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04/09/2026

🎓Shape the Future of AI at NUS Computing

Thinking about pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Computing? Discover our postgraduate programmes, hear directly from our faculty, and get your questions answered at our upcoming information sessions.

📅 Postgraduate Information Session (In-person)
26 September 2026

💻 Master’s Online Webinars
16 & 17 November 2026

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise, advance your career or pursue impactful research, discover where a postgraduate education at NUS Computing can take you.

Applications:
🎓 Master’s programmes: 1 October 2026 – 31 January 2027
🔬 PhD programmes: Applications are now open until 15 December 2026

🔗 Explore our programmes and register for an information session: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/graduate/

03/09/2026

When CS undergraduates Aishwarya Goyal, Hazel Low, Abhishek Paranjape, and Andrew Soon started building AHMA at a hackathon last year, they kept coming back to one observation: Singapore has plenty of support for caregivers, but most caregivers have no idea where to find it.

🗣️ AHMA is a voice-first app that a caregiver can talk to about a hard week. It responds with encouragement and points them to community organisations and social service agencies. It also drafts emails to those organisations and adds appointments and medication reminders to Google Calendar. Voice came first because many caregivers are older adults who would rather speak than type. English, Malay and Mandarin work now, with dialects next on the list. The text-to-speech model was trained on Aishwarya's voice so it sounds like someone from here.

The team has been testing the prototype with caregivers at Mindfull Community and reworking features around what they hear. Hazel told The Straits Times that co-creating with caregivers is a core value for the team.

They're aiming to launch a working version in the coming months.

Read the full story in The Straits Times: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/need-help-caring-for-grandma-undergrads-create-the-ahma-app-to-help-caregivers



📷 : AHMA

02/09/2026

From ultra-low-power chips to AI-powered accessibility tech, the work of our own Provost's Chair Professor Li-Shiuan Peh and Associate Professor Suranga Nanayakkara was recognised by Minister Desmond Lee, as NRF released its RIE2025 Report.

NUS Computing is proud to be the place where work like this happens.

This morning, NRF released the RIE2025 Report.

New discoveries and breakthroughs often take the spotlight when we talk about research and innovation, but even more important are the people who turn ideas into impact.

Peh Li-Shiuan returned to Singapore through the Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme after serving as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Now back at her alma mater NUS, she is developing ultra-low-power chips for wearables, including “AI-on-skin” systems for health monitoring and sports coaching.

NTU PhD student Muhammad Naeem Bin Muhammad Nazri has completed an A*STAR research attachment. He is now exploring how lithium — a critical material for batteries — can be extracted from seawater.

Suranga Nanayakkara joined NUS after stints at MIT and the University of Auckland. At NUS, he directs the Centre for Holistic Inquiry into Lifelong Learning (CHILL) and founded AiSee, a start-up under Singapore's Enabling Masterplan 2030. Its AI-powered device helps persons with visual impairment "see" the world around them through real-time audio guidance.

We will continue investing in our research talents under RIE2030, empowering our researchers to push boundaries, create impact and take Singapore forward as a knowledge-based economy.

01/09/2026

👏 Congratulations to Provost's Chair Professor Abhik Roychoudhury, named one of 80 inaugural members of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy, honouring lasting contributions to software engineering research, practice and education.

Prof Roychoudhury has led research on program repair since 2013, work that grew into AutoCodeRover and was later acquired by Sonar. He's also Editor-in-Chief of ACM TOSEM and a 2024 ACM Fellow.

Read more: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/bytes/prof-abhik-roychoudhury-inducted-into-inaugural-class-of-the-acm-sigsoft-software-engineering-academy/

31/08/2026

Three papers co-authored by Professor Xiaokui Xiao have won top honours at leading international conferences this year, spanning AI efficiency, privacy auditing, and graph algorithms.

🔹ACM SIGKDD 2026: Best Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Yiqian Huang, together with Prof Xiao and co-authors, won for SCOPE, a method for selecting cost-efficient LLM combinations in multi-step AI systems, cutting costs by up to six times without sacrificing quality.

