Electrical and Computer Engineering
Celebrating Our ECE Community: Highlights of 2025
Dear ECE Community,
As 2025 draws to a close, I am filled with gratitude and pride as I reflect on the achievements of our vibrant ECE community. Across research, student life, competitions, and community engagement, this year’s milestones have exemplified the passion, resilience, and talent that define our department.
The year has been marked by meaningful achievements, inspiring moments, and a strong sense of togetherness. Through our teaching, research, and student life initiatives, ECE has continued to thrive—not only as a department at the forefront of technological innovation, but also as a community that places people at the heart of what we do.
Our students have continued to shine beyond the classroom, earning top honours in external competitions and developing innovative solutions across diverse domains. Their accomplishments reflect the spirit of curiosity, creativity, and excellence that we strive to cultivate in ECE.
We also celebrate the outstanding contributions of our faculty and researchers, whose work continues to advance cutting-edge research in areas such as artificial intelligence, communications, electronics, robotics, and sustainable technologies. Their dedication to teaching, mentorship, and research excellence plays a vital role in shaping our students and strengthening ECE’s standing both locally and internationally.
None of this would be possible without the strong collaboration across our community. I would like to thank our academic and administrative staff for your steadfast support, leadership, and commitment. To our students, your drive, resilience, and enthusiasm have made this a truly remarkable year.
On behalf of the department, I wish you a restful holiday season filled with joy and good health. Let us look ahead to the new year with renewed optimism and purpose.
Warm regards,
Prof Biplab Sikdar
Head of Department (NUS ECE)
Highlights of 2025
Launch of the Inaugural ECE Project Showcase – ExCEllence
2025 marked the successful debut of ExCEllence, the ECE Project Showcase, featuring over 40 student-led capstone and research projects. The event brought together students, faculty, alumni, and industry partners, and showcased innovative solutions across areas such as smart health, robotics, energy, and machine learning—reinforcing ECE’s strong emphasis on experiential learning and real-world impact.
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 List
We are thrilled to celebrate our faculty members who have been named to the prestigious 2025 Highly Cited Researchers™ list, recognising them among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Curated annually by Clarivate, this list honours exceptional researchers who are advancing the frontiers of knowledge and innovation globally.
Dr Wang Xinchao received Young Scientist Award at President’s Science and Technology Awards 2025
Assistant Professor Wang Xinchao was recognised for his outstanding contributions to the development of efficient methods for training compact artificial intelligence models that achieve high performance even under limited computational and data resources.
CEG Student won the Hult Prize
Chong Kai Jie, a Year 2 Computer Engineering student and co-founder of Stick’Em, developed an affordable chopstick-based robotics kit to teach children STEAM skills. The project recently won the Hult Prize—often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for students”—securing US$1 million in funding to scale production and expand globally.
