The 28th SoC Term Project Showcase

APR
2026
Together, as one community… "We Build. We Break. We Innovate. We Repeat."
Total Registrations: 1000
Description

The School of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS) is one of the largest event, similar to Trade shows, aims to bring together and present selected student projects/products in the School of Computing (SoC) to facilitate independent peer learning, entrepreneurship and effective employment with modern flipped career-fair approach. In addition, STePS facilitates better assessment model through multi-party assessment of course projects. It's a festive yet serious class showcase, in which students present their projects in all aspects of computer science and information systems to the respective Faculty, Industry guests, Government agencies, Sponsors and Investors for grading, to connect with potential employers and to seek  opportunities for further development of their work through collaboration with Industry and Investors.
Together, as the STePS community…"We Build. We Break. We Innovate. We Repeat."      
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@STePS_NUS  
EVENT MASTER LAYOUT:  https://bit.ly/steps28-layout  
EVENT PROGRAMME: https://bit.ly/STePS28programme  
VOTING ASSIGNEMNT:  
Course/Track Assignment for Voting is given below, it is based on First letter of your Surname. You are welcome to vote for more than 2 courses/tracks assigned below.
A to F: CS4240, CS4248
G to L: CP3108, CS5224, IS4151/5451
M to S: CS3247, IS5126, MComp
T to Z: IT5007, CS3217, FYP-IP
WINNERS of The 28th STEPS: 
Congratulations to the winning teams, and thank you to all participants for contributing to the spirit of creativity and collaboration!
Innovative Open-Source Excellence Award:
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the Innovative Open-Source Excellence Award at the 27th SoC Term Project Showcase!
Winner of this Grand Prize:
Project:  Shared by two projects
**Winner (Shared)** CP3108 -12 : Adding Python to Source Academy, CHIA MENG JIT, MALANI AARAV SAJEEL
**Winner (Shared)** FYP-IP-09 : Pytorch in Source Academy, Vee Hua Zhi

Course/Track:  
# CP3108 : Source Academy Improvements & 
# FYP: Final Year Projects and Independent/Personal Projects
This special award was introduced at the 25th edition of the SoC Term Project Showcase, celebrating and promoting open-source culture. The Innovative Open-Source Project Award will evolve into a comprehensive learning program designed to foster open-source innovation and entrepreneurship among our young developers.
Video and Marketing Excellence Award :
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the Video and Marketing Excellence Award at the 27th SoC Term Project Showcase!
Winner of this Grand Prize:
Project:  
**Winner** CS4240-03: VR Handbook: Stage-Based Hand Interaction in VR, HO PEI LING, LIM RUI TING VALENCIA, LOH SHI JIE ELAINE, SOH ZHENG YANG MARCUS, TAN JING NI SHIRLEY, YAP XUAN XUAN. 
Course/Track:  
# CS4240 Interaction Design for Virtual and Augmented Reality  

This special award was introduced to mark the 25th edition of the SoC Term Project Showcase, celebrating and promoting marketing efforts.  
Best Project Awards for TRACKS:

# CP3108 Independent Work (Chair: A/Prof. Martin Henz, Dr. Boyd Anderson and Dr. Sanka Rasnayaka)
**Best Project - Platinum (CP3108-3)** - CSE Environment Diagrams

**Best Project - Gold (CP3108-11)** - Chatbots for Source Academy

**Best Project - Gold (CP3108-12)** - Adding Python to Source Academy

**Best Project - Silver (CP3108-1)** - Source Academy Game Update: The Era of Explorers ----- Skip Button and Mode Integration

# CS3217 Software Engineering on Modern Application Platforms (Chair: Dr. Leong Wai Kay)
**Honorable Mention (CS3217-2)** - Soulless Knight: A dungeon crawler game

**Honorable Mention (CS3217-1)** - RossyCroad

**Honorable Mention (CS3217-3)** - MetroJuicePaak: Your Pocket Production Studio

# CS3247 Game Development (Chair: A/Prof. Bhojan Anand)
**Best Project - Platinum (CS3247-11)** - Yarn

**Best Project - Gold (CS3247-3)** - Shift Happens

**Best Project - Silver (CS3247-7)** - Any Last Words

# CS4240 Interaction Design for Virtual and Augmented Reality (Chair: A/Prof. Bhojan Anand)
**Best Project - Platinum (CS4240-3)** - VR Handbook: Stage-Based Hand Interaction in VR

**Best Project - Gold (CS4240-2)** - Memora: Communicating Memory Across Real and Virtual Worlds

# CS4248 Natural Language Processing (Chair: A/Prof. Kan Min-Yen, Dr. Christian Von Der Weth)
**Best Project - Platinum (CS4248-30)** - Beyond the Joke: Unmasking Hateful Memes with CARA

**Best Project - Gold (CS4248-10)** - Improving Text-to-Table Generation with Prompting and Retrieval

**Best Project - Silver (CS4248-38)** - LLM Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning for Modern AI

# CS5224 Cloud Computing (Chair: A/Prof. Anandha Gopalan)
**Best Project - Platinum (CS5224-3)** - Inspira

# FYP-IP Final Year Project and Independent Project (Chair: Dr. Prabhu NATARAJAN)
**Best Project - Platinum (FYP-IP-2)** - DGLight: DQN-Guided GRPO Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Traffic Signal Control

**Best Project - Gold (FYP-IP-6)** - Elephant Reader: Improving learning processes for learners with Dyslexia

**Best Project - Silver (FYP-IP-9)** - PyTorch in Source Academy

# IS5126 Hands-on with Applied Analytics (Chair: Dr. Prakash Chandra Sukhwal)
**Honorable Mention (IS5126-2)** - MakanMetrics

**Honorable Mention (IS5126-3)** - SONAR (Supply-chain Optimization and Network Analysis for Resilience)

**Honorable Mention (IS5126-1)** - Twit‑Nalytics: A viral tweet predictor

# IT5007 Software Engineering on Application Architecture (Chair: Dr. Prasanna Karthik Vairam)
**Best Project - Platinum (IT5007-5)** - skillsPulse

**Best Project - Gold (IT5007-6)** - CosmicVault

# MComp MComp Thesis (Chair: Dr. Prasanna Karthik Vairam)
**Best Project - Platinum (MComp-2)** - A Context-Aware Triage Framework for High-Fidelity Vulnerability Management in Automotive Embedded System


  