Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
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
at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Think Like Human Developers: Harnessing Community Knowledge for Structured Code Reasoning".
Top 1-2% of all submissions (less than 10% of all accepted papers).
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
at the 48th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "UniCoR: Modality Collaboration for Robust Cross-Language Hybrid Code Retrieval".
Top 1-2% of all submissions (less than 10% of accepted papers)
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
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
at the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026), for the paper, "What You Trust Is Insecure: Demystifying How Developers (Mis)Use Trusted Execution Environments in Practice".
Top 1-2% of submissions (less than 10% of accepted papers).
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.