Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence
Founded in 2001, the award is given annually to outstanding SMU faculty based on their research performance in the previous year.
Nominees are evaluated based on the originality of projects, research track record, importance of research findings, multidisciplinary nature of projects, ability to attract the interest and collaboration of faculty from world-class universities.
at the CODE_EXP Hackathon; Organised by Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Singapore, for the app, “Say ‘Hi’ to HelloWorld”
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award 2021
from the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) in 2021 for providing outstanding and extensive service to the software engineering community in his many roles in major software engineering conferences (such as ASE, ICPC, ICSME, and SANER) and journals (such as co-EiC Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, AE of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Automated Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, and Journal of Software: Evolution and Process). This is one of the two most prestigious service awards in the field of Software Engineering.
Best Artifact Award
at the Iron Tech Invitational 2021; with SMU Pro Bono Centre (PBC) as project sponsor, for a, “'mobile-friendly solution to ease probate application process'”
Best Demonstration Award
at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021) for the demonstration, “Ship-GAN: Generative Modeling Based Maritime Traffic Simulator”.
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020
ECIR 2021 Test-of-Time Award
at the ASEAN-India Hackathon, for a, “browser-based AI instead of traditional AI models which require data to be processed by servers on the cloud or more powerful machines. Our lightweight models allow us to run them on smartphones and laptops which lack powerful processing capabilities and may not be connected to high-speed internet.”.
IEOM Outstanding Professor Award
IEOM Outstanding Service Award & Outstanding Young Faculty Award
AAAI Senior Member, Class of 2021
Distinguished Paper Award
Best Research Demo
2020 AIS Award for Best Conference Paper in IS Education
from the Association for Information Systems (AIS), for the paper, “SMU Teaching Bank: Case Study of a Multiyear Development Project Utilizing Student Resources”
Credit Scoring Challenge 2020 (Rank: 1/853)
at the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020), for the paper, “Pine: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Deep Packet Inspection on TLS with Rule-Hiding and Fast Connection Establishment”.
One of two best papers award.
SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2020
from the SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), for the project, “Interactive Programming Video Tutorial System to improve Learning Outcome of Programming Courses in Higher Education”
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020) for the paper, “A Machine Learning Approach for Vulnerability Curation”