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Despite initial setbacks such as competition stress and terrain unfamiliarity, Team Bumblebee bounced back and defended their Championship title 🏆 at the recent RoboSub2023 competition 🤖! Good job, team! ➡️ https://nus.edu/3sD0XVT

That concludes Orbital 🚀 for this year! A whopping number of 518 teams participated and showcased their boundless creativity and talent. ➡️ Check out the winning projects from Splashdown and collaboration we had with Bytedance. ℹ️ Orbital Splashdown is the closing event of NUS Orbital, a self-directed programming course for newly minted Year 2 students, where they embarked on their own projects & picked up software development skills over the summer.

Did you know? The School of Computing was formally established in 1998 with two departments — the Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Systems. From a modest self-starter to a highly acclaimed school today, it has been an amazing 25-year journey. Watch how our story unfolded here: ➡ https://bit.ly/3YXSuZr #NUSComputing #NUSExcellence #NUSInnovation #Technology

The Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (OURP) is an annual, university-wide research competition that recognises the best undergraduate researchers in NUS. Well done to all the winners of AY2022/2023! 👍 ➡️ https://nus.edu/3svAJVl

We're thrilled to share that the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023) was a success for two of our research papers! 1️⃣ NUS Young Presidential Professor Yang You and team's paper, "CAME: Confidence-guided Adaptive Memory Efficient Optimisation," was selected by the Best Paper Committee for the Outstanding Paper Award. 2️⃣ Professor Lee Wee Sun and his team's paper, "Tell2Design: A Dataset for Language-Guided Floor Plan Generation," was selected for the Area Chair Award under Resources and Evaluation track. ➡️ https://nus.edu/3qEU4D9

🚀 Splashing down in 3...2...1... Come down to check out NUS Orbital's poster presentation sessions, CFG & NOC booths, invited talks and awards ceremony for this year! 📍COM1 Level 2 ⏰ 18:00-21:00 📆 23 Aug, Wed Can't come? Splashdown will also be livestreamed on 🌐 bit.ly/orbital23-splashdown-live. ⏰ 19:10-21:00 📆 23 Aug, Wed ℹ️ NUS Orbital is a self-directed programming course for our SoC Year 1 students. They'll embark on their own projects & pick up software development skills during the summer. Final projects are presented at the closing event, Orbital Splashdown.

A big round of applause to our #NUSComputing students for clinching Gold 🥇 for Flag Day once again this year! Many of them took to the streets on 29 July and raised an approximate sum of $11,700. No easy feat! Proceeds will be channelled through Community Chest to 20 Social Service Agencies. More Good News: Decked in rainbow 🌈 makeup and colourful costumes, our students took over UTown Green last Saturday with an electrifying ⚡ performance and earned a Shining Silver 🥈 for RAG! Well done everyone!

Exactly a month ago, NUS Greyhats and National Cybersecurity Lab (NCL) concluded another highly successful Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition. ⛳️ A total of 90 international and local active members of the CTF community were invited to compete in the challenge which was held at SoC Multipurpose Hall on 15-16 July. ➡ Read more about the competition and the winners here: https://nus.edu/47qJhwR

GOOD NEWS: NUS Presidential Young Professor Kuldeep Meel and PhD student Jiong Yang has clinched the Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2023)! 🎉📝 The pair proposed a novel technique known as "rounding" to address Model Counting, a fundamental computational problem in their winning paper. ➡️ https://nus.edu/45299xu

Happy National Day, Singapore! From all of us at #NUSComputing 🎂 🇸🇬

Calling all aspiring entrepreneurs! Forge your ideas 🌟 as an entrepreneurial maverick with the Venture Initiation Programme (VIP@SoC) grant. The grant spans for one year and awards up to $10,000. BetterEarth, one of the AY22/23 Sem 2 winners spoke to us. Armed with a passion to make eco-living more accessible, the team developed an app, EcoQuest 🌱 which they cheekily quipped as “your ticket to a sustainable lifestyle gaming adventure.” 👆Tap to read more about their experience in the VIP@SoC programme and apply now at bit.ly/vip-soc! Application closes on 1 Sep 2023.

Fintech innovations have become integral components of the socio-, economic and technological ecosystem. However, overcoming challenges—with particular regard to the custody of digital assets—is crucial for fintech's sustained growth. Leading this project, NUS Computing, Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) and Northern Trust announced their commitment to support the development of blockchain technologies for institutional use on 12 July. ➡️ https://nus.edu/3rUq0DO

Have you ever participated in the National Steps Challenge🚶‍♂️? For those who are unaware of it, you get rewarded for completing a certain amount of steps each day. A China-based fitness app takes it up a notch–users can earn points and compete with peers. How does these gamification 👾elements affect user behaviour between different groups and what factors should we measure them by? ➡️ NUS Computing Provost Chair's Professor Teo Hock Hai, Associate Professor Goh Khim Yong and Associate Professor Sharon Tan finds out here: https://nus.edu/44YMEJ6

Fuel your knowledge or accelerate your career with our Master in Computing programmes (General and Specialisation track)! Applications for January 2024 intake are now open. 📆 Application closes on 31 Aug ➡️ Visit https://nus.edu/3rRPpxB for more info

A decade ago, when cloud computing was still new, Asst Prof Djordje Jevdjic and his team delved into an innovative study that led to the pioneering CloudSuite ☁, a set of benchmarking applications that mimic the software stacks running in the cloud. This tool, developed to measure the performance of new hardware products, quickly gained traction among tech giants like Google and Facebook, becoming a significant tool to guide hardware development and evaluation. ➡ https://nus.edu/3DkE5ww

Presenting our SoC graduates... You've worked hard and congratulations on this glorious milestone!

Dear 🎓#NUSComputing Class of 2023, you made it! 🎉🎉 Congratulations 🎊 once again on your amazing achievements! 💻🔝 Before you go, take a look 👀 at what your lecturers 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 and professors 🎓 have to say: https://bit.ly/3ObtlXI #NUSCommencement #Graduation #Congratulations #NUS2023

Heartiest Congratulations to #NUSComputing’s Class of 2023! You have done us proud, and now it’s time to go out and change the world for the better! As you embark on the next lap of your journey, here are a few words of encouragement from the dean: 1. Be proud of what you have achieved and believe in yourself 2. Don’t stop learning and acquiring new knowledge even after you leave NUS. 3. Put your newly honed skills to good use, not just for yourself and the industry you will work in, but for the greater good of the community. 4. Stay connected with #NUSComputing. Share your achievements with us and inspire future cohorts of students who will walk the same path as you once did. Check out the snippet below or the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuw4xw0LFuo

Hello everyone! 🎉 We're live at #NUS2023's 🎓 commencement for the School of Computing 💻. Stay tuned 📲 for more pictures 📸 and updates! You can also watch the #NUSComputing Commencement ceremonies live here 🌐: www.nus.edu.sg/commencement/webcast.html on 13 July (C23, C24) 🗓 and 14 July (C25, C26) 🗓. #Live #NUSCommencement #Graduation #Congratulations

🎉 Great news! NUS Computing Provost’s Chair Prof Abhik Roychoudhury & team have been awarded a S$6.7M grant 💰 by the NRF National Cybersecurity R&D Programme. The team aims to advance fuzz testing tech and detect security vulnerabilities in concurrent, stateful, and reactive software systems. They will strive to make open-source software less susceptible to attacks and enhance the community by fostering academia-industry ties & hosting annual summer schools for students 🎓. Read more about Prof Abhik and his team's work here: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/news/2023-fuzz-testing-aroychoudhury/ #NUSComputing #Cybersecurity #FuzzTesting #NRF #ResearchGrant