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What began with a $2,000 seed fund has become one of NUS School of Computing’s largest flagship events.The 28th edition of STePS brought close to 95 student projects across 11 tracks into COM3, drawing over 1,000  guests – from faculty and industry leaders to government agencies, sponsors, and investors.

There’s a particular kind of restlessness that drives someone to build things when no one is asking them to. For Andre Liu, a Year 1 Computer Science student with a minor in Mathematics at NUS School of Computing (SoC), that itch showed up early – in middle school, in hackathon halls, in the quiet corners of National Service (NS).

Two papers from the Augmented Human Lab have earned Honourable Mention Awards at ACM CHI 2026, the world’s leading conference in human-computer interaction. The award recognises the top 5% of accepted papers for their originality, rigour, and potential impact.

A new model that teaches AI to understand and create music – across audio waveforms, symbolic notation, and text – has won Best Paper Award at the 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2026), held in Prague, Czech Republic from 29 to 31 January 2026.

Two faculty members from NUS Computing have been selected as StarTrack scholars by Microsoft Research Asia, Assistant Professor Yatao Bian and Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor Jialin Li.

The AI for Social Good (AI4SG) Lab, led by Assistant Professor Lee Yi-Chieh from the Department of Computer Science, has earned four Honourable Mention Awards at ACM CHI 2026 – the world's premier conference in human-computer interaction.