• 1st Runners Up in Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2012, Singapore
• Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2012

• SCE's Undergraduates, the Highest Earning Graduates of NTU, 2 Years in a Row!
• SCE's Assistant Professor Steven Wong Kai Juan Awarded NTU's 2012 Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching!

• SCE Student, Singapore Delegate to Harvard’s National Model United Nations & Senior VP on Google's Executive Board!
• Best Student Paper Award from PREMIAICTAI 2011 Best Paper Award
• BAE Systems Best Student Paper Award at the 2012 IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference

• Best Paper Award at the 2012 International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM)
• 4th in 2011 HEEACT University Ranking

Best Paper Award from the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2012

Assistant Professor Dusit Niyato and Assistant Professor Wang Ping of SCE along with their collaborators won the Best Paper Award from the IEEE WCNC 2012 (Services, Applications, and Business Track). WCNC is the global premier wireless event that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to exchange information and ideas on the advancement of wireless communications andnetworking technology.

Read an abstract of their winning paper.

1st Runners Up in Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2012, Singapore

Team Social Cops emerged 1st Runner Up in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2012, Singapore. The team consisting of four NTU undergraduates beat 83 other teams in this competition. SCE students Varun Banka, Harjoben Singh and Bhavdeep Singh along with Wee Kim Wee’s communication studies student Sneha Gururaj came together to devise a civic engagement application that would be compatible with both mobile and web technology.

The objective of this app is to bring transparency to citizens in developing nations, facing corruption and other administrative problems. The team aims to further develop and refine this project and seek ways to engage and encourage collaboration between the citizens, NGOs and authorities in these countries. Ultimately, these students aspire to empower these individuals and create a more transparent society which could help change their lives for the better.

Like any other undergraduate, the team members balance student life, quizzes, and exams. To prepare for this competition, they put in hours a day for several months, trying to create a technically-strong yet socially-appropriate solution that not only helps the common man but also reaches out to him in a feasible and relevant manner.

Imagine Cup is a premier student technology competition that challenges students from around the world to create technological solutions for the world's toughest problems. Their application, Social Cops, has also been selected to qualify for another segment of the Imagine Cup 2012; Round 2 of the Windows Phone 7 Category.

Based on Singapore's Ministry of Education's (MOE) Survey, the Graduate Employment Survey (GES), SCE’s Class of 2011 graduates ranked as the top earners in NTU! 

The GES survey is released annually by the Ministry of Education and publishes results of the key employment indicators to provide prospective students with timely and comparable data, to assist them in making informed course decisions. For 2011, 12,998 graduates from the three publicly-funded universities, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Management University were surveyed with an overall response rate of 75%.

SCE’s Computer Engineering graduates surveyed took home an average monthly pay of $3,577 while SCE’s Computer Science graduates came in a close 3rd with a mean pay of $3,425.

The SCE’s Class of 2010, Computer Science graduates ranked 1st with a mean monthly pay of S$3,385. SCE’s Computer Engineering graduates make 3rd place at S$3,272, excluding NIE. 

MOE Survey Results | 2011 NTU Survey Results | 2010 NTU Survey Results

Assistant Professor Steven Wong was presented him with the prestigious Nanyang Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012's Nanyang Awards Ceremony. Professor Wong, affectionately nicknamed by his students as "Mr A-Ha", is familiar face to SCE's year 2 students and many vouch that his lessons are very enjoyable. He has also been nominated the Most Popular Year 2 Lecturer by SCE students for two consecutive years! 

The highest recognition conferred by NTU to individual faculty, the Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching is presented to faculty who have exhibited excellent teaching practice & enriched the learning experiences of their students through their enthusiasm, care & close rapport.

Hailed by his peers as NTU School of Computer Engineering's (SCE) “Wonder Boy” and “Champion Student”, Zhengxiang has done SCE and Singapore proud once again!

Pan Zhengxiang, Computer Science (Honours) student had completed his Engineering Degree with SCE and decided to take a different path in education by extending his student life in NTU to further his interest minoring in Public Administration. Despite numerous accolades such as being conferred the prestigious IT Youth Leader Award (Youth), JCI The Outstanding Young Persons of the World (2nd in Science and Technology), National Youth Council Most Favourite Star Of SHINE nominee and the first to receive NTU SCE’s Best Outstanding Student Award, Zhengxiang is also one of Singapore's youngest  Grassroots Leader who has actively served the community since a tender age of 17.

