As they say, team work makes the dream work! 😉 Kudos to our final-year students for taking home wins at two separate hackathons organised by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Shopee! Check out their solutions below!

➡️ nus.edu/3sNZeJk

Interested in pursuing a career in Information Systems? Keen to equip yourself with the skills to drive digital transformation and innovation for your organisation? ⚙️ 💻 📊

Attend our upcoming programme briefing to learn more about our Master of Computing (Information Systems) programme:

🗓️ Sat, 28 Aug
⏰ 2pm
➡️ Sign up for the info session here: bit.ly/mcomp-is
🔗 Visit bit.ly/pgmis for more details

Have questions? 📧 Email us at mcomp@comp.nus.edu.sg

Congrats to NUS Computing Computer Science (CS) PhD graduate Dr Dai Zhongxiang, CS PhD students Abdul Fatir Ansari and Samson Tan, as well as NUS Graduate School Integrative Sciences and Engineering PhD student Peter Karkus, who were recently awarded the Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award! 🎉 🏆

The award is given to senior PhD students who have made significant research achievements during their PhD study. 💪

Read more about their research below!

➡️ nus.edu/3gxO3jh

From role-playing games to apps that help students connect with one another, we saw creativity on full display at Orbital Splashdown 2021! 📲 🚀

Orbital Splashdown is the closing event of NUS Orbital, a self-directed programming course for Year 2 NUS Computing students, where they embark on their own projects & pick up software development skills during the summer.

Check out the winners of Orbital Splashdown 2021 and their projects below! 🏆

➡️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTO-rpigGmk/
🔗 Visit https://nusskylab-dev.comp.nus.edu.sg/public_views/public_projects to view the full list of student projects

As the world becomes increasingly digital, it's vital for businesses to remain relevant and competitive by integrating digital technology with various business aspects, to change how companies deliver products and value to customers. 🌐 💻

Join an upcoming info session to learn more about the Digital Transformation Programme, which offers a series of professional certificates for employees who are keen to drive innovation and digital transformation in their companies.

🗓️ Mon, 13 Sept
⏰ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
➡️ Register at https://ace.nus.edu.sg/event/digital-transformation-programme/
📧 Have questions? Email soc-ace@nus.edu.sg for more information.

[𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲] You’ve heard of Game of Thrones…but have you heard of GAME OF TONES? 🎶 🎹 ⚔️

Learning by playing - that’s what our faculty members at NUS Computing wanted to achieve with this fun, music contest for students!

Game of Tones is run on the Source Academy, an immersive, online virtual environment where Computing freshmen learn programming skills as part of the CS1101S Programming Methodology module.

Game of Tones challenges students to be creative and to flex their programming muscles by using programming to generate sounds or music, elegantly and concisely. This could be replicating a favourite song with programming, or composing an entirely new song. At the end of the contest, students get to vote for the best programmed songs, and generally just have fun at an online ‘music party’! 🥳

👇 Hit the link below to learn more about Game of Tones, and turn the volume up to listen to the work of past winners from Sem 1, AY 20/21! 🎧

➡️ www.instagram.com/p/CTV27IIrA6d/

The World Bank estimates that worldwide, roughly 1.7 billion adults do not have a bank account. Thanks to fintech, a new world has opened up for the previously unbanked, and empowered underserved customers with apps like Yu'e Bao. 📲📊📈

NUS Computing Associate Professor Heng Cheng Suang and Research Fellow Tan Tianhui studied how Yu’e Bao - a money market fund built into the popular Alipay payments app - radically reformed China's financial industry, by targeting people who are less IT savvy and offering novel incentives to encourage them to adopt their services.

➡️ nus.edu/3zHjwa5

What was NUS Computing senior lecturer Dr Colin Tan like as a student? An 'out-standing' one, he says: Interrupting teachers, talking loudly to classmates, and spending much of his time standing outside the classroom. 🤭

Read more to find out how Dr Colin became a lecturer at NUS, thanks to his insatiable curiosity for science and computing, and fierce teachers.

➡️ bit.ly/3BEnL70

Congrats to NUS Computing Assistant Professor Warut Suksompong and collaborators for winning the Distinguished Paper Award at the recent International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence! 🎉

Their paper explores ways to divide land fairly amidst real-world constraints. Find out more below!

➡️ nus.edu/3l4HPZL

Don't forget to sign up for the info session on the Digital Transformation Programme, taking place next week! This well-rounded programme offers a series of professional certificates for employees who are keen to drive innovation and digital transformation in their companies.

