Awards & Achievements
2025 Test of Time Award
at the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2025) for the paper, “Detecting product review spammers using rating behaviors”.
The Test of Time Award is given for CIKM papers published at least ten years ago, and that have had an important and sustained impact on the research community. Each year, only 1 or 2 papers are selected for the award.
at the inaugural SMU Alumni Awards 2025 on 12 November 2025 at SMU Hall, with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam as Guest of Honour.
Launched in celebration of SMU’s Silver Jubilee, the SMU Alumni Awards marked the University’s highest recognition of alumni achievement. To be conferred every five years, the Awards honour SMU alumni and associate alumni who have distinguished themselves through professional excellence, innovation, and service to society.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, “Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair”.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished papers are given to at most 10% of the papers accepted at an ACM SIGSOFT-sponsored conference.
2025 Google PhD Fellowship
from Google, in the Quantum Computing category.
His research interests include Data Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction.
Finalist for Best Paper Competition - Applied Track
at the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics (DMDA) Workshop, for the paper, “Formulating Optimization Programs with Self-Improving LLM Experience Library”.
2025 Google Academic Research Awards
for the research proposal, “Safeguarding Young Adults From “Crypto Influencer” Investment Scam” from Google LLC, with the 'Trust, Safety, Security, and Privacy Research Award', via the 'Google Academic Research Awards' program.
SCIS Outstanding Instructor Award for AY 2024/25
from SMU School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS).
Our instructors play an important role in our undergraduate and MITB education. They complement our faculty, by bringing industry-based software technology skills and experience to our course designs, case studies, labs and projects.
The SCIS Outstanding Instructor Award is created to recognize excellence among our instructors.
at the 2025 Sustainability Impact Awards, organised by The Business Times and UOB.
SMU alumnus Jeremy Lee received the award for advancing sustainable household solutions and cutting single-use plastics.
SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients
from SMU, with the Centre for Teaching Excellence.
The SMU Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the significance of teaching as a complex and multi-faceted profession. These university-level awards honour faculty members for their holistic contributions to peer development, student development, innovative instructional approaches, effective pedagogical practices and course design. SMU is also committed to adopting processes that promote gender equity in the recognition of teaching excellence.
SMU Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award 2025 (Capabilities Pillar) Winner
from the SMU College of Integrative Studies (CIS).
SMU CIS which oversees the SMU Core Curriculum, has established these awards to recognise outstanding faculty members and adjunct instructors who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and a strong commitment to student learning within the Core Curriculum. Each academic year, awardees are selected for each of the three pillars of the Core Curriculum - Capabilities, Communities and Civilisations. Recipients of three consecutive teaching awards are inducted in the Hall of Fame.
at the Sparks x Build for Good (BFG) Community Hackathon, for their project, LetterKey.
at the Sparks x Build for Good (BFG) Community Hackathon, for their project, SeniorSync.
2025 Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) List Honourees
Organised by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), in partnership with SG Women in Tech and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
The list recognises and celebrates women based in Singapore who have been inspiring and have made significant contributions to the tech industry.
2025 Singapore Girls in Tech (SGGIT) List Honourees
“... 25 young talent under the Girls in Tech category, recognising female students aged 13 to 35 who demonstrate exceptional passion for STEM and are applying technology to make a difference in their communities.”
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Best Paper Award
from the IEEE Computer Society for the paper, “Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models”.
The best paper of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) that was published in the preceding year (2024).
Best Student Paper Award
at SAP Cloud Accelerated Learning Experience (S.C.A.L.E. 2025).
Best Paper Award
at the 16th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS 2025), for the paper, "Multi-terminal berth allocation with vessel rerouting and container transfers via shuttle vessels".
This is best paper award for the annual international workshop on computational transportation science. One of the most prestigious conferences on transportation intersects with optimization and computing.
Most Influential Paper Award
at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2025) for the paper, “Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction”.
The award is given on a ten-year basis to authors of papers published at QRS ten years ago that were judged to have the greatest impact on the theory or practice of software quality, reliability, and security in the ten years since its initial publication.