Recently, he had the opportunity to experience Harvard Kennedy Government School, greatly widening his exposure and network. We wish Zhengxiang all the best as he continue the quest to make a difference to our country and community!  

He wrote a personal note to share his experience and learning. 

Recognised as one of the largest, oldest, and most prestigious conferences of its kind: the fifty-eighth year of Harvard’s attempt to model the United Nations bring forth the prospect of bringing change makers throughout the world in order to engage in enlightening debate over the most pressing issues that face the international community today.

The Harvard University’s National Model United Nations shows me the multitude of global diversity and hunger of youths wanting to make the change! This is my very first solo trip to USA, making wonderful delegates friends from all over the globe and great exposure in the inter-cultural context. Majoring in Computer Science (Honours), I’m grateful for my professor mentors such as Prof Quek Hiok Chai, Prof Yeo Chai Kiat, Prof Wenxuan Yu, Prof Hallam Stevens, Prof Goh Geok Yian, Mdm Mahaini A. Hamid, Prof Lijun, Prof Miao Chunyan, Prof Ong Yew Soon, Prof Steven Wong, and many more awe-inspiring professors at NTU. NTU has an incredible T-shape education structure that allows me to minor in Public Administration as well as pursue my interest such as History of Science, Malay Language, Foreign Policy and Communications so that I can contribute more effectively to our community at-large.  

 As the only Singaporean and Asian to be selected in the Special Select Committee/Specialised Agencies, Google’s Executive Board, assuming the role of Senior Vice President, Publicity and Outreach – I’m grateful for the mentorship guidance from Ms Ellen Lee PBM (Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Mr Yam Ah Mee (PA Chief Executive Director), lawyer Ms Devi Haridas, community leaders at Woodlands and NTU professors that has equipped me well for making the speech and debate on global humanitarian stage, facing over 3000 delegates from around 35 nations. Their guidance has equipped me well to maximise the rare opportunity at Harvard University. It has been an useful lifetime worth of experience.

 As leaders of tomorrow, we have to be packed with courage and innovative mindset; remind ourselves to step out of our comfort zone and explore resolutions to make our world a better place.

Pan Zhengxiang,
Singapore Delegate to Harvard’s National Model United Nations

PhD student Li Shukai was granted the Best Student Paper Award (Gold Prize) from the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) for his notable work Maximum Margin/Volume Outlier Detection published in the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011). This work also clinched the Best Paper Award at ICTAI 2011. 

PREMIA, which is an affiliated member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), aims to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in Singapore who are interested in pattern recognition and machine intelligence research. Every year PREMIA chooses the best from its student members’ papers, published in top journals and conferences on relevant topics in the previous year. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, pattern recognition and machine intelligence in applied domains including computer vision, image processing, speech analysis, robotics, multimedia, document analysis, character recognition, knowledge engineering, fractal analysis and intelligent control. These involve using methods such as statistical techniques, neural networks, evolutionary programming, fuzzy logic, machine learning and hardware implementation. The final decision is judged by the award committee based on the novelty and impact of the papers. 

Shukai would like to take this opportunity to express his heartfelt appreciation to his mentor Professor Ivor W. Tsang, "Thank you for your long term support and guidance. As a member of SCE, I feel the research of our school has made significant progress in recent years, and our researchers gain more and more prizes worldwide."

Read the Abstract of his paper.

The BAE Systems Best Student Paper Award was given out to Ramya Hebbalaguppe in January at the 2012 Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference. An SCE visiting researcher, Ramya joined SCE from October 2009 to January 2011. Her interests in Digital Photography and Image Processing, this led her to SCE’s Associate Professor Ramakrishna Kakarala, whose expertise was in the field of Computational Photography.

Co-authored by Professor Kakarala, her winning paper, An efficient multiple exposure image fusion in JPEG domain was published in SPIE Proceedings Vol 8299 and received much interest from the engineers at Sony and Rambus in the testing method used. 

Held in San Francisco, the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference attracted industry experts and professionals. The IS&T as well as the SPIE hold major conferences, educational programs, and technical exhibitions globally. IS&T is an international society related to all aspects in the field of imaging, in particular, digital printing, electronic imaging, color science, photofinishing, image preservation, silver halide, pre-press technology, and hybrid imaging systems. The SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light. 

Read the paper Abstract & her Personal Thank You Note.