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Building AI That Configures Itself: A/Prof Bryan Low Receives AWS Agentic AI Amazon Research Awards

22 June 2026

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Associate Professor Bryan Low’s project on “Self-Configurable Agentic Learning via Co-Optimization” has been selected for the AWS Agentic AI Amazon Research Awards (ARA). His research explores how to unify the strengths of Context Engineering and Reinforcement Learning into a single coherent approach.

Building OpenSentinel: Two NUS Students Win National AI Student Challenge 2026

18 June 2026

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When NUS students Teoh Tze Tzun (Year 4, Computer Science & Mathematics, DDP) and Jeffinson Darmawan (Year 4, Computer Engineering) entered the National AI Student Challenge 2026, they were tasked with exploring how AI could support security operations. Their solution, OpenSentinel, went on to win first place in the Certis Track.

From Black Boxes to Hiking Trails: Getting to Know NUS Presidential Young Professor Anji Liu – What AI actually does (and doesn’t do)

17 June 2026

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If you’ve ever used ChatGPT and felt that something sounds right, but you’re not entirely sure if it actually is, you’re already thinking about the kind of problems Prof Anji works on. He studies machine learning, focusing on generative AI. But his work is not about making these systems more impressive. It’s about making them more reliable, getting them to follow logic and constraints, not just patterns. Because those two things are still far apart.

The Best Reason to Get An Education Is to Give It Away: What Teach SG Taught Two NUS Computing Students

16 June 2026

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A student at NUS School of Computing and the NUS FinTech Lab, Sumit was one of just 14 university builders selected worldwide for the XRPL Student Builder Residency 2026 at Ripple’s London office. Sumit developed Verix, a blockchain-based task settlement system designed for AI agents, which he describes as “the trust layer for the agentic economy”.

NUS DISA Ranked 4th Worldwide in Information Systems Research

11 June 2026

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The Department of Information Systems and Analytics (DISA) at NUS Computing has been ranked 4th worldwide for research publications in Information Systems Research (ISR) and MIS Quarterly (MISQ) – the two most prestigious A+ journals in the field.