Up for a hacking challenge?🔥 Look no further than the Hack & Roll, an online hackathon organised by the NUS Hackers, with cool prizes up for grabs! 💻 🔧

The hackathon is open to all students who are studying in any educational institution in Singapore, or any student based in Singapore awaiting entry into an educational institution here.

🗓️ Fri 7 Jan - Sat 8 Jan
➡️ Visit https://hacknroll.nushackers.org/ to learn more and to sign up.
📧 Have questions? Email coreteam@nushackers.org for more information

What is artificial intelligence, and how can you apply it in the context of your work, or a business that you're running? Join this online, 2-day AI course for beginners organised by the Advanced Computing for Executives and gain an in-depth, real-world understanding of machine learning and AI!

🗓️ Thu 10 Feb - Fri 11 Feb 2022
⏰9:00am - 5:30pm
➡️ Visit https://ace.nus.edu.sg/event/ai-and-machine-learning-begins-with-me/ to sign up and learn more
📧 Have questions? Email ACE at soc-ace@nus.edu.sg

💻 Hear from some of the best international computer science researchers at Computer Science Research Week! Registration is free for all.

🗓️ Tue 4 Jan - Fri 7 Jan 2022
⏰ Various timings
➡️ Visit https://researchweek.comp.nus.edu.sg/ to sign up

Trying to stream a live show, but it lags? 😡 NUS Computing Professor Roger Zimmermann and his team have developed an algorithm that offers high-quality streaming with the lowest latency (i.e. lowest time delay) possible. 💻 💨🍿 Here's how it works!

➡️ nus.edu/3eDcY3v

Happy New Year from all of us at NUS Computing! 🎉 🎊What are your resolutions for the year?

Congratulations to NUS Computing alumni, Professors Shen Heng Tao and David Lo, for being elevated to IEEE Fellows this year! 🎉The IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of the prestigious grade elevation.

Prof Shen was recognised for his contributions to multimedia content understanding and retrieval, while Prof Lo was recognised for his contributions contributions to synergising software engineering and data mining. Congrats, profs!

➡️ bit.ly/3pNWGeH

Want to intern at a start-up in 2022? The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme is now open for applications! 🚀
➡️ Apply now: http://bit.ly/NOCApplyInfo
❗Application closes on Fri 21 Jan
📧 Have questions? Contact nocquery@nus.edu.sg

Join the e-ASK NOC session to find out more:
🗓️ Date: Tue 11 Jan
⏰Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
💻 Register at https://bit.ly/eAskNOC_Jul2022Intake

For full-time NUS first-year students who enrolled in AY 2021/2022, you may consider joining the Friends of NOC (FoN) network for updates on the latest NOC happenings, events and internship opportunities with start-ups. You may also apply now for the NOC Singapore programme for the Jul 2022 intake.
🤝 Friends of NOC: bit.ly/FoN2122
🔗 NOC Singapore: https://enterprise.nus.edu.sg/education-programmes/nus-overseas-colleges/programmes/singapore/

*The NOC programmes are only open to current NUS students

Learn how to better protect yourself from cyber threats at this free online webinar organised by Smart Nation Singapore and Advanced Computing for Executives (ACE). 🔐💻

🗓️ Thu Jan 20
⏰ 12pm - 1pm
➡️ Sign up at https://go.gov.sg/wacyberthreats-jan22

💚 Have a tech idea that could benefit the community? Combine your passion for computing and community service with the Centre for Computing for Social Good & Philanthropy's Public Service Fellowship, and turn your tech ideas into reality today.

➡️ Learn more and apply now at https://www.ccsgp.comp.nus.edu.sg/fellowship-programme
❗Submit your application by Fri 18 Feb, 11:59pm
📧 Have questions? Contact us at ccsgp-staff@googlegroups.com

*Note: This programme is only open to current NUS Computing students

NUS Computing Provost's Chair Professor Teo Hock Hai has been appointed the Director of Humanities and Social Sciences Research in the Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), from 1 January 2022.

Prof Teo is an accomplished scholar whose main research interests are health informatics, open innovation, and IT artifacts to improve individual decision-making and health and educational outcomes. He has also been honoured with the AIS Fellow award from the Association of Information Systems in 2014, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and service for information systems.

Congrats to Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli for winning the AIS Fellow Award 2021! 🎉 The prestigious award is given by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) to academics in the Information Systems (IS) discipline.

The AIS Fellow Award recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the IS discipline in terms of research, teaching and service. Prof Kankanhalli was recognised in part for her many valuable contributions to research on online communities and digital collaboration.