🔹IEEE S&P 2026: Distinguished Paper Award
Rishav Chourasia and Ergute Bao, both former PhD students of Prof Xiao's, led a team with Prof Xiao auditing Apple's differential privacy framework, used on more than 2.35 billion devices. They found several mechanisms fell short of their privacy guarantees, including secure-aggregation protocols with local privacy protection switched off. The team disclosed the vulnerabilities to Apple, which has since deprecated the affected mechanisms.

🔹ACM PODS 2026: Best Newcomer Award
Xinpeng Jiang, Haoyu Liu, and Siqiang Luo of NTU, together with Prof Xiao, won for closing a long-standing gap in the theory behind personalised PageRank.

Congratulations to everyone on this recognition!

29/08/2026

And that’s a wrap on the NUS Computing Career Fair August 2026! 💼✨

For two days, COM3’s Multi-Purpose Hall was buzzing with conversations as our students met employers from across tech, finance, cybersecurity and government.

One of the best parts of the Career Fair is seeing our students connect with employers face to face. From asking about internships and graduate roles to learning more about different career paths, there were plenty of conversations happening throughout the two days.

A big thank you to all our participating employers for taking the time to be here, and to every student who came by, asked questions, introduced themselves and took the opportunity to explore what’s next. ❤️

We hope many of the conversations and connections made over the past two days lead to exciting opportunities ahead.

Missed this one? Stay tuned for the next NUS Computing Career Fair! 🚀

28/08/2026

Big congratulations to Associate Professor Ilya Sergey and his team at NUS School of Computing, whose paper on Velvet won the CAV 2026 Distinguished Paper Award, one of just eight out of 81 accepted papers at this year's conference.

Velvet helps developers prove their code does exactly what it's supposed to do, built on the Lean proof assistant used by mathematicians and AI researchers alike.

Well done to lead author Vladimir Gladshtein and the whole research team.

Read the full story: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/bytes/associate-professor-ilya-sergey-and-team-win-distinguished-paper-award-at-cav-2026/

27/08/2026

NUS Presidential Young Professor Yi-Jun Chang and his students picked up two paper awards this year: the Outstanding Paper Award at SPAA 2026 and the Best Student Paper Award at PODC 2026.

Prof Chang and Guan Yang Ze, who started the project as an undergraduate on his FYP, won the Outstanding Paper Award at SPAA 2026, one of just three papers recognised at the conference, for work on keeping wireless sensor networks running longer on a single charge.

At PODC 2026, PhD student Zhou Haoran under Prof Chang, working with Jérémie Chalopin (Aix-Marseille University) and Giuseppe A. Di Luna (Sapienza Università di Roma), won the Best Student Paper Award for research into how much a network can still compute when its messages carry no information at all.

"I am happy to see the contributions of Yang Ze and Haoran recognised by the research community through these awards," said Prof Chang.

Read more: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/bytes/nus-computing-researchers-win-outstanding-paper-award-at-spaa-2026-and-best-student-paper-award-at-podc-2026/

25/08/2026

🏆 A cybersecurity paper written 15 years ago is still shaping how researchers defend against attacks today.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Liang Zhengkai, who has received the Test-of-Time Award at the 21st ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2026), for his 2011 paper, "Jump-oriented programming: a new class of code-reuse attack".

The paper introduced a new way attackers could hijack software without injecting a single line of malicious code, and it’s still cited by security researchers today.

Read more: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/bytes/associate-professor-liang-zhenkai-receives-test-of-time-award-at-acm-asiaccs-2026/

24/08/2026

Meet Lee Hyungwoon 👋

First Class Honours graduate from NUS Computing, Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize winner, startup co-founder, and soon-to-be graduate student at MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group, one of the most selective research groups in human-computer interaction.

His FYP explored detecting cognitive stress through smartwatch signals and has been accepted at UbiComp/ISWC 2026. He's headed next to MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group, where he'll continue exploring the intersection of psychology, AI, and human-computer interaction that shaped his time at NUS.

Read his story here: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/news/modeling-the-mind-lee-hyungwoons-journey-through-psychology-ai-and-human-computer-interaction/