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

CONGRATS to NUS Computing Asst Prof Kuldeep Meel for winning the prestigious Amazon Research Award! 🎉

He will receive USD$60,000 in funding and AWS Promotional Credits to pursue research on enabling scalability of parallel SAT solvers using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

➡️ nus.edu/2ZdwRJV

📺💻 Anyone ever tried delving into a new film on Netflix, or tried discovering new songs on Spotify? The options seem endless and often paralysing. Enter AI powered recommendations on what to watch & listen, helping us to ease the decision-making process. But who - or what - is responsible for analysing these different data and making recommendations to you?

The answer: algorithms fuelled by data! Computers achieve this task through a process called graph processing. To make graph processing ‘thunder fast’, NUS Computing Associate Professor He Bingsheng and his research team have developed a new graph processing framework called ThunderGP. Check out their research below!

➡️ nus.edu/2XPxYPU

🏙️ NUS Computing Prof Abhik Roychoudhury is one of the co-directors of a new S$56 million hybrid artificial intelligence programme to develop solutions for the creation of smart cities.

Prof Roychoudhury will focus on the foundations of intelligent computing for trustworthy decision making in smart cities.

➡️ https://news.nus.edu.sg/integrated-decision-smart-cities/

Have ideas on how to make NUS Computing more vibrant? 🐱‍💻 Tell us how by taking part in this survey, and stand a chance to win vouchers!

➡️ https://bit.ly/sochome
⚡This survey is only applicable to NUS Computing students. Survey closes on Fri, 8 Oct.

Congrats NUS Computing profs Sanjay Jain, Frank Stephan and their collaborators for winning the EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize! They won the prize for their paper on Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time. Check out their research below!

➡️ nus.edu/39J9WZ8

Keen to develop FinTech specific skills? Learn more about the NUS FinTechSG Programme at this upcoming info session!

🗓️ Thu, 14 Oct
⏰ 3pm - 4:30 pm
➡️ Register at https://stmi.nus.edu.sg/nus-fintechsg-program
💻 Watch to learn more: https://youtu.be/cCoD7kQfiPk

NUS Computing Assistant Professor Yang You has won the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Early Career Researchers Award! 🎉

The award recognises individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within five years of receiving their PhD degree. Congrats, prof You!

➡️ nus.edu/3a99Jib

📢 Do you have ideas on how to make NUS Computing more vibrant? 😺 💻 Need more study spaces, or food and drink options? Tell us how to improve our campus by taking part in this survey, and stand a chance to win vouchers!👇

➡️ https://bit.ly/sochome
⚡ This survey is only applicable to NUS Computing students. Survey closes on Fri, 8 Oct.