Awards & Achievements
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at The Cybersecurity Awards 2025 by the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP).
In its eighth year, The Cybersecurity Awards 2025 seeks to honour outstanding contributions by individuals and organisations, to local and regional cybersecurity ecosystems.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, '"My productivity is boosted, but …" Demystifying Users’ Perception on AI Coding Assistants'.
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.
at the NCS Sunshine.AI Hackathon 2025.
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”.
Honourable Mention
at the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025), for the paper, “Tactile Data Comics: Combining Step-by-step Presentation of Tactile Graphics with Verbal Narration for the Blind and Visually Impaired”.
The ASSETS' best honorable mention awards honor the top 5% of conference submissions.
Top Reviewer
at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).
Top 10% of the reviewers at NeurIPS 2025.
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.
Distinguished Paper Award
at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.
The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).
Best Paper Award
at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.
The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop.
Distinguished Tool Paper
in photo (R-L) with SCIS Dean Prof Pang, at the Appreciation Lunch and Awards Ceremony 2025, jointly organised by SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence and SMU College of Graduate Research Studies.
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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.
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 Dell InnovateFest 2025.
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