Faculty Awards & Achievements
AAAI Senior Member, Class of 2021
SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2020
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”
AAAI Senior Member, Class of 2020
ACM Distinguished Members 2019
SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF) 2019
from the SMU Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE), for the project, “AI-Enabled Augmentation and Recommendation of Multimodal Learning Resources”.
Rising Star Fellow
at the Chan Wui & Yunyin Rising Star Workshop in 2019.
ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award 2018
NRF Investigatorship, Class of 2019
from the National Research Foundation (NRF), for the project, “C2SEA: Coordinated Cyber-physical Sensing & Edge Analytics”.
Also featured in SMU News, “SMU researcher Archan Misra wins grant to develop sustainable man-machine interaction intelligence”
Best Paper Award
at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 (CHI 2019) for the paper, “Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data at Scale”
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”.
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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.