Faculty Awards & Achievements
Distinguished Reviewer Award
at the Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications (SETTA 2024).
This was awarded to 4 of the 50 program committee members.
Distinguished Reviewer Award
at the Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering. Theories, Tools, and Applications (SETTA 2024).
This was awarded to 4 of the 50 program committee members.
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.
Outstanding Reviewer Award
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.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Reviewer Award
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.
Distinguished Reviewer Award
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.
Best Reviewer Award
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.
ACM Fellow 2023
from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.
2023 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,
FlashVision: Dynamic-Background Tolerant Video Conferencing via Flash Photography
Advancing Large Language Models for Target-Driven Conversation
Synergizing Large Language Models for Collaborative Planning
SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2023
from the SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), for the project, “VR-Enabled Immersive Learning for Computing Courses”
JCST Outstanding Reviewer Award 2022
from the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST).
This award is for 10 outstanding reviewers selected from 1350 JCST reviewers who conducted peer review in 2020-2022, based on the quality, quantity and timeliness of their reviews.
NRF Investigatorship, Class of 2023
Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award
SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2022
from the SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), for the project, “VR-Enabled Immersive Learning for Computing Courses”
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.
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.
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.