NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
Awards and Achievements
Student |
Year of Intake |
Awards / Achievements |
Year |
| Alexandra Ian Michell | Jan 2009 | Awarded the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2007/2008. | 2008 |
| Aswin Thomas Abraham | Jan 2009 | Best Poster Award - NGS Inaugural Symposium 2009. |
2009 |
| Bui Cong Tinh | Aug 2007 | Awarded a grant in "German Summer Academies" program of the German Academic Exchange Service, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and German Science Foudation to attend the 3rd International Summer School "Physics of Functional Micro and Nanostructures" in Hamburg, Germany. |
2009 |
| Chen Xiangyu | Aug 2008 | Won the Champion in VideOlympic'09 in Greece. The team won the "Most Welcome System" award in the VideOlympic at CIVR'09, Santorini, Greece. |
2009 |
| Chua Sui Huay, Charis | Aug 2006 | Best group (The Encounters) for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 |
| Daniel Dahlmeier | Aug 2008 | 1. School of Computing, NUS Research Achievement Award. |
2008, 2010, 2011 |
| 2. School of Computing, NUS Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award. | 2012 | ||
| 3. Association for Computational Linguistics Travel Award. | 2011 | ||
| 4. Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) Scholarship. | 2011 | ||
| Deepak Choudhury | Jan 2008 | Best Oral Presentation Award for the Biomedical Devices section at 4th East Asian Pacific Student Workshop on Nano-Biomedical Engineering. |
2010 |
| Fong Wee Teck | Jan 2005 | IEEE Singapore Information Technology Gold Medal and Book Prize (awarded to top student in B.Comp (Hons) - Computer Engineering). | 2010 |
| Huang Hua | Aug 2007 | Chua Toh Hua Memorial Gold Medal AY 2011/2012 for being the Best Doctor of Philosophy graduate with the most outstanding research work done in Life Sciences. | 2012 |
| Ivan Low Cherh Chiet | Aug 2008 | Awarded a scholarship by European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for a workshop on Mitochondria, Apoptosis and Cancer (MAC'09). |
2009 |
| Travel Award for Society of Free Radical Biology and Medicine (SFRBM) 18th Annual General Meeting. | 2011 | ||
| Ivana | Aug 2008 | Won the First Prize in Category B of Institute of Materials Research and Engineering Postgraduate Students Poster Competition, with her poster “Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of Band Alignment at Interface between Ni-InGaAs and In0.53Ga0.47As”. | 2011 |
| Jonathan Lee Houjin | Jan 2010 | Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellowship. |
2010 |
| Kang Jia | Aug 2008 | ECDO travel award 2009 |
2009 |
| Adeline Lam Runyi | Jan 2010 | Awarded 2nd prize for her poster presentation "The role of the cytoplasmic DNA sensor pathways in regulating the expression of Raet1 family NK receptor ligands" at the Infection and Immunity Conference 2011 held in Suzhou, China on 8 Dec 2011. | 2011 |
| Li Bingnan | Jan 2008 | Associate Editor / International Journal of Artificial Intelligence. |
2009 |
| Li Xue | Aug 2009 | Awarded the Young Researcher Award at the 14th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE), which was held from 21 - 24 Feb 2012. The award is given for her paper titled "Thin-film Composite Membranes and Formation Mechanism of Thin-film Layer on Hydrophilic Cellulose Acetate Propionate for Forward Osmosis Processes". | 2012 |
| Lim Sze Ter | Aug 2007 | Best Oral Paper Award. | 2008 |
| Liu Bing | Aug 2006 | 1. Runner-up of the NGS T-shirt Slogan Competition. His entry is "NGS - Nurturing Great Scientists". | |
| 2. First Prize Winner of the NGS Challenge 2007. His winning entry is "Honeybee -- an intriguing animal". | 2007 | ||
| Edwin Liu | Aug 2006 | Best presenter for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 |
| Loke Kok Leong Desmond | Aug 2008 | Won Silver in the Open Section of the Tan Kah Kee Yong Inventors' Award 2011. The title of his invention project is "Enabling Universal Memory through Nanostructure Engineering". | 2011 |
| Loo Eng Kiat Alvin | Aug 2007 | Selected to participate in the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates from June 26 to July 1, 2011 in Lindau (Germany). He is among the 550 most qualified Young Researchers to contribute to and share the scientific excellence of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. | 2011 |
| Low Kai Leng | Aug 2006 | Best essay for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 |
| Melissa Fullwood | Aug 2006 | Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship Award.  |
