19 August 2019 – Computer Science PhD student Ruan Pingcheng received the Best Paper Award at the 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) held in Los Angeles, California, from 26 to 30 August this year.
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13 August 2019 – Team Singapore won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal at the recent International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2019 that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 4 to 11 August.
13 August 2019 – Final year NUS Computing students Caryn Heng and Francis Lee won the Best VR Award at the XR.Hack competition held from 13 to 14 July 2019. The Best VR Award is the grand prize given out at the Extended Reality (XR) developer event organised by the AsiaVR Association and the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA).
9 July 2019 – Final year Computer Science students Yang Suwei and Song Zhiwen, with final year Computer Engineering student Paul Tan, received the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (OURP) for Academic Year 2018/2019.
8 July 2019 – NUS Computing students and their teams swept up five of six prizes given out at the BrainHack 2019 Award Ceremony held on 14 June 2019. Awards were given out for two competitions: the seventh edition of the Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp (CDDC) and the first Today I Learned (TIL) – AI Camp.
27 June 2019 – Computer Science PhD student Abdelhak Bentaleb won the first prize in DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award 2019 and the Best PhD Dissertation Award on 20 June 2019. The awards were given out at the ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference held in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from 18 to 21 June.
18 June 2019 – Third year Business Analytics student Li Xuan Guang and his team emerged as overall winners of the AngelHack Challenge held at the AngelHack and Shanghai Makers Hackathon 2019 from 15 to 16 June in Shanghai, China.
14 June 2019 – Associate Professor Xiao Xiaokui and PhD students Bao Ergute and Zhao Xuejun won third place in the final round of the 2018 Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge. The challenge lasted from 31 October 2018 to 23 April 2019 and the results were announced on 20 May 2019.
12 June 2019 – First year Business Analytics students Rance Lim and Zhou Boxin, with NUS Business School student Yan Guanyu, won third place in the Huawei ICT Competition 2018-2019. The competition’s Global Final was held from 25 to 26 May in Shenzhen, China.
14 May 2019 – Third year Information Systems student Victor Yeo and Computer Engineering student Celine Lim, with NUS Engineering student Audrey Wong, clinched the Champions prize at the Minerva Hackathon held in San Francisco from 6 to 7 April 2019.
13 May 2019 – Associate Professor Chan Mun Choon and NUS Computing PhD students Pravein Govindan Kannan and Raj Joshi won the Best Paper award at the ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR). The conference was held from 3 to 4 April in San Jose, California.
9 May 2019 – Second year Computer Science undergraduate Lim Heng Guang won the first prize at the International Women’s Day 52-Hour Hackathon held from 29 to 31 March this year in Shenzhen, China.
8 May 2019 – Second year Business Analytics undergraduates Jason Yip, Jasmine Seah, and Yang Yuesong, together with NUS Science student Zheng Shanshan, won the Grand Champions title at the Hack4Climate competition held on 16 March at Yale-NUS College.
6 May 2019 – First year NUS Master of Science in Business Analytics students Shivam Bansal, Aditya Gupta, Harshil Parashar, and Wu Zheyu, won first place at the NUS Johnson & Johnson Analytics Innovation Challenge. The competition’s final presentation and award ceremony was held in NUS Computing on 30 March 2019.
16 April 2019 – Second year Computer Science student David Kum and his NUS teammates won first place in HackMentalHealth UCSF 2019. The team won the 24-hour Bay Area mental health hackathon held from 23 to 24 March at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA.
Business Analytics student Neo Ann Qi, with her teammates, won first place in the Green category at the three day long Hack for Sweden 2019. The team will be presenting their idea for a groundwater level prediction system an annual forum attended by Swedish political party leaders in the coastal city of Visby on July 5.
13 April 2019 – Third year Business Analytics student Neo Ann Qi won first place for the Green Award at the three day Hack for Sweden 2019, held from 4 to 6 April in Stockholm, Sweden. As part of their win, Ann Qi and her team will present the team's award winning idea, a groundwater level prediction system, to a forum attended by Swedish political leaders in Visby, Sweden, on 5 July 2019.
11 April 2019 – Third year Business Analytics student Ng Kai Wen, with his NUS team members, won the Best Innovative Community Tech prize at the HackRU Spring 2019 hackathon, held from 9 to 10 March 2019 at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
10 April 2019 – Eight NUS Computing students and their teams won three of the Top 8 Prizes for their outstanding hacks at Hack&Roll 2019. The hackathon was held from 19 to 20 January 2019 at Cinnamon and Tembusu Dining Hall in UTown, NUS.
There has been a steady rise in enrolment in NUS Computing as students and parents work to hone their technical skills in coding and computing. Professor Mohan Kankanhalli, Dean of NUS Computing, shares how demand for computing courses have increased, not just among Computing undergraduates, but by non-Computing undergraduates as well.
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