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NUS School of Computing Master’s Students Shine at AI Innovation Challenge 2026 The NUS–Synapxe–IMDA AI Innovation Challenge 2026 brought together 880 participants from 18 institutions to tackle a question at the heart of modern healthcare: how can artificial intelligence improve early detection, diagnosis, and continuous care for chronic diseases?

NUS Computing Launches Inaugural Ascent Prize to Recognise the World's Rising Computing Scholars The global award identifies exceptional early-career researchers and brings them to Singapore for a programme of research exchange, mentorship and community building.

Team Kent Ridge, the eight NUS Computing students secured first place overall at SBCC’26, outperforming 13 international teams, many of which had prior competition experience and established HPC backgrounds.

What began with a $2,000 seed fund has become one of NUS School of Computing’s largest flagship events.The 28th edition of STePS brought close to 95 student projects across 11 tracks into COM3, drawing over 1,000  guests – from faculty and industry leaders to government agencies, sponsors, and investors.

There’s a particular kind of restlessness that drives someone to build things when no one is asking them to. For Andre Liu, a Year 1 Computer Science student with a minor in Mathematics at NUS School of Computing (SoC), that itch showed up early – in middle school, in hackathon halls, in the quiet corners of National Service (NS).

Two papers from the Augmented Human Lab have earned Honourable Mention Awards at ACM CHI 2026, the world’s leading conference in human-computer interaction. The award recognises the top 5% of accepted papers for their originality, rigour, and potential impact.