Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
et al. at the 35th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026), for the paper, “Are We Stuck? Modeling and Detecting Deadlocks in Multi-Autonomous Vehicle Systems”
et al. at the 35th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026), for the paper, “Characterizing and Repairing Obsolete Android GUI Tests under UI Evolution”
at the UBS Global Coding Challenge 2026.
as Principal Investigator from SMU and IBM team member, representing SMU and IBM teams respectively, at the 2026 SICC Awards, for the “SMU-IBM AI Supply Chain Risk Model Delivers US$35M Saving by Singapore Management University and IBM Singapore Pte Ltd” collaboration.
Launched in 2015, the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) Awards are built on the conviction that collaboration is very often the quickest way for companies, from all sectors and of all sizes, to innovate, grow and sustain themselves.
Part of the winning team at the International Quantum Computing Hackathon for Social Good (QC4SG).
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights
at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "SeCuRepair: Semantics-Aligned, Curriculum-Driven, and Reasoning-Enhanced Vulnerability Repair Framework".
The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.
Best Themed Paper
at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models".
Best Themed Paper Award recognizes the best paper within the conference's special annual theme. The selection process starts with 158 nominated papers (7% of accepted main conference papers). After two rounds of review, 30 papers (1.3% of accepted papers) are selected for paper awards. Finally, 2 out of 30 papers are selected for the Best Themed Paper Award.
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights
at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents".
The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.
at Security CTF at the Cisco Connect Singapore 2026.
Honourable Mention
at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2026, for the paper, "Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction".
Top 5% of all submissions to ACM DIS 2026.
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award
at the The 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).
One of the most prestigious early-career awards in the KDD field, this award recognizes an individual within the first 10 years after their PhD for outstanding research contributions, leadership, and service, with at most one recipient (or none) selected each year; notable prior awardees include Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis (UCI, USA), Tanmoy Chakraborty (IIIT, India), Feida Zhu (SMU, Singapore), and Yang Yu (NanjingU, China).
for the Micron Technology Track at the National AI Student Challenge
SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award (Runner Up)
from the SPEC Research Group (RG), a group within the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), at the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), for her dissertation paper, "Log-Driven Automated Software Reliability Engineering".
The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is an annual award that aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general.
at the Deep Learning Week 2026.