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Awards & Achievements
Best Themed Paper
at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models".
Best Themed Paper Award recognizes the best paper within the conference's special annual theme. The selection process starts with 158 nominated papers (7% of accepted main conference papers). After two rounds of review, 30 papers (1.3% of accepted papers) are selected for paper awards. Finally, 2 out of 30 papers are selected for the Best Themed Paper Award.
at Security CTF at the Cisco Connect Singapore 2026.
Honourable Mention
at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2026, for the paper, "Group Conversational Agents: A Review of Designs that Support and Shape Group Interaction".
Top 5% of all submissions to ACM DIS 2026.
2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award
at the The 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).
One of the most prestigious early-career awards in the KDD field, this award recognizes an individual within the first 10 years after their PhD for outstanding research contributions, leadership, and service, with at most one recipient (or none) selected each year; notable prior awardees include Evangelos (Vagelis) Papalexakis (UCI, USA), Tanmoy Chakraborty (IIIT, India), Feida Zhu (SMU, Singapore), and Yang Yu (NanjingU, China).