Faculty Awards & Achievements
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.
DS Lee Foundation Fellowship
Established in 2012 by Dr Della Suantio Lee and the DS Lee Foundation, the award is given to junior faculty members to support academic and industry-relevant research, and participation in international research programmes that are crucial to improving the understanding of Asian businesses.
Jubilee Technology Fellowship
Established in April 2021 to support the School of Computing and Information Systems’ research in the areas of AI and Cognitive Computing.
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship
Established in 2014 using the Lee Kong Chian Fund for Research Excellence from the Lee Foundation, the Fellowship acknowledges and rewards faculty who have an excellent research record and hold great promise.
Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence
Founded in 2001, the award is given annually to outstanding SMU faculty based on their research performance in the previous year.
Nominees are evaluated based on the originality of projects, research track record, importance of research findings, multidisciplinary nature of projects, ability to attract the interest and collaboration of faculty from world-class universities.
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.
IEOM Outstanding Professor Award
IEOM Outstanding Service Award & Outstanding Young Faculty Award
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”