Don't miss NUS Computing's second Technology Webinar Series on AI and jobs, taking place tomorrow:

🗓️ Wed, 11 Nov
⏰ 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
📌 Topic: AI and the Future of Jobs
If AI will replace human jobs, how should we prepare our citizens and companies for the future?
➡️ Sign up here: bit.ly/ai-and-jobs

Join us at the 17th Sch of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS), a festive online student showcase tomorrow!

🗓️ Wed, 11 Nov
⏰ 3 - 8pm
➡️ Visit https://isteps.comp.nus.edu.sg/event/17th-steps to register.

Registration is free and open to all!

NUS Computing Assistant Professor Reza Shokri and his team developed the "Machine Learning Privacy Meter”, a tool that helps AI systems guard against data leakage.

Asst Prof Reza and his research collaborators, Mr Mihir Khandekar, Ms Chang Hongyan, Ms Aadyaa Maddi, and Mr Rishav Chourasia, took three years to develop the tool.

➡️ https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/nus-team-develops-tool-that-can-assess-vulnerability-of-ai-systems-to-attacks

Can articifial intelligence help advance research in quantum physics? Associate Professor Stéphane Bressan explains how transfer learning can aid in solving a quantum many-body problem: finding the critical point where a system switches between two completely different states (e.g. when a liquid transitions to a gas).

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At the 17th School of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS), more than 45 student teams from six modules presented their student projects to faculty members, industry guests, sponsors and investors. From machine learning to game development, information systems and software engineering, we were wowed by all the creativity and innovation on display!

Congratulations to our award winners, who won cash prizes of up to SGD$150!

👉 Check out our top student projects on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/p/CHhqTvEnGnX/

➡️ To view more information about the winning teams, visit bit.ly/17stepsawards

Join NUS Computing Assistant Professor Reza Shokri at the third N-CRiPT Public Seminar to learn about AI, machine learning techniques and how they can be improved to preserve privacy.

🗓️ Thurs, 26 Nov
⏰ 3pm on Zoom
➡️ Register now at bit.ly/ncript-3

Congrats to NUS Computing Associate Professor Kan Min-Yen and Computer Engineering alum Nguyen Van Hoang for winning the Best Paper award at the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management!

Check out their work on a fake news detector, which also bagged Hoang the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize for AY2019/2020!

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GOOD NEWS: Our Computer Science profs Chan Mun Choon and Han Jun, and their PhD students Nishant Budhdev and Nitya Lakshmanan have earned a spot in GSMA's Mobile Security Hall of Fame! 🎉

They, along with our former Assistant Prof Kang Min Suk, were recognised for discovering a new security vulnerability involving mobile phones. 📲

➡️ nus.edu/3325r8T

Our Master of Science in Business Analytics and Computer Science students won the Chengdu 80 Financial Technology competition this year, with Pisces, their innovative financial investment advisory platform. 🎉 Their platform helps investors make informed investment decisions, using explainable AI techniques and blockchain technologies.

Read more about the platform they developed below.

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Congratulations to Associate Professor Hahn Jungpil and Master's in Information Systems graduate Vasilii Zorin for winning the Best Paper award in the Information Systems Development & Project Management track, at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2020!

For their paper, A/P Hahn and Vasilii explored which organisational team structure would be most effective in developing and delivering valuable software products to the market. Check it out below!

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More GOOD NEWS! 🎉 NUS Computing Associate Professor Hahn Jungpil and PhD graduate Peng Jiaxu won the Best Paper award in the Advances in Research Methods track at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2020!

In their research, they identified two fundamental trade-offs in machine learning-based predictive analytics for dynamic data environments. Check it out below.

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What does it take to start your own company? Are you aware of the $10,000 grant that NUS Computing offers to support students & alumni who are trying to bring their ideas to fruition? Prof Francis Yeoh discusses the school's efforts to nurture entrepreneurial spirit:

➡️ nus.edu/2Jkl2JT

Happy Computer Security Day! 💻 🔒DYK that the first cyberattack, the Morris worm, was accidentally launched 32 years ago in November 1988 by Robert Tappan Morris? This was before the World Wide Web was invented.

🌐 Morris, then a Cornell University graduate student, wanted to find out the size of the Internet, so he created a programme that would help him gauge how big it was, and launched it from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thus, the world’s first computer worm was born. It was also the world’s first distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.

📨 The Morris worm spread rapidly to computers operating on the Unix system. (Such worms don’t need a software as its host, so it was able to replicate itself easily.) About 10% of the computers connected to the nascent electronic network that existed then were hit. This included computers used by prestigious universities like Harvard and Stanford. The worm slowed down computers, made them unusable, delayed emails and business functions.

Congratulations to NUS Computing Professor Dong Jin-Song (second from right in photo) for winning the University Research Recognition Award! The award recognises researchers whose works have impacted and advanced the frontiers of knowledge, and positioned NUS at the forefront of their areas of expertise. Read more about his win below.

➡️ nus.edu/3lRqBxb

Is your robot vacuum cleaner spying on you? 👀 Assistant Professor Han Jun and his team, led by Computer Science PhD student Sriram Sami, discovered that Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) sensors on such devices could potentially be used to eavesdrop on private conversations. Their work won them the Best Poster Runner-Up award at the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020). Congratulations!

➡️ nus.edu/3gqF6H6

CONGRATS to Associate Professor He Bingsheng and his collaborators for winning the IEEE TPDS 2019 Best Paper award!

Their Gradient Boosting Decision Tree algorithm, ThunderGBM, can achieve a speedup of 40 times as compared to current state-of-the-art approaches. Check it out below!

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Have you started your Christmas shopping? 🎄🎅 Our Masters in Computing students and alumni - Dao Xiong, Harish, Srivatsan and Joy - are looking to revolutionise the gifting process by making sure people receive the gift they truly want, with Gratify Gifts (https://gratify.sg/), a start-up they launched this month.

Gratify aims to make the gift-giving process environmentally friendly, and reduce wastage caused by unwanted gifts. Harish tells us how gift recipients get to keep, swap or donate the gifts received with their start-up below!

➡️ https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5335151226502999

GOOD NEWS: For their outstanding scientific contributions to computing, NUS Computing Associate Professor He Bingsheng and Provost's Chair Professor Abhik Roychoudhury were named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals! 🥳

This year, ACM named a total of 64 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. These innovators have made contributions in a wide range of technical areas including data science, mobile and pervasive computing, artificial intelligence, computer science education, computer engineering, graphics, cybersecurity, and networking, among many other areas.

➡️ https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/december/distinguished-members-2020