21 November 2019 – Final year Computer Science student Caryn Heng and Computer Engineering student Francis Lee won the top prize at the Global Virtual Reality (VR) Championship Hackathon 2019 held in Shanghai, China, from 4 to 7 November.

20 November 2019 – Third year Business Analytics student Cai Shuhang won the first place prize in The GoldenHack competition held from 5 to 6 October this year. The GoldenHack is a business hackathon for students in Waterloo, Canada, to solve challenging problems over 24 hours.

19 November 2019 – Computer Science PhD students Tran Duc Muoi and Wang Taining were conferred the 2019 Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship on 8 November. Muoi and Taining received their award at MSRA’s Academic Day 2019 event held at the MSRA headquarters in Beijing, China.