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Final year NUS Computing students emerge as champions at Global VR Championship Hackathon 2019

21 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student

21 November 2019 – Final year Computer Science student Caryn Heng and Computer Engineering student Francis Lee won the top prize at the Global Virtual Reality (VR) Championship Hackathon 2019 held in Shanghai, China, from 4 to 7 November.

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Business Analytics student wins first place at The GoldenHack competition

20 November 2019 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

20 November 2019 – Third year Business Analytics student Cai Shuhang won the first place prize in The GoldenHack competition held from 5 to 6 October this year. The GoldenHack is a business hackathon for students in Waterloo, Canada, to solve challenging problems over 24 hours.

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Two Computer Science PhD students receive prestigious Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship

19 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student , Security , Database

19 November 2019 – Computer Science PhD students Tran Duc Muoi and Wang Taining were conferred the 2019 Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship on 8 November. Muoi and Taining received their award at MSRA’s Academic Day 2019 event held at the MSRA headquarters in Beijing, China.

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NUS Computing students excel at SIA AppChallenge 2019

18 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

18 November 2019 – NUS Computing students clinched the top three student category prizes at the recent Singapore Airlines (SIA) AppChallenge 2019 competition held from June to October this year. The final round of presentations and award ceremony was held at the School of the Arts on 18 October.

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Second-year Business Analytics students win 2019 EPIC Data Challenge

15 November 2019 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student , Data Science & Business Analytics

15 November 2019 – Second-year Business Analytics students Aw Xin Min and Sean Lee won first place and a cash prize of S$2,000 at the Edelman Predictive Intelligence Centre (EPIC) Data Challenge, held from 15 October to 6 November 2019.

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NUS Computing students excel at regional competitive programming contests

13 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student

12 November 2019 – Two teams of NUS Computing students emerged as winners at the recent International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) regional competitions held in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur from October to November this year.

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NUS Computing students win first prize at MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack San Francisco 2019

11 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

11 November 2019 – NUS Computing students Chen Yizhao (Information Systems, Year 3) and Nicholas Seah (Information Security, Year 3) won the first prize at the MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack San Francisco 2019 competition held from 11 to 13 October this year. The team won the top prize in the mental health category – one of three categories in the competition.

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Computer Science PhD student receives ACM MM 2019 Best Student Paper Award

06 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student , Security , Media

6 November 2019 – Computer Science PhD student Shen Zhiqi received the Best Student Paper award at the ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2019 conference held from 21 to 25 October this year in Nice, France.

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NUS Computing students named champions at Crypto.com Case Competition

04 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

4 November 2019 – NUS Computing students Shaun Wong (Information Systems, Year 2) and Chia De Xun (Computer Science, Year 2), with NUS Business School student Lai Yuen, won the champions title at the recent Crypto.com Case Competition. The competition’s finals were held on 25 October this year.

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NUS Computing team receives Best Paper Award at ICNP 2019

01 November 2019 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , Research , Systems & Networking

1 November 2019 – A team, consisting of Computer Science PhD student Raj Joshi, Associate Professor Chan Mun Choon and Associate Professor Ben Leong, won the Best Paper Award at the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2019.

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NUS Computing researchers receive prestigious research award from Facebook

24 October 2019 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , Research , Systems & Networking

24 October 2019 – Associate Professor Chan Mun Choon and Computer Science PhD students Nishant Budhdev, Pravein Govindan Kannan and Raj Joshi won the highly coveted Facebook Research award on 25 September this year.

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NUS Computing students win top two prizes at Singapore Cyber Conquest

09 October 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student

9 October 2019 – First-year Computer Science student Ho Jie Feng and his teammate Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) student V S Ragul Balaji won first place at the 10th Singapore Cyber Conquest competition held on 1 October this year. The pair won an all-expense paid trip to cybersecurity conference Black Hat USA in August 2020.

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NUS Computing students excel at Circles.Hack 2019

04 October 2019 Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

4 October 2019 – Two NUS Computing teams, a pair of Business Analytics students and a group of five second-year students, won a total of four awards among themselves at the Circles.Hack 2019 competition on 21 September this year.

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Business Analytics student wins top prize at Europe’s largest hackathon for women

02 October 2019 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

2 October 2019 – Final-year Business Analytics student Neo Ann Qi and her teammates were named winners of the McKinsey Digital Challenge – one of 12 challenges presented – at the Stockholm Tech Festival Hackathon 2019 held from 7 to 8 September in Stockholm, Sweden.

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10th Singapore Cyber Conquest Champions Announced

01 October 2019 CSMEDIA Department of Computer Science , Student , News Media

First-year Computer Science student Ho Jie Feng and his teammate placed first at the 10th Singapore Cyber Conquest competition organised by the Cyber Security Agency Singapore. NUS Computing students Ngo Wei Lin and Daniel Wee came in second in the competition as well. A total of 37 teams from both Singapore and ASEAN Member States, competed in a simulated real-world cyber range designed to test cybersecurity skills and knowledge.

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NUS Computing students win the champions title at Build On, Singapore 2019 hackathon

01 October 2019 Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

1 October 2019 – A team of final-year NUS Computing students emerged as champions in the recent Build On, Singapore 2019 hackathon on 24 September. Business Analytics students Victoria Teo and Vincent Leow, Information Systems students Teo Kai Cheng and Rebecca Tan, and Computer Engineering student Xie Yu Heng, won the champions prize in the university category of the competition.

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NUS Computing students dominate at university-level Bug Bounty challenge

30 September 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student

30 September 2019 – Six NUS Computing undergraduate and Masters students were named award winners at the recent NUS Bug Bounty Challenge held from 14 to 26 August this year. The students made up two-thirds of the total number of winners – nine NUS students were awarded cash prizes for their discoveries.

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Business Analytics student wins big at Mandopop songwriting contest with powerful ballad

29 September 2019 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student , News Media

Business Analytics student James Liu Song Yu won the Best Song Award for his Mandarin power ballad on 29 September. He won the top award at SG:SW2019 I Write The Songs, a nation-wide Mandopop songwriting festival. Out of the 303 compositions received during the open call submission, 12 were performed at Saturday's concert.

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Swiss university students to enrol in NUS Computing Master’s programme under new partnership

26 September 2019 Department of Computer Science , Student

26 September 2019 – NUS Computing and the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) announced a joint partnership on 19 September to enrol top students from Switzerland’s SIT into the NUS Computing’s Master of Computing programme. Under the partnership, up to 15 students from SIT will be selected to enrol into a 12-month NUS Master of Computing programme.

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Students develop solutions for real-life issues in hackathon finals

25 September 2019 CSMEDIA Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student , News Media

NUS Computing students Xavier Xie, Rebecca Tan, Victoria Teo, Vincent Leow and Teo Kai Cheng won first place in the university category of Build On, Singapore 2019 Hackathon. The hackathon, jointly organised by Amazon Web Services, NUS and the Government Technology Agency, drew 51 entries from students across various institutions in Singapore.

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