Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
Best Paper Runner Up Award
at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2024) for the paper, “IRL for Restless Multi-armed Bandits with Applications in Maternal and Child Health”.
Only 2 of 543 submissions receive the award.
NUS Distinguished Computing Alumni Award 2023
from NUS School of Computing.
To recognise NUS Computing alumni whose endeavours in their chosen fields or professions are worthy of recognition and have brought honour to the University/School.
2024 Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards
Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards are focused on supporting exceptional computer science research in the region. Through this program we also intend to strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.
For their papers,
Enabling Diverse Tiny Model Selection on Microcontroller-based IoT devices
Robust and Efficient Alignment for Integrity in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents
INFORMS Outstanding SIG Paper in Urban Transportation
at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Multiobjective Stochastic Optimization: A Case of Real-Time Matching in Ride-Sourcing Markets”.
The INFORMS TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics.
INFORMS TSL Cross-Regional Collaborative Grant Award
at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Decentralization and Multi-Modality for Advanced Air Mobility”.
This is the collaborative grant award for INFORMS members across regions, which recognizes and motivates cross-regional collaborative excellent research.
Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (Associate Editor) 2024
from INFORMS 2024. These awards recognize associate editors, special issue guest editors, and reviewers who have offered exceptional service in the editorial process.
at the VeChain x EasyA x BCG Hackathon.
2024 SMU Teaching Excellence Awards - Recipients
The SMU Teaching Excellence Awards are given to recognise and value the importance of teaching as a complex and multi-faceted activity.
SMU Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award 2024 - Recipients
from Singapore Management University (SMU).
The Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award is a university-level award to formally acknowledge, inspire, and encourage excellent mentorship, and to recognise supervisors’ contributions in nurturing the next generation of future scholars, thought leaders, and game changers.
Best Student Paper Award
at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024) for the paper, “An Empirical Study of Automatic Program Repair Techniques for Injection Vulnerabilities”
Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2024
from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).
The award rewards the top 8% of the thesis defended at ISTA each year.
from the Build for Good 2024, for the project, "OhmSweetOhm"
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024) for the paper, “AI Coders Are among Us: Rethinking Programming Language Grammar towards Efficient Code Generation”.
Top 10% accepted paper of the conference.
Winner of SMU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 2024
Distinguished Paper Award
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
at Global E-commerce Challenge (GEC) 2024 by Alibaba International.