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Singapore Vision Day 2023

30 May 2023 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Research , News Media , Algorithms & Theory , Artificial Intelligence

 

30 May 2023 — Held in conjunction with NUS Computing’s 25th Anniversary, the inaugural Singapore Vision Day 2023 welcomed for the first time in Singapore over 170 computer vision researchers in academia and the industry to foster an exchange of research ideas and build a community of experts in computer vision. It was also an opportunity for computing students to get exposure to industry participants and to engage companies that plan to incorporate computer vision in their future R&D plans.

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Provost’s Chair Professor Abhik Roychoudhury wins the Most Influential Paper at ICSE 2023

24 May 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research

 

24 May 2023 — NUS Computing Provost’s Chair Professor Abhik Roychoudhury has won the Most Influential Paper award at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023. The conference took place this year between 14 to 20 May 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.

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National University of Singapore's Professor Reza Shokri Receives Prestigious Asian Young Scientist Fellowship

11 May 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research

 

11 May 2023 — In a significant achievement for the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing, Professor Reza Shokri, holding the distinguished position of NUS Presidential Young Professor in Computer Science, has been recognized as one of the inaugural recipients of the esteemed Asian Young Scientist Fellowship (AYSF) for 2023.

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NUS undergraduates emerged as champions in JTC Future of Mobility Case Challenge 2023

10 May 2023 Department of Computer Science , Student , Research , Artificial Intelligence

 

10 May 2023 — The JTC Future of Mobility Challenge 2023 is a competition hosted by JTC with partnerships with ABB and Hyundai. Tertiary students from multidisciplinary backgrounds gather to compete in either one of two case challenges set by the organisers. Each team then presents their innovative idea to a panel of judges from Hyundai, JTC, and ABB department leads. The top two winners of each case challenge will walk away with $1,500 and $500 in cash respectively.

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Mining the marvellous richness of the human singing voice

19 April 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research , Feature

 

Sound and music have always been a big part of Wang Ye’s life, guiding him through a career that has spanned being a research engineer at Nokia in Finland to an associate professor at NUS’s School of Computing. “Everybody, including myself, likes music,” says Wang, who leads the Sound and Music Computing Lab.

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Spotting concurrency bugs in software with sampling

19 April 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research , Feature

 

In the summer of 1983, the government organisation Atomic Energy of Canada Limited launched its newest radiation therapy machine. The Therac-25 was highly anticipated — it boasted a revolutionary dual treatment mode (employing either a powerful electron beam or X-rays to kill cancer cells), was more compact than its predecessors, and could be controlled entirely by a computer.

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Building a better detector to guard computers against malicious hardware attacks

11 April 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research , Feature

 

The past few years have been a mixed bag for facial recognition. In 2017, the technology stepped into the global spotlight as Apple launched the iPhone X — its first smartphone to rely on face, rather than fingerprint, scanning for authentication.

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NUS Fintech Society Hosts Third Successful Fintech Month

30 March 2023 Department of Computer Science , Student , FinTech

 

30 March 2023 – The National University of Singapore (NUS) Fintech Society successfully hosted its annual flagship event, NUS Fintech Month, in January 2023. The event, which was sponsored by Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and Panda Commercial Bank Plc, provided a platform for an inspiring display of ideas, talent, and heart in the fintech industry.

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Professor Ooi Beng Chin joins the prestigious ranks of Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng)

28 March 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research , Programming Languages & Software Engineering , Healthcare Informatics , Artificial Intelligence , Security , Database , FinTech

 

28 March 2023 – Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor Ooi Beng Chin from the NUS School of Computing has been elected as Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Engineering, Singapore (SAEng) in February 2023. The SAEng serves as a think tank on engineering-related public policy and steers initiatives in the areas of strategic importance to Singapore so as to meet the challenges of the new millennium.

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New Algorithm Revolutionises a Decades-Old Estimation Problem

27 March 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research , Feature

 

When Covid-19 came barrelling through the world, it upended nearly every aspect of our lives, forcing us to live, work, and play in completely new ways. We became accustomed to things we previously held off as a last resort or long resisted — things like face masks, Zoom, and having our movements monitored.

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NUS Presidential Young Professor Yang You and PhD students win Distinguished Paper award at AAAI-23 Conference

23 March 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , Research , Artificial Intelligence

 

23 March 2023 ­— NUS Computing Assistant Professor Yang You and Ph.D. students, along with collaborators from Bytedance, has won the Distinguished Paper award for their paper on click-through rate (CTR) model training. 

