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"Success looks instant from the outside, but it’s built slowly, relentlessly, over years," Arun Shenoy says. "An overnight success is usually a decade in the making." He says this to NUS Computing students who have something creative running alongside their degree. His own version of that started here. He arrived in January 2003 on an NUS Research Scholarship, which covered his fees and gave him a living allowance, and finished a Master of Science by research in 2004 with a thesis on tracking key, chord and rhythm in recorded music.

Six alumni have been named recipients of the Outstanding Young Computing Alumni Award 2025. The award recognises NUS Computing graduates whose achievements and contributions bring honour to the University and the School.

Researchers from NUS Computing, Stanford University and other institutions have co-authored a whitepaper setting out six conditions for judging whether AI genuinely improves work. The paper, “When Does AI Augment Work? A Workflow-Level Framework for Human-Agent Collaboration”, was posted to arXiv two days after the Ministry of Manpower told Parliament that its surveys show most firms adopting AI are redesigning jobs or creating new roles. 

Eu En Wong was tutoring General Paper to a hundred students at one point. He wanted to give each of them proper feedback — the kind that is specific enough to act on, personal enough to land. At that scale, there simply was not enough of him to go around. That experience became the founding logic of Ren.

A radio unit built entirely in software has earned Professor Chan Mun Choon and his team the Best Paper Award in Track 4 of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2026.

Computing for Voluntary Welfare Organisations (CVWO), a student volunteer initiative of the NUS School of Computing, commemorated its 20th anniversary today, having trained more than 300 students across 20 cohorts to develop and maintain software for social service and non-profit organisations. The celebration was graced by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Development and Information, as the Guest-of-Honour.