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Awards & Achievements

August 2025
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Junkai Liang
Zhi Zhang
Xin Zhang
Qingni Shen
Yansong Gao
Xingliang Yuan
Assistant Professor XUE, Haiyang
Pengfei Wu, Senior Research Scientist, SMU Centre on Security, Mobile Applications and Cryptography
Zhonghai Wu

at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2025), for the paper, “Achilles: A Formal Framework of Leaking Secrets from Signature Schemes via Rowhammer”.

Honorable Mentions 34th USENIX Security Symposium recognise a select group of submissions that rank among the most exceptional in the conference. These distinctions highlight work that demonstrates outstanding technical merit, originality, and potential impact within the security and privacy research community.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
August 2025
1st
was awarded to:
TAM Kai Ze

at SEA Quantathon 2025.

Awards Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students | Competitions
August 2025
2024 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Best Paper Award
was awarded to:
PhD Graduate YANG Zhou
PhD Graduate XU Bowen
Jie M. ZHANG
PhD Graduate KANG Hong Jin
PhD Candidate SHI Jieke
PhD Candidate HE Junda
OUB Chair Professor David LO

from the IEEE Computer Society, for the paper, “Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models”.

Awards Postgraduate Research (Publications) Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
August 2025
Best Student Paper Award
was awarded to:
Shiyin Tan
Dongyuan Li
Renhe Jiang
Zhen Wang
Manabu Okumura

at KDD2025 for the paper, "Taming Recommendation Bias with Causal Intervention on Evolving Personal Popularity"

Awards Research (Publications)