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NUS ECE Team Wins Best Poster Award at IEEE CEC 2025 for Physics-Inspired Optimization Research
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has been awarded the Best Poster Award at the prestigious IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2025), held from June 8–12 in Hangzhou, China. The event, organized by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, brought together over 500 participants from 34
Barbara Chong (CEG Final Year student) and her Teammates for Earning a Green Lane to the $10K VIP Grant at the NUS Enterprise Pitch Night
Congratulations to Barbara Chong (CEG Final Year student) and her teammates (Deren Cheng and Joel Lo) for earning a Green Lane to the $10K VIP Grant at the NUS Enterprise Pitch Night Their project, Nautilus Technology, aims to combat illegal maritime activity using AI, satellite data, and open-source intelligence — starting with Asia’s most vulnerable
Dylan Chia (CEG Final Year student) Clinched 2nd Place at the AI Agent Hackathon Organized by The Generative Beings!
Congratulations to Dylan Chia (CEG Final Year student) for clinching 2nd place at the AI Agent Hackathon organized by The Generative Beings! Dylan Chia, CEG Final Year student, competed solo and developed PadiChat, an AI-powered agent designed to help Southeast Asian farmers improve their crop yields by answering farming-related questions. Built using LangChain and LangGraph,
Showcasing Innovation and Talent: Highlights from ExCEllence (ECE Project Showcase 2025)
ExCEllence (ECE Project Showcase 2025), held on 16 April 2025 at the NUS EA Atrium, marked a major milestone for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Designed to spotlight the ingenuity, technical proficiency, and creativity of our students, the event featured more than 40 diverse student-led projects, ranging from first-year undergraduate coursework to
PhD Student Xue Junyuan Wins Student Best Poster Award at SIRC 2025
Mr. Xue Junyuan, a PhD student and recipient of the NGS (ISEP) scholarship, has won the Student Best Poster Award at the Singapore Intelligence, Robotics, and Control Symposium 2025 (SIRC 2025). His research is supervised by Professor Tong Heng Lee and Adjunct Assistant Professor Wenyu Liang from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE),
Introduction to PCB Design workshop by NUS IEEE-HKN’s Talent Relay Initiative
On 12 February 2025, the NUS IEEE-HKN Chapter proudly held the second installment of its Talent Relay Initiative with an insightful Introduction to PCB Design workshop. This initiative continues to provide a dynamic platform for knowledge sharing, while offering IEEE-HKN members opportunities to develop leadership, communication, and teaching skills. This time, the workshop was led
Research Team from NUS ECE Wins the Best Paper Award at IEEE EDTM 2025
A research team from the National University of Singapore, led by Associate Professor Gong Xiao from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the Best Paper Award at the 9th IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM 2025), held from March 9th to 12th, 2025, in Hong Kong, China. The award was
Prof Yang Hyunsoo Awarded 2025 Mid-Career Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society & Elected as a Fellow of AAIA
Professor Yang Hyunsoo received the 2025 Mid-Career Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society. The award is given annually to a single individual in the mid-stages of their career for making outstanding research and technological contributions to the field of magnetism. The IEEE Magnetics Society is the largest international professional organization of scientists and engineers working
NUS CEG Students Won 1st place in the SONDRA Challenge 2025
A team consisting of NUS Computer Engineering students (Lee Xian Hui and Chan Sheng Bin), NUS Chemical Engineering student (Jonas Low), alongside members from SIT and NTU, won 1st place in the SONDRA Challenge 2025 with their project, DroneGuard—a real-time drone detection system using Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and Edge AI. The team’s winning project, DroneGuard, presents
