Help Our Hawkers! 🍚

If you have no idea what to eat in the next coming days 🥘 😋, head down to these hawker stalls near you and support these uncles and aunties who are not tech savvy and struggling to keep their businesses going with the current no dining-in restrictions.

Help Our Hawkers was built by our very own NUS Computing alumnus and valedictorian Thiru Kumaran 💪!

Think you can make Thiru's map even more amazing? Contributions are most welcome too!

📍 Map: https://bit.ly/hawker-help-map or https://hawker.help
➡️ Read more about the map's back story: https://mothership.sg/.../disadvantaged-hawkers-online-map/
🤝 Contribute here: bit.ly/hawker-help-form

Join us for Computing Research Week, happening next week! 💻

🗓️ Tues, 3 Aug - Thu, 5 Aug
➡️ Register for free at https://researchweek.comp.nus.edu.sg/

Congratulations to NUS Computing profs Dr Lek Hsiang Hui, Dr Steven Halim, Dr Henry Chia and A/P Tan Wee Kek, who were conferred the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for Academic Year (AY) 2018/2019 this year! 🎉

Dr Lek and Dr Halim were placed on the Honour Roll for 2019 and 2020 respectively, after having won the ATEA thrice.

➡️ nus.edu/3iZ7sdr

Apart from tech skills, the tech industry is also looking for employees who can bring their experience and knowledge of certain industries or sectors to their roles.

As NUS Computing Assoc Prof Keith Carter says, "We need everyone", regardless of the level of digital readiness you're at!

Keen to begin a career in tech, but not sure where to start? Head down to the 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗫 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 roadshow to learn more:

📍Toa Payoh HDB Atrium Hub
🗓️ 6 Aug - 8 Aug
⏰ 11am - 8pm
➡️ Visit https://go.gov.sg/SFM21-SN for more information
🔗Read more: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jobs/tech-lite-roles-in-ict-sector-also-need-to-be-filled-josephine-teo

Welcome (back) to school everyone! 👋 To our incoming freshmen, welcome to the NUS Computing family! We've compiled some handy info for you - check it out! 👇

➡️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CSEGvWUlSgP/

Computing Research Week begins today! 💻 Don't forget to sign up if you haven't!

🗓️ Tues, 3 Aug - Thu, 5 Aug
➡️ Register for free at https://researchweek.comp.nus.edu.sg/

📢 Seeking some school survival tips for NUS Computing freshmen!

Current students, any tips or advice for new students? 💬 Leave messages for our new freshmen, (like how to navigate uni-life in the midst of a pandemic), on this online message board: padlet.com/nuscomputing/freshmen

Interested to pursue 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

Step out of your comfort zone and venture into the global entrepreneurship community with NUS Overseas Colleges! 🚀 🌏
Applications for the Jan 2022 intake are now open. Don't miss this opportunity to intern at a local or overseas start-up!

➡️ Apply now at bit.ly/NOCApplyInfo

🏆 Six NUSComputing graduates recently won the Outstanding Computing Project Prize, a new prize that was instituted in 2020.

Four Computer Science graduates, Liu Zhaoyu Liu, Monika Manuela Hengki, Ronald Santoso and Sean Ng Peng Nam, along with Business Analytics graduate Kong Yan San Kong and Computer Engineering graduate Ang Jie Liang, each won the Outstanding Computing Project Prize.

The prize is awarded by the school to recognise undergraduates who have produced excellent Final Year Projects (FYPs), or projects under the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP).

Congrats to the award winners!

➡️ nus.edu/2WP8MYG

How can we allocate newly available office space in a manner that’s fair to all? Or how does one divide a space fairly so that vendors may set up their stalls at a safe distance apart, with current COVID-19 restrictions?

NUS Presidential Young Professor Warut Suksompong discusses his research on allocating resources fairly, even with real-world constraints.

➡️ nus.edu/3itxUMW

⚠️Cuteness alert: NUS Computing alumnus and Silicon Valley software engineer Chai Jia Xun created this palm-sized trinket prototype of the Singapore MRT map on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). How cool is that? Check it out!

➡️ https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/1679166-software-engineer-recreates-singapore-mrt-on-a-circuit-board

Happy National Day from our mascot, SocCat, and all of us at NUS Computing! 🇸🇬

📣 NUS Computing students & staff: don't forget to join us for Computing Day tomorrow!
🔥Students, here's your chance to ask your profs any burning questions, and learn about what the various student clubs do. We also hear there are lots of cool prizes to be won!

➡️ Register here: https://bit.ly/compday21
🔗 Visit https://www.instagram.com/p/CSJzDjpFenv/ for the full programme line up!

Computing Day is organised by the NUS Students'​ Computing Club

Heartiest congratulations to all NUS Computing staff and faculty members who received National Day Awards this year! 🎉 🏆 We thank you for your dedication and contribution to the school and the university.

Check out the award recipients below!

➡️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CSYnbbNrcO6/

Interested to pursue 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

NUS Alumni has organised a series of webinars featuring a few of our NUS Computing alumni and colleagues. Join them tomorrow as they discuss various tech topics, from datascience and analytics, to 5G tech and FinTech.

🗓️ Sat, 14 August
⏰ 10:00am - 4:30pm (various timings)
➡️ For more info on the programme lineup and to register for the webinars, visit https://nus.edu.sg/alumnet/events/kent-ridge-alumni-family-day-2021

Congrats to NUS Computing faculty members Professor Joxan Jaffar, Associate Professor Prateek Saxena and Assistant Professor Angela Yao, who were awarded funding from the MOE Academic Research Funding (AcRF) Tier 2 scheme, to further their research.

➡️ nus.edu/2UhOrdQ

Detecting, and stopping phishing attacks, investigating suspicious activity, or hunting for potential attacks - that's all in a day's work for security operations analyst Cherlynn Cha, an NUS Computing alumna who works as a 'threat-hunter' at ExpressVPN. Find out what a typical day is like for Cherlynn!

➡️ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/behind-the-scenes-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cybersecurity-threat-hunter/

Today, we're able to measure human behaviours with a precision largely thought impossible just a decade ago, using data, information processing & computational methods.

Join the Global Forum of Computational Social Science, and hear from leading scholars as they discuss the current challenges & growing potential of computational social science in areas such as social media, health, education & crisis management.

🗓️ Mon, 23 Aug - Wed, 25 Aug
➡️ Register at nus.edu/2XlfSVf

🎤 Asst. Prof Lim Shi Ying will be moderating the session on Education & Trade on 23 Aug.
🎤 Asst. Prof Jin Chen will be presenting his paper on "Faking Orders on E-commerce Platforms" on 23 Aug.
🎤 Assoc Prof Huang Ke-Wei will be presenting his paper on "Exploring the Regional Spillover Effects of University AI Research on the Creation and Performance of AI Start-ups" on 23 Aug.
🎤 Assoc Prof Goh Khim Yong, Head of the Dept. of Information Systems and Analytics, will be closing the forum on 25 Aug.