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NUS has retained its top position in Singapore and ranked 3rd in Asia in the QS Asian University Rankings 2026.

10 students from the NUS School of Computing (SoC) are representing Singapore at the SEA Games 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. Balancing training, competitions, and academic rigour is no small feat – yet each of them has carved out space to grow in both arenas.

The 27th School of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS) once again transformed COM3 into a vibrant hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and peer learning. This latest edition brought together selected student projects – the culmination of months of rigorous work – to be presented, assessed, and celebrated by the community.

NUS Computing congratulates Associate Professor Wang Ye on being named an Outstanding Area Chair at ACM Multimedia 2025, one of the field’s leading international conferences. 

NUS Computing students made a strong showing at this year’s Codechella Tour: Singapore – a nationwide innovation festival hosted by ChatAndBuild that brought together more than 200 students from 10 universities to build AI-driven solutions for real-world needs.

Held at the Shaw Foundation Alumni House, the full-day event brought together experts working at different layers of the computing stack – from devices and memory technologies to accelerators, processors, and large-scale infrastructure – to address one of computing’s most urgent challenges: the rising energy footprint of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

As we celebrate 50 years of computing education at NUS, the School of Computing welcomed Dr Robert Tarjan, Turing Award laureate and one of the most influential theorists in computer science, for a special Distinguished Speaker Seminar titled “Is Dijkstra’s Algorithm Optimal?” 

Yuexi developed a new language for tennis strategy analysis, mapping tennis games to chess games based on their structural similarities. Her paper, “TANS, A Chess-Inspired Notation System for System Analysis of Tennis Games”, received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2nd International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition 2025 (ISACE’25) held in Shanghai. 

As we celebrate 50 years of computing education at NUS, the School of Computing welcomed Dr Robert Tarjan, Turing Award laureate and one of the most influential theorists in computer science, for a special Distinguished Speaker Seminar titled “Is Dijkstra’s Algorithm Optimal?” 

NUS Computing has taken an important step towards strengthening research and graduate education pathways with Sri Lanka. In January 2025, Assoc Prof Suranga Nanayakkara initiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National University of Singapore and the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka — an effort that was formalised by both parties within a remarkable five months.

NUS Computing is pleased to host Prof Robert Tarjan, one of the world’s most influential computer scientists and a foundational figure in algorithms research, as part of our CS50 anniversary.

NUS School of Computing (SoC) has achieved a historic milestone, clinching its first-ever victory at the ICPC Regionals in Taiwan – one of the most competitive arenas in the Asia-Pacific International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

Five members of the NUS Computing’s FinTech Society made an impressive showing at ETHRome 25, bringing home four prizes from one of Europe’s leading blockchain hackathons.

We are proud to share that two faculty members from the NUS School of Computing — Distinguished Professor Yan Shuicheng and Professor Zhang Yang — have been named among the world’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025  by data analytics firm Clarivate. 

Two students from the NUS School of Computing have put Singapore on the global entrepreneurship map. Tew Jing An, a Year 1 Computer Science student, and Chong Kai Jie, a Year 2 Computer Engineering student, are co-founders of Stick ‘Em — an education technology startup that clinched the prestigious 2025 Hult Prize and its US$1 million seed funding at the Global Finals in London.

When the first notes filled the seminar room at Innovation 4.0, the atmosphere shifted — from quiet anticipation to shared curiosity. The Sound and Music Computing for Human Health & Potential Seminar & Concert 2025 (SMC4HHP) brought together students, staff, and friends of NUS School of Computing for an afternoon that celebrated the harmony between technology and creativity, and the power of human connection through sound. 

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.

We are proud to share that Lin Xinyu and Zhao Wangbo, PhD students from NUS Computing, have been awarded the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship.

Two NUS School of Computing (SoC) students have emerged victorious at the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) held during SPLASH 2025. The SRC provides undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to present their research to a panel of expert judges and conference attendees, gaining feedback, recognition, and exposure to the global computing research community.

Assistant Professor Yi-Chieh Lee from NUS School of Computing has been awarded the Google Academic Research Award (GARA) in Trust, Safety, Security & Privacy Research.