➡️ nus.edu/33imG9s

Congrats to the following NUS Computing alumni for winning the NUS Computing Outstanding Computing Alumni Award 2020! 🎉The award is given to alumni whose endeavours in their chosen fields or professions are worthy of recognition and have brought honour to the university or school. ✨

➡️ nus.edu/3GMyqzi

P.S. Keen to nominate an NUS Computing alumnus? Nomination deadline for the Outstanding Computing Alumni Award 2021 is 31 Jan 2022. For more info on the process, please visit https://nus.edu/3nyOq0l

Want to intern at a start-up in 2022? The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme is now open for applications! 🚀
➡️ Apply now: http://bit.ly/NOCApplyInfo
❗Application closes on Fri 21 Jan
📧 Have questions? Contact nocquery@nus.edu.sg

For full-time NUS first-year students who enrolled in AY 2021/2022, you may consider joining the Friends of NOC (FoN) network for updates on the latest NOC happenings, events and internship opportunities with start-ups. You may also apply now for the NOC Singapore programme for the Jul 2022 intake.
🤝 Friends of NOC: bit.ly/FoN2122
🔗 NOC Singapore: https://enterprise.nus.edu.sg/education-programmes/nus-overseas-colleges/programmes/singapore/

*The NOC programmes are only open to current NUS students

Congrats to StaffAny for securing US$3.4 million in funding! The startup, founded by a team of alumni from NUS and the NUS Overseas Colleges programme, helps businesses with a blue-collar workforce to optimise their staff scheduling, time-tracking and end-of-month time sheet consolidation. 📂 🕐 💪

Did You Know: StaffAny was previously located at the Furnace, an early-stage startup incubator in NUS? They were also a recipient of NUS Computing's Venture Initiation Program (VIP) grant, a 1-year grant that awards NUS student teams a cool $10,000 to work on their startup idea.

P.S. We're also giving a special shoutout to our alumnus Jeremy Hon (Computer Science, Class of 2018), co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at StaffAny! 😉

🔗 Learn more about our VIP@SoC grant: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/entrepreneurship/furnace/application/overview/

➡️ https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/start-up-staffany-founded-by-nus-grads-raises-46-million-in-funding

What will it mean for society when machines, and the corporations and governments they serve, can ‘read’ people’s minds and emotions? 🤔 As AI tech matures, it's important to consider its implications. 🤖 Enter NUS Computing Assistant Prof Desmond Ong and his practical guidelines on how we should ethically develop, and use affectively-aware AI — artificial intelligence that can recognise emotional expressions.

➡️ nus.edu/3fGzPvE

Keen to turn an innovative idea of yours into a real business? 💡Hear from some start-up founders as they share their personal experiences and candid insights into their journey as an innovator!

📌 Topic: Start Up Pitching 1-2-3!
🗓️ Mon 24 Jan
⏰ 7pm - 9:15pm
➡️ Visit https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/journey-of-the-innovator-start-up-pitching-1-2-3-tickets-244794215087 to sign up

📌 Topic: From the Horses' Mouths
🗓️ Mon 7 Feb
⏰ 7pm - 9:15pm
➡️ Visit https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/journey-of-the-innovator-from-the-horses-mouth-tickets-246962470397 to sign up

📌 Topic: Money Talks
🗓️ Mon 21 Feb
⏰ 7pm - 9:15pm
➡️ Visit https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/journey-of-the-innovator-money-talks-tickets-246979230527 to sign up

Whatcha think of our new COM3 building? 🤩 🏢 Still a work in progress, but we can't wait to explore it soon! Learn more about the newest kid on the block below, and stay tuned to our socials for more updates about COM3!

➡️ com3.comp.nus.edu.sg/

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and NUS renewed an agreement on Tuesday to continue its joint research collaboration through the IPAL, a French-Singaporean International Research Laboratory formed in 1998.

The agreement solidifies the renewal of the lab until 2025, and paves the way for more ground-breaking collaborative research, where researchers can work together to create better solutions to address complex real-world problems.

➡️ nus.edu/3fZNON9

We warmly welcome Assistant Profs Li Xiaofan, Varun Karamshetty, Nakyung Kyung and Aditya Karanam to NUS Computing's Department of Information Systems & Analytics! 👋

➡️ nus.edu/33WvOkn

Keen to kickstart your career in the FinTech industry? Join the NUS FinTech SG Programme info session, and learn how you can do so!
🗓️ Thu 24 Feb
⏰ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
➡️ https://ace.nus.edu.sg/nus-fintechsg-programme/
📧 For more enquiries, email soc-ace@nus.edu.sg