🗓️ Mon, 13 Sept
⏰ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
➡️ Register at https://ace.nus.edu.sg/event/digital-transformation-programme/
📧 Have questions? Email soc-ace@nus.edu.sg for more information

Did you know that we offer many opportunities for our students to turn innovative ideas into real businesses?💡💼

Other than our inhouse start-up incubator, The Furnace, we also have the SoC Innovation Prize – which offers up to $2,000 in cash to students whose projects display high potential socio-economic impact.

Check out the projects — which involve a phishing site detector and a data visualisation tool — by our Computer Science alum Chan Qing Zhou and Ian Wu, who are this year’s winners!

➡️ nus.edu/3E2p5T6

Join NUS Computing alumna Guan Dian (Information Systems, Class of 2010) and NUS Engineering alum Jeffrey Tiong at this webinar, as they share how they turned their start-up PatSnap into a unicorn - a term given to privately held startup companies valued at over $1 billion.

PatSnap is a patents search engine for users to find and analyse millions of patents worldwide. The start-up counts major companies such as Disney and Dyson as their clients, and is used by some 10,000 customers globally.

Register for the webinar below!

🗓️ Fri, 17 Sept
⏰12pm to 1pm (GMT +8)
➡️ Register at https://alumnet-login.nus.edu.sg/events/LDsep21reg

📢NUS Computing students, have you collected your FET kits yet? Each student should receive two test kits each. No appointments needed now – simply walk in to the collection points listed above. 😷 Stay tuned for any further updates, and stay safe everyone!

Check out NUS Computing and NOC alumnus Ahmed Aljunied's recently launched property listing app, RIKu! 🏘️Ahmed is the founder of Pinhome, a property start-up he founded in 2019. Pinhome recently launched RIKu together with Indonesian bank, Bank Mandiri, to provide an easier way for Indonesians stuck at home to find properties, book a visit and apply mortgages from their phones! 📲

➡️ https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/bank-mandiri-pinhome-modalku-260020/
📸 NUS Overseas Colleges & Ahmed Aljunied

Carousell has officially become Southeast Asia's latest unicorn startup, valued at USD$1.1 billion! Congrats to Carousell's founders, Quek Siu Rui, Marcus Tan and NUS Computing alumnus Lucas Ngoo (Computer Engineering, Class of 2012) on this milestone! 🙌

➡️ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/carousell-new-funds-and-valuation-at-1point1-billion-.html
📸 Carousell

First year Computer Science student Lee Yi once wrote himself a Python bot that could inform him immediately of available slots for driving lessons. Now that's what we like - using tech to solve problems! 😉

Lee Yi is one of the first two recipients of the Singapore Armed Forces Merit Scholarship from the military's cyber security vocation, dubbed Command, Control, Communications and Computers Expert (C4X). Read more about how his love for programming led him on a mission to defend our nation's critical digital assets👇

➡️ https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/minecraft-whizz-turned-cyber-soldier-wants-to-defend-singapores-digital-assets
📸 Mindef

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮 🍵 🐇

🚶‍♀🚶‍♂️Who would have thought that they way you walk could be used to secure your devices? NUS Computing’s Dr Terence Sim and his research team have found that the way a person walks is not just an indicator of one's health - it can also be used as a form of energy-efficient user authentication, and predict a person's physical attributes. Read more about his work below!

➡️ https://www.sginnovate.com/blog/could-way-you-walk-help-secure-your-data

📣 Have an idea for an interesting & meaningful project? 💚 Keen to combine your passion for computing and community service? Submit your project proposal to seek funding and support as part of the ᴘᴜʙʟɪᴄ ꜱᴇʀᴠɪᴄᴇ ꜰᴇʟʟᴏᴡꜱʜɪᴘ ᴘʀᴏɢʀᴀᴍᴍᴇ, organised by the Centre for Computing for Social Good & Philanthropy (CCSGP).

Deadline closes on Fri, 15 Oct, 11:59pm.

More details at: https://www.facebook.com/ccsgp.nus/posts/145767991090858

➡️ Visit https://www.ccsgp.comp.nus.edu.sg/fellowship-programme for more info
📧 Have more questions? Contact Molly Kruko at ccsgp-staff@googlegroups.com

🍎 👨🏻‍🏫 Find out what Dr Colin Tan has to say about being a teacher at NUS Computing, and why he loves his job!

P.S. Check out the cool gadgets we have at the Makers Lab, a lab at NUS Computing founded by Dr Tan!

➡️ https://www.facebook.com/nusschoolofcomputing/posts/10159932791633885