Awards & Achievements
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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.
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.
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.
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%).
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%).
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.
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
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.
For the award categories,
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.
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.
For the award categories,
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.
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.
For the award categories,
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.
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.
For the award categories,
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.
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.
For the award categories,
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.
