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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.

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”.

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.

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”.

Assistant Professor Ambuj Varshney and his WEISER research group are building a way around this. His project, “TinyLLM: A Framework for Training and Deploying Language Models at the Edge Computers”, has been selected for the 2026 Google Awards for Machine Learning Research and Education with TPUs.

NUS Presidential Young Professor Umang Mathur has been awarded the Temasek-Presidential Young Professorship (T-PYP) grant for his research on safer and more secure hardware design.