1 November 2022 — Congrats to Zacchaeus Chok Yong Hsin, a 2^nd year student from NUS School of Computing who clinched the grand prize at the 2022 Asia Pacific Huawei Developer Competition.

His idea “Genesis”, a synthetic data platform that helps firms anonymize, generate and analyze synthetic datasets beat more than 260 participants from nine countries, to come out tops. The competition attracted more than 130 teams across the region, with 9 finalists pitching their projects to the judges at the finals in Bangkok in September 2022.

04 October 2022 — It was indeed a serendipitous moment for 8-year-old Tin Jingyao when he stumbled upon a game of chess on his aunt’s computer out of boredom on a dreary afternoon in 2008. There was no turning back since. The plucky young enthusiast discovered his innate talent for the game and went on to hone his skills with great mastery, competing in his first chess tournament just a year later.

12 September 2022 — NUS Computing professors David Hsu and Lee Wee Sun, along with their research collaborators, have won the 2022 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award for their paper on planning for uncertainty in artificial intelligence.