Faculty Awards & Achievements

December 2025
ACM Distinguished Member 2025
was awarded to:

from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM has named 61 new Distinguished Members. 

All the 2025 inductees are registered members and were selected by their peers for significant technical achievements and/or volunteer service. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of the worldwide ACM membership for their technical achievements and/or service to the field.

October 2025
Top Reviewer
October 2025
was awarded to:

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,

  • Prof Robert H. DENG (Zhongni Distinguished Educator Award)
  • Senior Lecturer Kiruthika RAMANATHAN (Most Promising Teacher)
  • Associate Prof TAN Kar Way (Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Professional Programmes)
  • Associate Prof WANG Hai (Excellent Teacher)
  • Associate Prof Kyong Jin SHIM (SMU-X Excellent Teacher)

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.

September 2025
SMU Core Curriculum Teaching Excellence Award 2025 (Capabilities Pillar) Winner
was awarded to:

from the SMU College of Integrative Studies (CIS).

SMU CIS which oversees the SMU Core Curriculum, has established these awards to recognise outstanding faculty members and adjunct instructors who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and a strong commitment to student learning within the Core Curriculum. Each academic year, awardees are selected for each of the three pillars of the Core Curriculum - Capabilities, Communities and Civilisations. Recipients of three consecutive teaching awards are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

August 2025
2025 Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) List Honourees
was awarded to:

Organised by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), in partnership with SG Women in Tech and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). 

The list recognises and celebrates women based in Singapore who have been inspiring and have made significant contributions to the tech industry.

May 2025
Distinguished Reviewer Award
was awarded to:

at the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25)

This is awarded to the top rated reviewers of the ICSE'25 Programme Committee.

April 2025
MSR Foundational Contribution Award
was awarded to:

at the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2025)

This award recognizes fundamental contributions in the field of mining software repositories, which helped many others to build on it to advance the state of the art. Citation from award committee: "For pioneering, influential, extensive, and lasting contributions to transforming bug and test data into insights and automation that improve software quality and productivity."

December 2024
AIS Fellow 2024
was awarded to:

from the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching and service.

December 2024
Fellow of Web Intelligence Academy
was awarded to:

from the Web Intelligence Academy (WIA). The WIA promotes the advancement of science, engineering, and technology by recognizing and honoring the leading intellectuals, scholars, researchers, and practitioners who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the field of Web Intelligence (WI). 

In 2024, seven individuals around the globe have been awarded WIA fellowship in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the advancement of web intelligence.

November 2024
NUS Distinguished Computing Alumni Award 2023
was awarded to:

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.

October 2024
Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (Associate Editor) 2024
was awarded to:

from INFORMS 2024. These awards recognize associate editors, special issue guest editors, and reviewers who have offered exceptional service in the editorial process.

October 2024
Distinguished Reviewer Award
was awarded to:
October 2024
SMU Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award 2024 - Recipients
was awarded to:

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.

October 2024
Best Student Paper Award
September 2024
Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2024
was awarded to:

from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

The award rewards the top 8% of the thesis defended at ISTA each year.

September 2024
Outstanding Reviewer Award
was awarded to:

at the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2024)

This award recognizes 198 outstanding reviewers, representing the top 2.7% of the 7,293 ECCV2024 reviewers, for their timely and high-quality contributions.

July 2024
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Reviewer Award
was awarded to:

at the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2024).

This is awarded to 12 of the 189 PC members of the technical research track.

July 2024
Distinguished Reviewer Award
was awarded to:

at the 1st ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware). 

The award is awarded to 4 of the 50 PC members of the technical research track.

April 2024
Best Reviewer Award
was awarded to:

at the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt 2024).

Best Reviewer Award was awarded to 3 of the 34 PC members of the technical research track.