DBS Bank, A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have formed a three-year partnership whereby NUS students will have the opportunity to work on real banking challenges with data analytics experts from I2R and professionals at DBS at the DBS-I2R laboratory established in 2014.

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13 November 2015 – Second year Information Systems students Ron Teo De-Zhao and Yang Jing recently won the Best Innovation (Asia Pacific) prize at Taiwan’s 2015 International ICT Innovative Services (InnoServe) Contest, for their summer project ATHENA.

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30 October 2015 – A team of five NUS students won one of the top five prizes of US$20,000, as well as the top Blockchain sponsored prize of US$5,000 in Bitcoin, at the 2015 Money 20/20 Hackathon, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in late October.

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21 October 2015 – Fourth year Electronic Commerce student Choo Yan Sheng and his teammates won first place at the Super Heroes vs Master Hackers hackathon in New York City, USA, early this month. Yan Sheng, who is in the NUS Overseas College (NOC) New York programme, teamed up with fellow NOC students from Business School, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Yale-NUS, as well as a Business School alumnus.

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15 October 2015 – Information Systems third year student, Lin Baoyu, and fourth year students, Lee Yuan Guang, Loi Liang Yang and Jason Sim Meng Kiat, collectively known as Team EnthuSIAst, won the inaugural Singapore Airlines (SIA) App Challenge that was held between 3 to 10 October 2015.

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15 July 2015 – Associate Professor Jack Jiang Zhenhui has been elected as the new chair of the Association for Information Systems’ (AIS) Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction SIGHCI (SIGHCI).

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14 July 2015 – Associate Professor Kaushik Dutta has been named one of the winners of IGI Global’s Seventh Annual Excellence in Research Journal Awards.

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9 July 2015 – Early last month, third year IS student Jacob Tan Jia Wen became one of only three people worldwide to win the SAP Fiori UX Design and Build Challenge 2015.

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29 June 2015 – Earlier this month, Prasanta Bhattacharya won one of three Best Presentation awards at the Universitas 21 Graduate Research Conference in Shanghai, China, for his talk on the use of computational approaches to study human behaviour from big data.

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Information Systems student Jacob Tan, who is an intern at Blue Ocean Systems, a Singapore-based SAP partner, shares that he sees the latest Fiori Massive Open Online Courses as the next logical step in his SAP HANA platform education.

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In a contribution for TODAY’s Science section, Associate Professor Anindya Datte from the Department of Information Systems writes that he and a group of scientists at NUS launched Mobilewalla, a media technology start-up venture. They invented an entirely new class of big-data techniques to measure app audiences. With this method, they are able to find mobile applications that have a high likelihood of possessing similar audience characteristics.

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In a contribution for TODAY’s Science section, Professor Mohan kankanhalli from the Department of Information Systems writes that he and a group of scientists at NUS launched Mobilewalla, a media technology start-up venture and invented an entirely new class of big-data techniques to measure app audiences. With this method, they are able to find mobile applications that have a high likelihood of possessing similar audience characteristics.

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In a contribution for TODAY’s Science section, Professor Ng Hwee Tou from the Department of Computer Science writes that he and his team have developed an automatic grammar checker for the English language that can help learners of English improve their grammar at their own pace.

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21 April 2015 – A team of four NUS alumni beat 37 other teams at BattleHack Singapore with Jarvis, a medication supply management app that they developed during the 24-hour hackathon in late March.

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8 April 2015 – First year NUS Computing students Ronald Kan Wai Leong (Information Systems), Tan Boon Jun (Information Systems), Nicholas Ooi Hsien Loong (Electronic Commerce) and Goh Yuan Tat (Computer Science) are the first place winners of The Great Nabu Challege,

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First year NUS Computing students Ronald Kan Wai Leong (Information Systems), Tan Boon Jun (Information Systems), Nicholas Ooi Hsien Loong (Electronic Commerce) and Goh Yuan Tat (Computer Science) are the first place winners of The Great Nabu Challege, a hackathon that began with a briefing at the end of September 2014 and concluded recently with its Grand Finals at the IDA Labs@HQ at the end of March this year.

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Team Jarvis, comprising Information Systems alumnus Rajul Gupta, clinched the first prize at the second annual BattleHack Singapore 2015 organised by online payment providers PayPal and Braintree. The team came up with an app that monitors and allows the remote purchase of medication for the elderly.

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25 March 2015 - Two NUS Computing students were part of a team that won second place in the inaugural Manpower Hackathon that was held in early February.

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With no interest in studying and thoroughly convinced he will never do well, M Thirukkumaran was on a downward spiral in secondary school and was almost retained in Secondary One and Two. 10 years later, Thiru, 23, is now studying Business Analytics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) under NEA and PUB’s National Environment and Water (NEW) Scholarship.

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IT and healthcare experts from around the world gathered at the 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare held from 22 to 24 July to discuss the application of the two types of technologies in a clinical setting. The Conference was organised by NUS’ Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) and the NUS School of Computing’s Department of Information Systems.

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