STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS & STUDENT LIFE
Terence Tan Jia Ren, fourth-year Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, awarded Spatial Design Award (SPADES Award) for Best Public Design (GOLD) at the recent Design Excellence Award (DEA) 2024
We are pleased to announce that Terence Tan Jia Ren, a fourth-year Bachelor of Arts in Architecture student, has been awarded the Spatial Design Award (SPADES Award) for Best Public Design (GOLD) at the recent Design Excellence Award (DEA) 2024. The event was organised by the Interior Design Confederation Singapore (IDCS). This year's competition saw a record number of entries, with the Public Design category being particularly competitive. Submissions were assessed by a distinguished jury panel of local and international design leaders.
Terence's submission, "The Way of the Dojo," was developed as part of his Design 6 Studio course under the guidance of Studio Leader, Professor Dr Joseph Lim.
Read more at: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/arch/news_and_events/news_ay2425_design_excellence_awards_020125/
Built Environment, PhD student, Hanmo Wang honoured with Best Paper Award at the 1st International Conference on Engineering Structures
PhD student, Hanmo Wang was honoured with the Best Paper Award for his paper titled "Physics-Informed Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Mechanical Responses in Hollow Concrete Structures with Clay-Filled Morphed Honeycomb Cavities" at the 1st International Conference on Engineering Structures held in Guangzhou, China.
Notably, the conference presents two distinct awards: the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award. The latter is exclusively for students, whereas the Best Paper Award sees a wider range of competitors, including senior researchers, and academic professionals. Hanmo won the Best Paper Award as a student, surpassing expectations by competing with many more experienced researchers. As the first author, Hanmo accepted the award on behalf of the Department of the Built Environment team, led by Dr Alexander Lin, alongside their industry partners from Arup Singapore and DP Engineers. The award was presented by Prof Jie Yang, the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Structures.
Dr Alexander Lin brought a group of students, including Hanmo, to participate in this conference, which was organised by the journal Engineering Structures (CiteScore=10.2 and ranked top 8% in Civil and Structural Engineering). The conference provided a valuable platform for sharing and discussing the latest advancements in the field.
Civil Engineering students win Bronze Medial at the Young Innovators Awards 2024
Civil Engineering students Ng Jun Liang Ben, Justin Adrian Halim, and Adler Chua Yu Cheng won the Bronze Medal in the Young Innovators Awards 2024, organised by the Singapore Concrete Institute. This award recognises young innovators who contribute to enhancing productivity in building or civil engineering practices. The team’s submission proposes harnessing 3D concrete printing for Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC). Ben is a PhD student working with Dr Du Hongjian and Professor Richard Liew, while Justin and Adler are undergraduate students engaged in Undergraduate Research Experience (UREx) and Final Year Project (FYP) work.
NUS ECE team clinches Best Design Award at the 2024 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)
The NUS ECE team, led by Associate Professor Aaron Danner and Associate Professor Jerald Yoo, clinched the prestigious Best Design Award at the 2024 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) in Hiroshima, Japan.
A special shoutout to PhD student Huang Yingna and her co-authors Tsai Chne-Wuen, Chen Jiaer, and Li Zhongqi for their groundbreaking research on PRIM-CAEFA, a revolutionary CMOS Ising machine tackling complex optimisation problems with unmatched efficiency. Their innovative design introduces a packet-based spin structure and adjustment-free annealing algorithm, setting a new standard for solving combinatorial optimisation problems!
Yingna also received the IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits Travel Grant 2024, recognising her exceptional contributions to the field.
For more information: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/news-detail/nus-research-group-led-by-associate-professor-jerald-yoo-win-best-design-award-at-ieee-asian-solid-state-circuits-conference-2024/
NUS ECE PhD students win the Best Student Paper Awards at the prestigious IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2024)
Congratulations to PhD students Zhang Jingyuan and Zheng Zhi for winning the Best Student Paper Awards at the prestigious IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2024) in Bali, Indonesia! Out of 638 submissions from 34 countries, only 5 papers were selected for this honour — and two came from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering!
Zhang Jingyuan’s paper: “A Fully-Integrated GaN Coupled-Line-Based Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier” introduces groundbreaking design principles for a high-performance amplifier using coupled-line technology.
Zheng Zhi’s paper: “Non-Contact Blood Pressure Estimation Based on Doppler Radar With Adaptive Filtering Technique” presents an innovative, non-contact blood pressure estimation method using K-band radar and adaptive filtering for enhanced accuracy.
For more information: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/news-detail/two-best-student-paper-awards-at-ieee-2024-asia-pacific-microwave-conference-apmc-2024/
First place win at the prestigious 2024 Huawei Antenna Innovation Cup for Professor Chen Zhining’s PhD student
Electrical Engineering PhD student Yang Danyu received the Maxwell Award Grand Prize, coming in first for antenna research, at the 2024 Huawei Antenna Innovation Cup (HAC). His research offers an innovative method to tackle the challenge of broadband port and radiation pattern decoupling, demonstrating an immense potential to enhance the performance of next-generation wireless communication systems. The HAC is a platform for aspiring researchers worldwide to showcase innovative solutions to real-world problems in advanced antenna design and application.
Read more here.
Ma Xinyin awarded Google PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to Ma Xinyin, PhD student, Electrical Engineering, for being awarded the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship! Her groundbreaking research is transforming the efficiency of deep learning models, including large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models. Notable innovations like LLM-Pruner and DeepCache are reshaping the AI landscape, making advanced technologies faster and more accessible.
For more information: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/news-detail/phd-student-ma-xinyin-awarded-prestigious-google-fellowship/