5 Jun 2023 — NUS Computing Assistant Professor Nakyung Kyung and collaborators won the Health Information Technology (IT) in Action award at the 13th Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) for their paper on the application of machine-learning techniques on a mobile healthcare platform.

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30 May 2023 — Held in conjunction with NUS Computing’s 25^th 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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29 May 2023 - Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme (SBIP), hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing, and InterOpera have successfully completed a nine-month Proof of Concept (PoC) with InterOpera to develop a model of interoperability for regulated capital markets, to tackle cross-chain connectivity while automating regulatory requirements in capital markets. This potentially optimises existing capital market transactions by lowering operational costs, increasing market liquidity, and creating new investment options.

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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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15 May 2023 — The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and School of Computing (NUS Computing) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wuxi Economic Development District (WEDD) on 5 May 2023, to advance collaboration in research and development (R&D), and talent cultivation in Big Data, Business Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.

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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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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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2 May 2023 — NUS Computing Assistant Professor Sun Chenshuo has won New York University (NYU)’s University-wide Outstanding Dissertation Award for his doctoral dissertation, “Emerging Technologies and the Digital Future.” Each NYU school is invited to nominate a total of three candidates every year. Candidates are screened vigorously for the rigor, clarity, and impact of their research work on the academic field and society. Nine awardees are selected in AY23 across all the NYU schools, and Dr. Sun is among the three awardees under the Social Science category.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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10 January 2023 ­– Associate Professor Goh Khim Yong and Ph.D. student Guo Yutong who are both from the Department of Information Systems and Analytics (DISA), won the Best Paper Award in the Digital and Mobile Commerce track and the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2022 International Conference Information Systems (ICIS). 

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