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When Assistant Professor Yi-Chieh Lee looked at what a computer science degree actually trains students to do, he found that generative AI could already perform many of the programming tasks students spend years learning. His work is one of three efforts at the NUS School of Computing to work out what AI leaves for teaching to do. Elsewhere in the school, researchers are using AI simulations to let students rehearse difficult conversations before they meet them for real, and building short-form courses for adults studying around a full-time job.

When Davidson Chua (Class of 2026, BSc in Business Analytics) first joined the NUS Venture Initiation Programme (VIP@SoC), he was working on his first serious attempt at building a startup. The idea focused on helping car sellers compare offers more transparently, and while the venture eventually took a different path, the experience became a crucial starting point in his entrepreneurial journey.

Eu En Wong was tutoring General Paper to a hundred students at one point. He wanted to give each of them proper feedback — the kind that is specific enough to act on, personal enough to land. At that scale, there simply was not enough of him to go around. That experience became the founding logic of Ren.