Awards & Achievements
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PAKDD Distinguished Contributions Award
at the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019).
Also featured in SMU News, “Two SMU computing dons honoured at Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2019”
PAKDD Early Career Award
at the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019).
Also featured in SMU News, “Two SMU computing dons honoured at Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2019”
Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore
IEEE Fellow
from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number of IEEE senior members elevated to Fellow in any one year may not exceed one-10th of 1 percent of the total IEEE voting membership on record as of 31 December of the preceding year.
ACM Distinguished Member 2018
from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Also featured in SMU News , “Rajesh Balan named ACM Distinguished Member”.
Highly Commended Full Paper Award
Best Paper Award
at the ACM International Joint Conference and International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018)/Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), for the paper, “Exploiting the Inter-dependency of Land Use and Mobility for Applications in Urban Planning”
Best Application Demo Award
AI's 10 to Watch
Developing Emerging Skills and Competencies Award – BRONZE
from QS Reimagine Education Awards 2022, for the course, “SMT202 Analytics Applications for Smart Living”
Best Paper Award
at the 8th ACM International Digital Health Conference (ACM Digital Health 2018), for the paper, “Does Journaling Encourage Healthier Choices? Analyzing Healthy Eating Behaviors of Food Journalers”
2017 Google Women Techmakers Scholarship (APAC)
Google's Women Techmakers program provides visibility, community, and resources for women in technology.
Membership empowers women in their careers by providing access to curated resources and events, as well as information and tools from Google, our partners, and the global tech ecosystem.
IEEE Fellow
from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number of IEEE senior members elevated to Fellow in any one year may not exceed one-10th of 1 percent of the total IEEE voting membership on record as of 31 December of the preceding year.
Best Paper Award
at the WristSense Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices (PerCom ’15 Workshops), for the paper, “The Case for Smartwatch-based Diet Monitoring”
