Current Students
Being an ISEP Scholar
ISEP CARES
ISEP PREPARES
ISEP PREPARES
To equip students with appropriate skills to perform cutting edge interdisciplinary research ethically. All graduate researchers in NUS will have to complete NG5001 and NG5002.
- 2 ISEP Courses (4 Units)
- Academic Communication for Graduate Researchers (NG5001) (4 Units)
- Research Ethics for Graduate Researchers (NG5002) (2 Units)
- Courses recommended by host department

ISEP DARES
Achievements of our Students
- 2025
- 2024
- 2022-2023
Xue Junyuan
Thesis Advisor: Lee Tong Heng
Best Poster Award at the Singapore Intelligence, Robotics, and Control Symposium
Cai Yufan
Thesis Advisor: Dong Jinsong
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
Automated Program Refinement with Code Large Language Models
Zhang Xianhe
Thesis Advisor: Liu Bin
Advanced Functional Materials
Yue Yifan
Thesis Advisor: Liu Bin
Advanced Functional Materials
Zheng Chunqi
Thesis Advisor: Qiu Chengwei
Nature Communications
Zhang Shaoshi
Thesis Advisor: Thomas Yeo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Huang Yuwei
Thesis Advisor: Zhang Rui
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Passive reflection codebook design for IRS-integrated access point
Lim Cheng Kai
Thesis Advisor: Poh Chueh Loo
Winner of the Chua Toh Hua Memorial Gold Medal
Nature Communications
A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
Xu Guofang
Thesis Advisor: He Jianzhong
Winner of the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best PhD Thesis
Thesis title: A Comprehensive Study on Microbial Reductive Dehalogenation in Sewage Sludge
Huang Zixuan
Thesis Advisor: Zhang Rui
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Tan Hui Ru
Thesis Advisor: Zhou Weibiao
Food Chemistry
Shen Xudong
Thesis Advisor: Mohan Kankahalli
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Fair Representation: Guaranteeing Approximate Multiple Group Fairness for Unknown Tasks
Zhang Xiaoxue
Thesis Advisor: Lee Tong Heng
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Looking for a suitable ISEP Supervisor for your PhD Research?
Ready to Graduate?
Candidate has to log in to myEduRec (navigate to Academics > Graduate Research > Submit Thesis) once the thesis is ready for submission.
The guide for the online submission is available at https://myportal.nus.edu.sg/studentportal/eservices/all/myedurec.html under “Graduate Research” -> "Guide to Submit Thesis Online"

