupants from the usual lecture crowd to a mix of the brightest and the distinguished...
 

  Delegation from Thailand's Tak Province Visits SoC On Study Tour

NUS School of Computing (SoC) hosted a visit by a delegation of government officials and civil service staff from Thailand’s Tak province on 5 July 2006. 

 

  SoC Professor Honoured for Sustained Contribution to Science and Technology

SoC Professor Wong Lim Soon has been conferred the Singapore Youth Awards (SYA) Medal of Commendation 2006...
 

  SoC Start-up Clinches Grand Prize in National Entrepreneurship Competition

SoC graduates Varun Chatterji, Rishi Israni and Indradeep Biswas must be rather proud of their achievements over the past year: Their start-up company, tenCube...
 

  NOI Pitches in with New National Initiative to Promote Infocomm

The National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), an annual competition organised by NUS School of Computing (SoC) since 1998, has now become part of the...

 

  SoC Assistant Professor Wins Prestigious Research Award

SoC Assistant Professor Terence Sim is this year’s winner of the Temasek Young Investigator Award...
 

  SoC Dissertation Scores a First for Singapore

Many SoC students would know Assistant Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli as their lecturer in Electronic Government, Information Organisation and other...

 

  E-Government Study Spotlights Singapore's IT Standing

SARS has put Singapore to the test in many ways – and the nation has emerged resilient. In terms of IT, the country has scored well too – according to a research....

 

  National Infocomm Scholars from SoC

The School congratulates the six SoC undergraduates who are among the second batch of recipients of the National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS). They received...

 

  Direct Entry to Four-Year (Honours) Programmes

Beginning January 2005, the School of Computing will offer DIRECT ENTRY to FOUR-YEAR (HONOURS) PROGRAMMES leading to Honours classification...

 

  SoC Professor Honoured for Sustained Contribution to Science and Technology

SoC Professor Wong Lim Soon has been conferred the Singapore Youth Awards (SYA) Medal of Commendation 2006...

 

  Associate Professor Stanislaw Jarzabek Recognised for Work in Software Engineering

Associate Professor Stanislaw Jarzabek has won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. The recognition is for the work entitled "Eliminating Redundancies with...