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Making IoT devices that are everlasting

09 March 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research , Feature

 

If you awoke this morning feeling a little more tired than usual, you might have glanced at your FitBit to see how many REM sleep cycles you clocked last night. Perhaps you then stumbled into the kitchen to grab an espresso (brewed fresh while you were getting dressed, thanks to a nifty app on your phone). And as you do, your smart fridge announces that you’re running out of milk, so you tell Alexa to add it to the weekly shopping list.

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NUS Computing Ph.D. Student wins second place in ACM SIGPLAN Conference Student Research Competition

06 February 2023 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , Research

 

6 February 2023 ­­– NUS Computing Ph.D. student Zhong Yuyi won second place in the Student Research Competition at the ACM SIGPPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Application: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), for her paper on neural network verification.

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NUS Computing professor and researchers clinch the Best BNI Paper award at the 2022 ACM Multimedia Conference

02 February 2023 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research

 

2 February 2023 — NUS Computing professor and researchers clinched the Best BNI (Brave New Ideas) Paper award for their work on narrative generation at the ACM Multimedia Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal between 10-14 October 2022.

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First EGOI female gold medallist awarded NUS Merit Scholarship at official launch of Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence (CeNCE)

19 January 2023 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , Programming Languages & Software Engineering , Algorithms & Theory

 

19 January 2023 – Minister of State Gan Siow Huang recently officiated at the launch of the Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence (CeNCE), a learning space established in February 2022 by the NUS School of Computing (NUS Computing) to develop core computing competencies among both pre-university and university students.

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NUS Computing and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) joint Ph.D. student named as EECS Rising Star 2022

03 January 2023 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Student

 

3 January 2023 — NUS Computing and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) joint Ph.D. in Computer Science candidate, Priyanka Golia has been selected as one of the EECS Rising Stars at the annual Rising Stars programme for 2022. She is a final-year Ph.D. candidate and advised by NUS Presidential Young Professor, Assistant Professor Kuldeep S. Meel, and IIT Associate Professor Subhajit Roy.

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NUS Computing Professor Xiao Xiaokui elevated to IEEE Fellow

04 January 2023 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Research

 

4 January 2023 — Professor Xiao Xiaokui from the Department of Computer Science has been elevated to an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to data privacy and graph data management.

An IEEE Fellow is a prestigious position reserved for select IEEE members who have contributed immensely to the field of engineering, science, and technology. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.  

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NUS Computing students finished second in close fight at the ICPC Asia Ho Chi Minh Regional Contest 2022

21 December 2022 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , Teaching

 

21 December 2022 — NUS Computing teams brought back great results from the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Ho Chi Minh Regional Contest 2022 held from 8 to 9 December 2022.  

ICPC is the world’s oldest and most established algorithmic programming contest for university students. Teams of three university students race against the clock to solve as many of the algorithmic problems presented. Top-scoring teams from the ICPC regional contests will receive the opportunity to compete in the contest's annual global championship round—the ICPC World Finals.

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Computing x Music: NUS Computing students present 2nd Artificial Intelligence Concert

29 November 2022 CSNEWS Department of Computer Science , Student , Artificial Intelligence

 

29 November 2022 — Can Artificial Intelligence replace musicians? Probably not, but they can definitely help musicians unlock their creativity. The Sound & Music Computing for Human Health & Potential (SMC4HHP) seminar and concert held at Innovation 4.0 on Saturday, 12 November 2022 proved just that.

This was the second live concert hosted by the Sound & Music Computing (SMC) Lab to showcase the talent and creativity of NUS Computing students. Its performers included lab members and students of CS4347/CS5647 Sound and Music Computing module taught by Associate Professor Wang Ye from the Department of Computer Science.

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21st STePS makes a comeback in 2022!

17 November 2022 Department of Computer Science , Student , Programming Languages & Software Engineering

 

16 Nov 2022 – The School of Computing was once again abuzz with creative energy as some 120 students presented 40 innovative projects across 4 tracks to over 600 guests and industry sponsors at the 21st STePS (SOC Term Project Showcase).

Touted as the biggest developer centric event at the NUS School of Computing, the brainchild of Prof Anand Bhojan can be described as a mini tradeshow that provides a platform for selected student projects to be showcased to peers, industry sponsors, government agencies and interested parties.  

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