To Computer Engineering alumnus Liu Tianwei, an internship at Silicon Valley in the United States — when he was still an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) — proved to be an event that defined the course of his career. The stint laid the foundation for him to start his own company — online peer-to-peer payments start-up Xfers.

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Online marketplace Carousell has expanded its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region with the acquisition of Malaysian-based mobile classifieds start-up Duriana. One of the co-founders of Carousell is Lucas Ngoo, an alumnus of the Computer Engineering program.

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Assistant professor Prateek Saxena from the Department of Computer Science has been included in the 2016 MIT 'Innovators Under 35' list, which recognises young innovators whose technical work promises great contributions to the world.

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Carousell, a consumer-to-consumer marketplace for the buying and selling of goods, announces its expansion into Australia. One of Carousell's co-founders is Lucas Ngoo, an Computer Engineering alumnus.

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29 November 2016 - Two NUS Computing alumni won the Y Combinator (YC) Fellowship, which gave them the opportunity to work with Y Combinator at Silicon Valley for two months (June to July) this year to refine their startup and refine their pitch to investors.

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NUS Computing alumnus Zhao Liang is a co-founder of real-time, location and algorithm based deals aggregator app Tuitui, which uses push notifications on smartphones to alert users whenever they are deals nearby.

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Information systems alumnus Shanison Lin quit his first job at financial portal ShareInvestor and started his own financial tech company InvestingNote in 2014, just five years graduation. Last May, the company raised $400,000 from investors and the National Research Foundation. He shares his investment insights.

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Mr Tay Wei Kiat, co-founder of local start-up Originally US, and Torin Nguyen, an alumnus of NUS Computing, started the business in 2014 with just $500 in capital. Now, two years later, the mobile application development business is "on track" to break seven digits in annual revenue. It has even expanded to include an office in Vietnam.

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Semantics3, a data application programme interface (API) platform co-founded by Computer Engineering alumnus Sivamani Varun and the first startup from Singapore to get into the Y Combinator accelerator programme, has secured US$1.55 million in bridge funding,

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Local start-up Carousell, a mobile e-market for second-hand items co-founded by Computer Engineering alumnus Lucas Ngoo, has added a Web platform to reach new users. Buyers and sellers with a computer will now be able to use the service and will find it easier to add a Web address to their Facebook and Twitter posts linking back to their sale items on Carousell.

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Local cleantech firm Horizon Energy Systems is trying for a new world record with a new fuel cell that can fly an unmanned aerial vehicle, often called a drone, for 300km without stopping or refuelling. Computational Biology student Yim Wai Tsyu was involved in operating the drone.

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NUS has spun off a new startup called 6Estates from the NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Centre (NExT), the research centre it jointly established with Tsinghua University of China. 6Estates is a big data analytics software company with the ability to transform huge volumes and varieties of structured and unstructured data into insights automatically.

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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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NUS Computing alumnus Jayden Ooi from Collappe was named the Best CEO at the 2014 Global Talentrepreneur innovation & Collaboration (GlobalTiC) Award held in Taiwan mid-August in recognition of his leadership performance and strategic vision.

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Visual effects artist and Computer Science alumnus Skeel Lee was part of the eight-member team at international visual effects company Moving Picture Company's branch in Montreal, Canada, which was responsible for the computer-generated portals seen in X-Men: Days Of Future Past.

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NUS Enterprise incubatee, Zopim Technologies Pte Ltd, a leading provider of live chat software, has been acquired by Zendesk, a cloud-based customer service software solution provider, for US$29.8 million (S$37.3 million), as cited in various media reports. Computer Engineering alumnus Wu Wenxiang was one of Zopim's founders.

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NUS Computing offers a wide range of courses covering both the design and development aspects of gaming. Students will get insights into all phases of game development. Students can specialise in 3D modelling and animation, game development, digital media production, computer vision and pattern recognition, graphics rendering techniques, digital special effects, networked and mobile gaming, general-purpose computation on Graphics Processing Unit, advanced computer animation, game design and projects on game design and development.

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Semantics3 is a price data company run by five fresh graduates from NUS, including Computer Engineering alumni. It indexes online retailers’ prices and provides data on historical prices that helps retailers determine their pricing strategies.

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Online marketplace Carousell is keen to streamline the online selling process. Users can create free listings and sell items in less than 30 seconds. With a specific focus on re-sale and re-use of textbooks alone, it is estimated to save 9.1 kilograms of carbon dioxide produced per textbook, equivalent to the amount produced by 659 cars.

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Two Singapore technology startups have won a new mentorship competition run by leading UK software company Red Gate and Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). Both companies will fly out to Red Gate's Cambridge headquarters later this summer, where they'll receive individually-tailored mentoring from the team that grew Red Gate from a startup to an international software firm.

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