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NUS Presidential Young Professor Yi-Jun Chang and his collaborators have won two awards at leading conferences in distributed computing this year: the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Symposium in Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), given to the top three papers at the conference, and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), which recognises the best paper among those with substantial contributions from student authors.

Associate Professor Liang Zhenkai from the Department of Computer Science has received the Test-of-Time Award at the 21st ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2026), recognising his 2011 paper, “Jump-oriented programming: a new class of code-reuse attack”.

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.

Qu Wenjie, a PhD candidate in Computer Science, has been selected as a 2026 ML and Systems Rising Star by MLCommons, an honour recognising early-career researchers shaping the future of machine learning and systems research. 

NUS School of Computing (SoC) co-organised this year's edition of SINFRA, the annual Singapore-France workshop on Computer Science and AI, bringing together more than 80 researchers from across the two countries' AI, robotics, and human-computer interaction communities.

11 new Assistant Professors join the Department of Computer Science, and six join the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, marking one of NUS School of Computing's largest faculty intakes in recent years.