SMU President Professor Arnoud De Meyer chaired a panel, titled "Turning Insights into Innovation", at this year's Global Young Scientists Summit. The panel, which includes Nobel Laureates Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry, 2004) and Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser (2012), noted that researchers will achieve the most success by working on questions that excite them intellectually, rather than by limiting themselves to problems with immediate practical applications.