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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science or UROPS allows a student the opportunity to engage in independent learning and research. It also affords a student the chance to delve into topics that may not be present in the regular curriculum. The programme allows students to engage actively in research, discussions, intellectual communications and other creative activities. The experience gained upon completion of a project would help students in the preparation for future careers and postgraduate training. For more information on the general structure and related course codes, visit Science UROPS page.
The Faculty of Science also offers exchange students from selected partner universities the opportunity to participate in Summer UROPS and Summer URAPS.
This consists of a systematic study and elaboration of the topic of the UROPS Project. The report shall be typed on A4 size paper and shall include a title page.
The student is required to give an oral presentation on the work done. The oral presentation shall last between 30 to 45 minutes.
This will take place soon after the oral presentation. The purpose of the interview is to allow the supervisor to further probe the student’s understanding of the material presented in the project. The interview shall last about 30 minutes.
Timelines in italic are Faculty recommendations, for reference.
Activity |
UROPS |
Summer UROPS/URAPS |
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Semester 1 intake |
Semester 2 intake |
Special Term intake |
Only Special Term intake |
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Project and module application |
Early June – Mid July (See Faculty schedule for details) |
Late November – Late December (See Faculty schedule for details) |
Early December – Early February (for Exchange students) Late March – Early April (for NUS students) (See Faculty schedule for details) |
Mid-February (See Faculty schedule for details) |
Project work begins |
Week 1, Semester 1 |
Week 1, Semester 2 |
Day 1, Special Term 1 |
Day 1, Special Term 1 |
Extension of 4MC UROPS to 8 MC UROPS |
Apply by end of Term Break, Semester 1 (See Faculty schedule for details) |
Apply by end of Term Break, Semester 2 (See Faculty schedule for details) |
Not allowed |
NA |
Project thesis submission (see Note 2) |
Before Reading Week By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 12 in same semester |
Before Reading Week By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 12 in same semester |
By the last week of Special Term Part 2 By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 4, Special Term 2 |
Friday of Week 8, Semester 1 of following academic year By 4.30pm, Friday of Week 8, Semester 1 (see Note 2 & 3) |
Evaluation of project |
Week 13 |
Week 13 |
Week 5, Special Term 2 |
Week 9, Semester 1 Examiner to submit completed grading forms before Wednesday of Week 10, Semester 1 |
Oral presentation & interview |
Complete by Friday of Week 13 in same semester Examiner to submit completed grading forms after interview and before Wednesday of Reading Week |
Complete by Friday of Week 13 in same semester Examiner to submit completed grading forms after interview and before Wednesday of Reading Week |
Complete by Friday of Week 5, Special Term 2 Examiner to submit completed grading forms after interview and before Wednesday of Week 6, Special Term 2 |
Complete by Friday of Week 6, Special Term 2 (students must leave Singapore thereafter) Complete by Friday of Week 6, Special Term 2 (see Note 3) |
Note 1:
If application for extension is approved, students will follow the submission timeline in the following semester:
Note 2:
Students are required to submit:
Note 3:
Summer UROPS requires students to give oral presentation and interview before project submission (reverse of regular UROPS) as students are given more time to complete thesis writing after leaving Singapore.
The list of project titles for the past three academic years are for reference purpose only.
Updated on 14 June 2024
AY | Student | Project Title | Supervisor |
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2021/2022 | ANG MING LIANG | Inverse Problems with Generative Models | Jonathan Mark Scarlett |
2021/2022 | AKSHAI VENGAT | Advanced machine learning theory and applications | Ghosh, Subhroshekhar |
2021/2022 | CHENG YUI TO | Algebraic geometry over finite fields | Chin Chee Whye |
2021/2022 | CHONG JING QUAN | Non-abelian Harmonic Analysis | Zhang Lei |
2021/2022 | CHOW BOON WEI | Identities on once punctured hyperbolic tori | Tan Ser Peow |
2021/2022 | DICK JESSEN WILLIAM | Introduction to Deep Learning | Zhang Lei |
2021/2022 | FANG XINYU | Introduction to Arithmetic Geometry | Zhang Lei |
2021/2022 | IVAN TAN YONG HONG | Finite element method for Stokes-type equations | Cai Zhenning |
2021/2022 | MICHAEL TAKAAKI LEONG | Basic Concepts in Recursion Theory | Yang Yue |
2021/2022 | TENG YU-HSIANG | Theory of Harmonic Functions | Yu Hui |
2021/2022 | WANG YIDING | Kernel methods for machine learning | Tong Xin |
2021/2022 | XU YUNFEI | Numerical simulation for high-dimensional hyperbolic equations on simplices | Cai Zhenning |
