Awards & Achievements
ASE Fellow
from the steering committee of the IEEE/ACM International Conferences on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).
As authorized by the ASE Charter, this honor is bestowed in perpetuity on those who are deemed by the ASE Steering Committee to have rendered significant and sustained contributions to the ASE Community, through their scientific accomplishments and their service to the ASE Conferences, ASE Journal, and to the ASE research community in general.
Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SGWIT) 2021 Honouree
Organised by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) and in partnership with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
The SG100WIT List is an initiative that recognises and celebrates women based in Singapore who have been inspiring their communities and making significant contributions to the tech industry.
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2021
Her World Young Woman Achiever 2021
from Her World.
Best Paper Honorable Mentions
at the IEEE VIS 2021 (Virtual) for the paper, “KG4Vis: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Visualization Recommendation”.
Best Paper Nomination
at the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021), for the paper, “The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions”.
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 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
IEOM Outstanding Professor Award
IEOM Outstanding Service Award & Outstanding Young Faculty Award
AAAI Senior Member, Class of 2021
Distinguished Paper Award
Best Research Demo
Credit Scoring Challenge 2020 (Rank: 1/853)
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”
