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A team of NUS students has won Second Prize at the Intel Cup 2026 Undergraduate Embedded System Design Competition, held in Shanghai in July 2026, for their project EdgeSight, an on-device visual-language assistant designed to support visually impaired users. The team comprises Ms. Badrinath Sandhya (Year 3, Electrical Engineering), Mr. Chan Zun Mun Terence (Year 4, Computer Engineering), and Ms. Hsu Myat Noe (Year 3, Computer Science). The project was supervised by Dr Rajesh Panicker from the NUS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

Research by ECE PhD student Mr. Shi Quan, under the supervision of Professor Biplab Sikdar, has received a Distinguished Paper Award at the 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’26) for the paper “LPG: Raise Your Location Privacy Game in Direct-to-Cell LEO Satellite Networks.”

An ECE research team comprising Shao Yurui, Assoc Prof Arthur Tay, Assoc Prof Heng Chun Huat and Dr Yen Shih-Cheng has received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2026) for their paper, “Learning Temporal Dependencies of Gait Cycles for Freezing of Gait Prediction.”