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In 2019, Mathan Chidambaranathan had a problem. As president of the Engineering Interest Group (EIG) at the NUS High School of Math and Science, he had $500, two months, and a room full of Primary 5 students expecting something more exciting than a noise maker.

We're proud to share that four Singapore students, trained through our National Cybersecurity Olympiad (NCO) pathway, delivered an outstanding performance at the International Cybersecurity Olympiad (ICO) 2026, held in Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia

Jason Matthew Suhari was a sentence into his final presentation when his nose started bleeding. By the time the judges called his name as the winner of the YC AI Growth Hackathon, the NUS Data Science and Computer Science student wasn't thinking about the win. He was looking for tissues.

A research paper by Assistant Professor Lin Shao and collaborators has been selected as a finalist for the ICRA 2026 Best Paper Award, one of the highest honours at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Two NUS Computing alumni co-founded Vibefam, a platform now powering 700+ fitness locations worldwide. In June 2026, the company closed a US$1 million seed round to accelerate its next chapter.

Last year, NUS Computing students Chloe Chua (Year 3, Computer Science), Kang Jie Cheong (Year 3, Business Analytics), Justin Goh (Year 3, Business Analytics), and Wei Jie Chew (Year 3, Computer Science) left DSTA BrainHack CODE_EXP with first runner-up. They registered again, picked a harder problem, and built something bigger.