Awards & Achievements
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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
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Honourable Mention
at the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026), for the paper, “Who You Explain To Matters: Learning by Explaining to Conversational Agents with Different Pedagogical Roles”.
Top 5% of submissions to CHI 2026 (6,730 submissions)
at the LotusHacks 2026
at the FinTech Innovators' Hackathon 2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Towards Understanding and Characterizing Vulnerabilities in Intelligent Connected Vehicles through Real-World Exploits".
at the DG Sprints Vibe Coding Challenge by GovTech Singapore.
Best Paper Candidate
at the Build for Impact 2026 Hackathon.
at the Cargill x SMU BIA Datathon 2026.
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
from the ACM SIGSOFT for his dissertation “Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code”.
ACM Distinguished Member 2025
from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM has named 61 new Distinguished Members.
All the 2025 inductees are registered members and were selected by their peers for significant technical achievements and/or volunteer service. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of the worldwide ACM membership for their technical achievements and/or service to the field.
IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Associate Editor (2024-2025)
from the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS).
The award recognizes very selective Associate Editors (AEs) whose exceptional contributions, professionalism, and dedication have played an important role in the continued growth and reputation of TNNLS in the year of 2024-2025.
DSO-AISG Incentive Award
and is a joint initiative between AI Singapore (AISG) and DSO, designed to inspire post-graduate students to explore research related to large language models (LLMs).