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In February 2024, an employee at engineering firm Arup joined a video call with people who looked, sounded and moved exactly like the company’s CFO and several colleagues. All of them were deepfakes. Over the course of the call, the employee authorised 15 wire transfers totalling US$25.6 million to accounts controlled by scammers, a case later confirmed by Hong Kong Police. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded more than US$893 million in adjusted losses from AI-related fraud complaints in 2025, according to a report the agency published in April 2026.

Associate Professor Liang Zhenkai from the Department of Computer Science has received the Test-of-Time Award at the 21st ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2026), recognising his 2011 paper, “Jump-oriented programming: a new class of code-reuse attack”.

A best paper-winning model from NUS Computing helps AI learn from both written notation and recorded audio within a single framework, expanding how machines can understand music

Assistant Professor Bian Yatao and NUS Presidential Young Professor Zhang Jiaheng have been awarded the National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship (Class of 2026), one of Singapore’s most competitive programmes for early-career researchers.

Sean Jean (Year 4, Computer Science) has won the Singapore National Finals of the International Quant Championship (IQC), organised by WorldQuant. He will represent Singapore at the Global Finals on 6-7 October, competing against champions from 12 other countries. 

Three faculty members from NUS Computing have been awarded the prestigious National Research Foundation Investigatorship (NRF-I) under its 11th call, recognising their leadership and potential to drive high-impact research in artificial intelligence.

A paper co-authored by Jialin Li, Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor and alumnus Dehui Wei from the Department of Computer Science won the Outstanding Paper Award at NSDI (USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation) '26, one of the top venues in computer networking and systems research.

Assistant Professor Flavien Solt and collaborators at Microsoft Research has received a Distinguished Paper award at the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the field's most selective venues.

A 2022 paper co-authored by two NUS Computing faculty members has received the Youth Achievement Award at the 10th Ministry of Education Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements (Humanities and Social Sciences), one of China's most significant national recognitions for research in the humanities and social sciences. 

A team from NUS School of Computing took the Best Paper and Presentation Award at PPMisDet, a misinformation detection workshop held at CVPR 2026 in Denver in June.

Associate Professor Bryan Low’s project on “Self-Configurable Agentic Learning via Co-Optimization” has been selected for the AWS Agentic AI Amazon Research Awards (ARA). His research explores how to unify the strengths of Context Engineering and Reinforcement Learning into a single coherent approach.

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.

NUS Presidential Young Professor Yang You from NUS Computing's Department of Computer Science has been selected for the Google 2026 Awards for Machine Learning Research and Education with TPUs.

Assistant Professor Jiang Wenqi from the Department of Computer Science at NUS Computing has received the 2026 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award – the most prestigious recognition for early-career researchers in data management. 

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.

A new model that teaches AI to understand and create music – across audio waveforms, symbolic notation, and text – has won Best Paper Award at the 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2026), held in Prague, Czech Republic from 29 to 31 January 2026.

Two faculty members from NUS Computing have been selected as StarTrack scholars by Microsoft Research Asia, Assistant Professor Yatao Bian and Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor Jialin Li.

NUS School of Computing is pleased to share that NUS Presidential Young Professor Zhang Jiaheng, has been awarded the Robert Brown Promising Researcher Award under the Ministry of Education Singapore (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 Grant. 

NUS proudly ranks 1st in Singapore, 3rd in Asia and 17th globally in the 2026 Times Higher Education World University Rankings! At NUS Computing, we continue to push boundaries in research, innovation, and education, shaping the future of technology and society.