Graduate student awards
Every year, the achievements and contributions of our graduate students are recognised at the Graduate Student Townhall in the form of various student awards presented.
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2024 student award winners
At the Graduate Student Townhall held on 24 July 2024, the following achievements and contributions by our graduate students were recognised.
Outstanding Thesis Award (Year 2021)
- Dr Guo Zhijiang (ISTD) – Thesis Title: Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Processing
- Dr Ludovica Tomarchio (ASD) – Thesis Title: Exploring the relationship between social media and art venues in Singapore
- Dr Nguyen Tan Thai Hung (ESD) – Thesis Title: On the Value of Paleo-Reconstructed Data: Understanding Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability and Its Implications to Water Resources Management
Outstanding Thesis Award (Year 2022)
- Dr Cheuk Kin Wai (ISTD) – Thesis Title: From Supervised to Unsupervised and Single to Multi-Instrument Automatic Music Transcription
- Dr John Chan You En (EPD) – Thesis Title: Structural Colour Prints Encoded with Rotation and Observation Angle-Dependent Information
- Dr Xu Xiansong (SMT) – Thesis Title: Typicality In Nonequilibrium Quantum Spin Systems

Outstanding Thesis Award (Year 2023)
- Dr Hong Shu (ESD) – Thesis Title: Game-Theoretic Analysis of Privacy Preservation in Networked Systems
- Dr Lai Weijia Joel (SMT) – Thesis Title: Brownian ratchet-inspired phenomena in Complex Systems: Quantum and Sociodynamical Parrondo’s paradox
- Dr Matheus Eduardo Garbelini (ISTD) – Thesis Title: Directed Stateful Fuzzing of Wireless Protocols

Graduate Student Service Award
- Merna Alzurikat
- Naresh Kumar Thanigaivel
- Praveen Govindarajan
- Carina Cecilia Carrasco Camara


3MT People’s Choice Award Winner
- Simon Erick Wredh (PhD/EPD)