2021/2022 | YAO HUAIZHEN | Geometry of plane curves | Zhang De-QI |
2021/2022 | YIP JUNG HON | Colorings and minors: progress towards hadwiger’s Conjecture | Huang Hao |
2021/2022 | ZHANG LIU | p-Wasserstein Distance between High-dimensional Point Clouds via Persistent Homology | Han Fei |
2021/2022 | KONG ZUXIANG | The Geometry of Discrete Groups | Dinh Tien Cuong |
2021/2022 | YUUKA FOO XIAO YING | A Mathematical Model of Cetacean Bycatch | Brett Mcinnes |
2021/2022 | NIXON WIDJAJA | Monte Carlo methods and Applications to Financial Engineering | Ren Weiqing |
2021/2022 | TIMOTHY WAN KAI YANG | Category Theory | Tan Kai Meng |
2022/2023 | CHEN YANYU | Complexity measures of Boolean function | Huang Hao |
2022/2023 | LIU YILIU | Algebraic schemes – an introduction | Zhang De-QI |
2022/2023 | PAN YUTING | Probabilistic algorithms for data science | Ghosh, Subhroshekhar |
2022/2023 | PAN JINGBIN | Analysis and its applications | Ghosh, Subhroshekhar |
2022/2023 | SPOUNCER LUCY ELIZABETH | Homological/topological exploration of problems in combinatorics and discrete geometry | Hao Huang |
2022/2023 | AGAMJYOT SINGH CHADHA | Efficient algorithms for solving primal block-angular problems | Lam Xin Yee |
2022/2023 | ZHAI JUN | Gauss quadratic sums | Loke Hung Yean |
2022/2023 | FANG XINYU | Probability and Statistics fior Random Groups in Number Theory | Gan Wee Teck |
2022/2023 | SRIVATHSAN AMRUTH | Distance Weighted Discrimination | Lam Xin Yee |
2022/2023 | LI BAISHI | Klainerman-Sobolev’s inequality and its application | An Xinliang |
2022/2023 | FATHIMA RAIZA RIFKY | Representation of Wely Groups | Zhang Lei |
2022/2023 | CHRISTOPHER TAN RUI YANG | Selected topics from Automata Theory and its Applications | Frank Stephan |
2022/2023 | NGUYEN ANH DUC | Discrete optimal transport and related problems | Toh Kim Chuan |
2022/2023 | TAN YONG ANN | On the Hoffman-Singleton Theorem and related problems | Hao Huang |
2022/2023 | WEN FEIYANG | Singular integral theory | An Xinliang |
2022/2023 | SUN HAOCHENG | Representations of p-adic groups | Zhang Lei |
2022/2023 | QI ZHOU | Modeling and simulation for droplets in Bose-Einstein condensate | Bao Weizhu |
2022/2023 | LI LINYI | Advanced statistical learning | Tong Xin |
2022/2023 | WONG ZHI-YUAN | Investigating post-earning announcement drift | Chen Kan |
2022/2023 | LIU ANZONG | Financial time series | Tong Xin |
2022/2023 | ZHANG MINGLANG | Analysis of Financial Time Series | Ren Weiqing |
2022/2023 | CHEN YIMING | Mathematical models of synchronization phenomena | Yao Yao |
2022/2023 | FENG QINGYANG | Dynamical systems on differentiable manifolds | Dinh Tien Cuong |
2022/2023 | ISAAC LAI YIN CHUNG | Generalized Inverses and Optimization | Wertz, Timothy Michael |
2022/2023 | KIM HEESAHNG | Stone spaces and profinite spaces | Goh Jun Le |
2022/2023 | AY CAN | Inverse problems | Tong Xin |
2023/2024 | LIU YILIU | Cohomology theory in Algebraic Geometry | De-Qi Zhang |
2023/2024 | EOM IKHOON | Brownian Motion and Related Topics | Sun Rongfeng |
2023/2024 | QI FULIN | The Calderon-Zygmund theorem and its generalization | An Xinliang |
2023/2024 | KHOR JUN WEI | Uniformly distributed sequences of real numbers | Goh Jun Le |
2023/2024 | CHENG YUI TO | Extremal problems on substructure enumeration | Hao Huang |
2023/2024 | AGRAWAL NAMAN | Mathematical topics in deep learning | Ghosh, Subhroshekhar |
2023/2024 | TAO XINRAN | Analysis of Financial Time Series | Ren Weiqing |
2023/2024 | CHAOVEERAPRASIT CHAYAPOL | Algebras and Representation Theory | Tan Kai Meng |
2023/2024 | NGUYEN ANH DUC | Robust optimization and related problems | Melvyn Sim |
2023/2024 | WANG JUNHUAI | Stochastic optimization | Tong Xin |
2023/2024 | GOH JUN KIAT, EUGENE | Introduction to Calculus of variations and their applications. | Chua Seng Kee |
2023/2024 | JAX LEE LE SHENG | VaR estimation with AI-generated financial time-series | Chen Kan |
2023/2024 | Xu Xuezhou | Reinforcement learning for robotics | Tong Xin |
2023/2024 | ZONGMIN YU | Strichartz estimates for wave equation | An Xinliang |
2023/2024 | KONG ZUXIANG | Coxeter groups | Zhang Tengren |
2023/2024 | SHU LUOANDI | Brownian motion and its connections to PDEs | Yao Yao |
2023/2024 | BINLUO WEIYI | Analysis of Financial Time Series | Ren Weiqing |
2023/2024 | FENG QINGYANG | Stochastic differential equation and its applications | Yao Yao |
2023/2024 | WONG PUI LUN | Monte Carlo methods and Applications to Financial Engineering | Ren Weiqing |
2023/2024 | JING XIAOYANG | Optimization theory | Tong Xin |
2023/2024 | CLARENCE CHEW XUAN DA | Turan-type problems in connection with additive combinatorics | Hao Huang |
2023/2024 | SEOW MAO YU | Examining fluctuations in stock prices through the Hurst exponent | Chen Kan |
2023/2024 | HUANG YUQI | Multi-Armed Bandits | Tan Yan Fu, Vincent |
2023/2024 | NG JING RUI | The 2-fold branched cover of the 3-sphere along a pretzel knot | Wong Yan Loi |
2023/2024 | LIU XINYU | Finding critical points in nonlinear problems. | Leung Man Chun |
2023/2024 | WANG ZIXUAN | Nonlocal ODE | Chua Seng Kee |
2023/2024 | XIE YUBIN | A parabolic Faber-Krahn inequality via variational method | An Xinliang |
2023/2024 | LIM LI XIANG | Advanced problem solving in Undergrad Mathematics | Ghosh, Subhroshekhar |