2013 |
| Regional winner in the "All Other Countries" category for the 2010 GE and Science Prize. Click here to read her winning essay "Genome-Wide Chromatin Loops Regulate Transcription.". | 2010 | ||
| Ming Zhaoyan | Jan 2007 | Won the "Elsvier App Challenge", organized as part of ACM SIGIR 2010 Conference in Geneva in July 2010 for her winning entry "Benchmarking web resources for implementation of research ideas". | 2010 |
| Ng Hwee Boon Grace | Jan 2008 | Won the Best Poster Award in the Water Convention 2011 held during the Singapore International Water Week. Their poster "Development of Living Color Transgenic Medaka for Biomonitoring Aquatic Contamination" exhibits originality and high technical quality. | 2011 |
| Ong Yi Ting | Jan 2011 | ARVO International Travel Grant. |
2012 |
| Ren Jie | Aug 2007 | 1. The work "Thermodynamic stability of small-world oscillator networks: A case study of proteins," published in Physical Review E 79, 051922 (2009), has been selected by Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, June 1, 2009, Volume 17, Issue 11. |
2009 |
| 2. Awarded a Santa Fe scholarship to participate in the Complex Systems School at Sante Fe Institute in New Mexico, USA, 2008. | 2008 | ||
| See Zhenwei Kelvin | Aug 2008 | Awarded 2nd prize for Poster presentation titled "Live Ratiometric Ca2+ Imaging in Motor Neurons and Glia in a Zebrafish Model for Spinal Muscular Atrophy" at the Singapore NeuroScience Association (SNA) Symposium 2012. |
2012 |
| Shailesh Kharkwal | Jan 2011 | Won the SPORE (Singapore Oxford Peking Research Enterprise) Scientific Challenge 2011 (SSC2011) Gold Award. This Challenge was conducted by NERI (NUS Environmental Research Institute). |
2011 |
| Shalin Mehta | Aug 2006 | 1. Best presenting group during ethics course GS5001 for presentation on "Image manipulation". |
2007 |
| 2. Shared the award for best class participation during the ethics course GS5001. | 2007 | ||
| 3. Best oral presentation - GPBE/NUS- Tohoku Graduate Student Conference in Bioengineering. | 2008 | ||
| 4. Best oral presentation - 1st NGS Symposium. | 2009 | ||
| 5. The Allen Research Award and the Colwin Endowed Summer Research Award to pursue collaborative research at Oldenbourg Lab, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Topic of research is "Elucidating quantitative behaviour of phase and birefringence imaging methods with accurate models and test targets.". | 2010 | ||
| Sun Wei | Aug 2006 | Best participant in class and best group (The Encounters) for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 |
| Tan Mei Hui | Aug 2011 | Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Asia), Finalist for Singapore. |
2011 |
| Tan Mei Xuan | Aug 2008 | IBN 5th Graduate Student Symposium, Best Presenter (1st Runner-up). |
2010 |
Bayer Young environmental Envoy (BYEE), Distinction Award. |
2010 | ||
IBN 6th Graduate Student Symposium, Best Presenter (Winner). |
2011 | ||
| Tan Mei Hui | Aug 2011 | Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (Asia), Finalist for Singapore. |
2011 |
| N H M Wishva B H | Aug 2006 | Best presenter for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 |
| Wu Zhaoxuan | Best group (The Encounters) for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 | |
| Zhang Jing | Aug 2006 | Her research article "Local Inflammation Induces Complement Crosstalk Which Amplifies the Antimicrobial Response" is published in PLOS Pathogens Journal in January 2009. | 2009 |
| Zhang Shaojie | Aug 2008 | 2010 SSIRI Best paper Award. | 2010 |
| Zhang Sui | Aug 2008 | Student Travel Award. | 2011 |
| Zhao Pan | Aug 2006 | 1. Runner-up of the NGS T-shirt Slogan Competition. Her entry is "We dare be all, because we INTEGRATE ". | |
| 2. Runner up of the NGS Challenge 2007. Her winning entry is "Wonders from Outer Space". | 2007 | ||
| 3. Best group (The Encounters) for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 | ||
| Zheng Yantao | Jan 2006 | 1. Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award. | 2008 |
| 2. IBM Waston Emerging Multimedia Leaders 2008. | 2008 | ||
| 3. Microsoft Research Fellowship 2008. | 2008 | ||
| 4. Best student paper award in ACM Conference of Multimedia Modeling 2008. | 2008 | ||
| 5. Best group (The Encounters) for GS5002 Spring 07. | 2007 | ||
| Zhu Guimei | Aug 2008 | Awarded scholarship to participate in the Complex Systems School at Sante Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA from 7 Jun to 4 Jul 2009. |
2009 |
| Zhu Kening | Jun 2009 | C4C - Como for Children Design Competion. |
2009 |
