Outstanding Young Alumni Award for CDE Alumni Awards 2025 – Department of the Built Environment

Congratulations to Istilah Yanti Binte Mohamed Abali on receiving the Outstanding Young Alumni Award for CDE Alumni Awards 2025!

The NUS College of Design and Engineering Alumni Awards were instituted in 1989 with the titles and honours that the College confers to their alumni for their outstanding work and contributions to their alma mater, their organisation, and society.

The awards include the Distinguished Alumni, Alumni Excellence, Outstanding Young Alumni, Alumni Rising Star, and the Team Excellence Awards.

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PhD Student Achievement at Singapore Scientific Conference

We are pleased to share that Song Jingwen, a PhD student supervised by Dr. Alexander Lin in NUS Department of the Built Environment, presented a poster and received an Honourable Mention in the Manufacturing category at the Singapore Scientific Conference (SSC), held under the theme

Best Presentation Award at the Leading Conference on Smart Buildings by our own DBE graduate Iqbal Shah and Dr. Ali Ghahramani

Best Presentation Award at the Leading Conference on Smart Buildings by our own DBE graduate Iqbal Shah and Dr. Ali Ghahramani. Their study demonstrates, for the first time, that the built-in ultrawide-band (UWB) hardware in smartphones can be effectively unlocked and paired with a digital-twin framework to achieve accurate indoor occupant localisation, enabling precise

SISV 2025 Gold Winners From DBE

Congratulations to Mr Tan Nur Shafik (MSc PM) and Miss Phua Hui Xin (BSc PFM) on their outstanding achievement and well-deserved SISV Gold medal. Their dedication, perseverance, and excellence have set a powerful example for their peers and the Built Environment community. May this milestone inspire them to reach even greater heights in their future