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Yuexi developed a new language for tennis strategy analysis, mapping tennis games to chess games based on their structural similarities. Her paper, “TANS, A Chess-Inspired Notation System for System Analysis of Tennis Games”, received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2nd International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition 2025 (ISACE’25) held in Shanghai. 

As we celebrate 50 years of computing education at NUS, the School of Computing welcomed Dr Robert Tarjan, Turing Award laureate and one of the most influential theorists in computer science, for a special Distinguished Speaker Seminar titled “Is Dijkstra’s Algorithm Optimal?” 

NUS Computing has taken an important step towards strengthening research and graduate education pathways with Sri Lanka. In January 2025, Assoc Prof Suranga Nanayakkara initiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National University of Singapore and the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka — an effort that was formalised by both parties within a remarkable five months.

NUS Computing is pleased to host Prof Robert Tarjan, one of the world’s most influential computer scientists and a foundational figure in algorithms research, as part of our CS50 anniversary.

NUS School of Computing (SoC) has achieved a historic milestone, clinching its first-ever victory at the ICPC Regionals in Taiwan – one of the most competitive arenas in the Asia-Pacific International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

Five members of the NUS Computing’s FinTech Society made an impressive showing at ETHRome 25, bringing home four prizes from one of Europe’s leading blockchain hackathons.