Awards & Achievements

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October 2021

Best Paper Nomination

was awarded to:

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”.

May 2021

IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award 2021

was awarded to:

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.

May 2021

Best Demonstration Award

was awarded to:

at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021) for the demonstration, “Ship-GAN: Generative Modeling Based Maritime Traffic Simulator”.

April 2021

SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2020

was awarded to:

from the Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC).

March 2021

ECIR 2021 Test-of-Time Award

was awarded to:

at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021) for the paper, “Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models”

March 2021

IEOM Outstanding Professor Award

was awarded to:

at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2021).

March 2021

IEOM Outstanding Service Award & Outstanding Young Faculty Award

was awarded to:

at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2021).

February 2021

AAAI Senior Member, Class of 2021

was awarded to:

from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

January 2021

Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

at the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), for the paper, “Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews”

January 2021

Best Research Demo

was awarded to:

at the 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2021) for the demonstration, “Demonstrating High-Performance Simultaneous Visible Light Communication and Sensing”.

September 2020

Credit Scoring Challenge 2020 (Rank: 1/853)

was awarded to:

organised by Kalapa.

September 2020

SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2020

was awarded to:

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”

June 2020