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Awards & Achievements

April 2025
MSR Foundational Contribution Award
was awarded to:
OUB Chair Professor David LO

at the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2025). 

This award recognizes fundamental contributions in the field of mining software repositories, which helped many others to build on it to advance the state of the art. Citation from award committee: "For pioneering, influential, extensive, and lasting contributions to transforming bug and test data into insights and automation that improve software quality and productivity."

Awards Faculty
April 2025
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
was awarded to:
Toufique Ahmed
Prem Devanbu
Associate Professor Christoph TREUDE
Michael Pradel

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2025) for the paper, “Can LLMs Replace Manual Annotation of Software Engineering Artifacts?”.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
April 2025
Honourable Mention
was received by:
Yuki Abe
Keisuke Matsushima
Assistant Professor HARA, Kotaro
Daisuke Sakamoto
Tetsuo Ono

at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25) for the paper, ““I can run at night!”: Using Augmented Reality to Support Nighttime Guided Running for Low-vision Runners”.

This has been awarded to papers in the top 5% of submissions.

Awards Research (Publications) Faculty Research (Publications)
April 2025
Prestige Singapore 40 Under 40 2025
was awarded to:
Calixto TAY

Prestige 40 Under 40 is an annual initiative by Prestige Magazine that recognises and celebrates the most influential and innovative individuals under the age of 40 across various industries.

Alumni Awards Undergraduate Alumni