#NUSComputing student Sumit Sanjay Shinde was selected as 1 of 14 university builders globally for the #XRPL Student Builder Residency 2026 in London, where he developed Verix, a blockchain-based task settlement system for #AI agents.
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Congrats to NUS Computing's Assistant Professor Ambuj Varshney on receiving a 2026 Google Research Award for TinyLLM – language models small enough to run on wearables and sensors, no cloud needed: comp.nus.edu.sg/bytes/shrink…#NUSComputingResearch#LLM
Your flight price just moved again. Whether that helped or hurt you depends less on the algorithm and more on how many carriers are fighting for the route.
Read more about Assistant Professor Chen Nan's research: comp.nus.edu.sg/features/whe…
Somewhere in your department, lab, conference circuit – there's an early-career researcher doing work that could define the next chapter of computing.
The NUS Computing Ascent Prize was created to find them.
Nominations close 15 June 2026: tinyurl.com/yc3aa28t
Asst Prof Umang Mathur has been awarded the T-PYP grant for his work on safer hardware design.
His team is building Anvil – a language that makes timing assumption in chip design explicit and checkable, so bugs are caught before fabrication, not after: tinyurl.com/338zfntp
Congratulations to Prof He Bingsheng receives a 2026 Google Research Award for building tools that automatically optimise large-scale AI workloads on TPUs – making efficient ML accessible to any researcher, not just systems specialists.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/85zx9b6e
Your gut talks to your brain.
What if you could talk back? NUS Computing researchers replayed gut sounds as stomach vibrations – and it shifted hunger perception and drinking behaviour.
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Singapore Vision Day 2026 brought together researchers, students, and industry practitioners across computer vision, embodied AI, robotics, and multimodal AI at NUS Computing.
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Prof Abhik Roychoudhury’s @autocoderover technology launched globally as @SonarSource's SonarQube Remediation Agent at #ATxSummit2026.
Built on AutoCodeRover, the Sonar Foundation Agent has achieved top-ranking results on the SWE-bench Verified: tinyurl.com/3sk3s2p7
Congrats to Assoc Prof Ben Leong and the AICET team! NUS Computing wins the OpenGov Asia Recognition of Excellence Award 2026 for ScholAIstic – an AI platform that gives every student the experience of learning by doing: tinyurl.com/yz7pb9da#FutureofLearning#EdTech
Is your AI gaslighting you?
🎙️Our first episode of SoC TechBytes is out: Asst Prof Yi-Chieh Lee on confidence alignment, cognitive echo, and why the most certain AI might be the most dangerous.
🎧 Listen now: tinyurl.com/mr5saj4r
He designed a walking bear for a school workshop in 2019.
Six years later, he's still running the Bionic Bear Workshop for primary school kids across Singapore: tinyurl.com/exfhdabb#NUSComputing#STEMEducation
The National Cybersecurity Olympiad 2026 wrapped at @NUSComputing – 73 students from 20 schools took on a five-hour Capture the Flag challenge, with top performers set to represent Singapore at ICO 2026.
More on what went down: tinyurl.com/3bcjnnzu
🎉Congrats to Prof Yang You on receiving the 2026 Google Research Award!
His project: building the systems foundations for diffusion-based LLMs – AI that generates text in parallel, up to 10x faster than current models. All tools open source.
Read more: tinyurl.com/2dzbjfaa
What does it mean to be named an NUS Computing Ascent Fellow?
All-expenses-paid trip to SG, research talks, lab visits, convos with senior scholars – culminating in the Ascent Gala in Jan 2027.
Nominate by 15 June '26: tinyurl.com/yc3aa28t#NUSComputing#ResearchExcellence
🎉NUS Computing's Asst Prof Jiang Wenqi has won the 2026 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award – the top honour for early-career data management researchers. His PhD work at ETH Zurich tackled making modern AI systems faster and more efficient: comp.nus.edu.sg/bytes/assist…
Thanks to everyone who joined our NUS Computing Info Session on Saturday.
Full rooms across CS and DISA, with great questions, conversations, and connections throughout the day.
See you again soon.
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Singaporean academics heading overseas for a PhD or postdoc – the NUS Development Grant tops up your existing funding, no bond attached.
- PhD: S$10k/year (up to 3 years)
- Postdoc: S$20k/year (up to 2 years)
Apply by 31 May 2026: tinyurl.com/4vcbrh99#NUS#PhD#Postdoc
NUS School of Computing Master’s students swept the AI Innovation Challenge 2026 🏆
The winning teams came from our MSc Business Analytics and MComp AI programmes 👏
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