NUS Workshop on Contemporary Research in Computer Science and Information Systems

NUS School of Computing is organizing the NUS Workshop on Contemporary Research in Computer Science and Information Systems from 26 to 28 January 2016. This three-day workshop provides a fertile ground for research discussions, collaborations and thought sharing among young as well as mature researchers from NUS and participating universities.

Full-time students who are at least in the third year of their Bachelor’s degree, and Master’s degree students are welcome to put in their applications for this workshop (Note that students studying in Malaysian Universities could apply as well). We offer scholarships (including accommodation and subsidized airfare) to all selected students, and interested students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Information about the workshop and the application details can be found here: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/graduates/rschworkshop.html. A copy of the flyer is also attached.

The application deadline is 20 November 2015.

The programme for the research workshop includes the following contemporary computing topics:

           Day 1:         Welcome/ Introduction of CS and IS Research Topics

Selected topics on Multimedia and Wearable Computing

           Day 2:         Selected topics on Programming Languages and Security

                                Selected topics on Data Analytics and Networked Systems

           Day 3:         Selected topics on IT Innovation and Organization

Selected topics on Social Computing and Healthcare Information Systems

If you have any queries, please feel free to email us at socwksp@comp.nus.edu.sg.

Google Anita Borg Scholar Asia Pacific Retreat @ Google Shanghai

I guess all Google Anita Borg scholars will agree with me that the best part of getting the Google Anita Borg scholarship is the all-expenses paid retreat. During the retreat, I get to meet scholars studying in university of different countries within the Asia Pacific region, including Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, Australia, Korean and Japan. It is quite surprising for my that the scholars from the southeast asia region include only students studying in Singapore and Malaysia. I guess it is because many female students studying in the southeast asia region do not know about the Google Anita Borg scholarship. If you are a female students studying computer science or information technology in the southeast asia region, please don't hesitate to apply! More information about the Google Anita Borg scholarship is available at this link.

Picture of all recipients of Google Anita Borg APAC 2015

Most activities for the retreat are held in at the Google Shanghai office

The night view from the river cruise was breathtaking

Janice and I taking selfies together with funny wigs

Yiqun, Cheryl (Googler) and I

I am so proud of the cute robot that my team built during the hackathon

During the retreat, we get to know about some of the exciting on-going projects in Google. We also had resume review, resume workshop and mock interview that help in improving our career search skills. I have included some photos taken during the river cruise over the beautiful HuangPu River (黄浦江)). My favourite part of the retreat is the robot hackathon where we get to build a robot that pushes another robot to the edge of a round table. Although my team loses in the one-to-one robot fighting competition, we feel very happy when our cute baby robot actually manage to push all robots out of the table during the all-robots-fighting competition (i.e., the free fight)! If you are interested in how our cute robot fight in the all-robots-fighting competition,  you should check out the video below!

Free fight
Posted by Xiaopeng Yang on Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Disclaimer: No robot is harm during the robot hackathon.  :-)