Imagine getting an enviable parking lot next to the lift lobby on a crowded weekend or busy workday. Or even securing lots in advance for VIPs at important events – all through a mobile app! 📲 🚗

NUS start-up SureReserve has made this possible with a smart-parking technology solution that is able to guide drivers to their designated lots in real time. Read more to find out how the app makes use of the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve efficiency.

➡️ https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-start-ups-app-makes-sure-you-get-choice-parking-lots--starting-on-campus/

A massive breach was linked to cyber firm SolarWinds last December, letting hackers into thousands of government agencies and companies. The breach was unique not only in its scale, but also in its method of attack. NUS Computing Professor Abhik Roychoudhury and Associate Professor Liang Zhenkai weigh in on what we've learnt from such cyberattacks.

➡️ https://govinsider.asia/intelligent-gov/nus-cscis-abhik-roychoudhury-liang-zhenkai-terence-siau-what-does-the-solarwinds-saga-mean-for-singapore/

Kudos to NUS Computing alumnus Prantik Mazumdar (CEG, 2005) and his wife, who have raised more than S$192,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to procure oxygen for COVID-19 patients in India! 💖 💪

Using crowdfunding platform Milaap (which was founded by NUS Computing alumni Anoj Viswanathan and Sourabh Sharma) to raise funds, the couple are working with two organisations to procure and deliver some hundred plus oxygen concentrators to India. The first batch of oxygen concentrators have landed in New Delhi, and are currently deployed across the country.

Keen to donate to the fundraiser? Visit https://milaap.org/fundraisers/donate-for-Oxygen-3

➡️ https://mothership.sg/2021/05/india-covid-fundraiser-milaap/

Wearables have altered our relationship with exercise, but how do they also impact the other pillar of healthy living — eating right? ⌚🏃🏃‍♀️🍽️ 🥘

NUS Computing Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli & her team examine if mobile health apps have impacted eating behaviour and health outcomes in users, such as weight loss. 📲

➡️ nus.edu/3bbf8Gm

To all the mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day! 💐

The ubiquitous presence of cameras like CCTV cameras and mobile phones has resulted in an explosion of images and video data. While these visual data present advantages, they come with a cost: potential breach of privacy and confidentiality, particularly for information related to human posture and actions.

Join Associate Professor Robby T. Tan, as he discusses the technical challenges and the possible solutions to predict human 3D poses from videos, in a free webinar organised by N-CRiPT and SGInnovate.

🗓️ Wed, 12 May
⏰ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at https://www.sginnovate.com/events/human-3d-pose-estimation-videos-challenges-and-solutions

Selamat Hari Raya to all our Muslim friends, students, and colleagues!

CONGRATS to our student Li Qinbin for winning the PREMIA Best Student Paper Gold Award! 🎉
Qinbin worked with NUS Computing Assoc Prof He Bingsheng on a new federated learning framework for Gradient Boosting Decision Trees that prevents data 'leaks' by sharing gradients, instead of raw data, between devices.

➡️ nus.edu/2S3KWX2

Don't forget to sign up for our upcoming tech webinar on education technology and AI!👇

What will future education technology look like? Will we see an AI robot in the classroom in the future? Join our panellists as we discuss the rise of edtech and what it means for the education sector.

Panellists:
🎤Mr Yee Jenn Jong, education entrepreneur
🎤 NUS Computing Associate Professor Ben Leong

📌Can the teacher be replaced by a robot?

🗓 Fri, 21 May 2021
⏰ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at bit.ly/techweb5

All are welcome!

Learn more about blockchain, bitcoin and decentralisation at this free webinar organised by the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme (SBIP).

🗓️ Tue, 25 May
⏰ 3:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at https://sbip.sg/Analyzing-Bitcoin-Decentralization-From-An-Asset-Perspective/

Not only have robots 'grown' smarter, they have also popped up in homes, shops, and hospitals. 🤖 🏠 🛒 🏥 With Artificial Intelligence set to invade our lives in ever increasing degrees, it is vital for them to be designed carefully so that they can work synergistically with people. Learn how NUS Computing Professor Leong Tze Yun is making AI more human-aware, so that these robots can interact and collaborate effectively with humans.

➡️ nus.edu/2RzWZva

GOOD NEWS: Asst Prof Reza Shokri and his co-authors have won the prestigious IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award 2021!

They received the award for their paper on quantifying location privacy, which was presented at the IEEE Security and Privacy symposium in 2011. In the study, they proposed a formal framework for quantifying the privacy risks of sharing location data, and evaluating the effectiveness of privacy-preserving algorithms.

The Test-of-Time Award recognises research papers that have made a broad and lasting impact on both research and practice in computer security and privacy. Congrats!

➡️ nus.edu/3fit4kk

Our very own Uncle Soo was recently featured in NUS News! Read about his passion for teaching computer science, and the challenges and rewards of teaching👇

➡️ nus.edu/2QSOpHE

Assistant Professor Reza Shokri was recently awarded the VMware Early Career Faculty Award, a grant program that recognises the next generation of exceptional faculty members from universities all over the world. Congrats, Dr. Shokri!

➡️ nus.edu/3p64BlB

Imagine being stuck in a foreign country for a year during the pandemic! 😱 What would you do? Find out more about NUS Computing alumnus Ray Suen's adventures in Buenos Aires, Argentina! 🇦🇷

➡️ bit.ly/rax-in-argentina

Crowdsourcing: harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to attain a common goal.

When you need help, you are almost guaranteed to find a ready army online, volunteering information.💡However, you may receive the same ideas repeatedly from different people. Enter Assistant Professor Brian Lim and his team, who have come up with an algorithm called Directed Diversity to get people to generate more diverse and creative ideas.

➡️ nus.edu/3g9Eciz

Can smart earphones be used to measure a person's manner of walking (i.e. gait)? 🤔 🚶‍♀️Join NUS Computing's Dr Terence Sim and learn how a person's gait may be used for various purposes such as improving one's health, and for continuous authentication.

📅Fri, 18 June
⏰3pm - 4pm SGT (GMT +8)
➡️ Sign up for free at https://www.sginnovate.com/events/what-does-your-walking-reveal-about-you

This webinar is organised by N-CRiPT and SGInnovate.

We're so proud of NUS Computing alumnus Thiru (Business Analytics, Class of 2018), who created this crowd-sourced overlay on Google Maps that highlights digitally disadvantaged hawkers struggling to survive during the pandemic. That's what we hope all our students do when they head out into society - empower the world with tech!

(P.S. Anyone keen to share their ideas or help in any way with the map are welcome to reach out to Thiru, who goes by waffleboy92 on Reddit.)

➡️ https://mothership.sg/2021/06/disadvantaged-hawkers-online-map/

CONGRATS to Assoc Prof Ilya Sergey for winning the Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2021!

The paper describes a new deductive program synthesis technique that solves a long-standing limitation faced by existing approaches, through the use of cyclic proofs.

➡️ nus.edu/3gbqkWc