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Awards & Achievements
2025 Test of Time Award
at the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2025) for the paper, “Detecting product review spammers using rating behaviors”.
The Test of Time Award is given for CIKM papers published at least ten years ago, and that have had an important and sustained impact on the research community. Each year, only 1 or 2 papers are selected for the award.
at the inaugural SMU Alumni Awards 2025 on 12 November 2025 at SMU Hall, with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam as Guest of Honour.
Launched in celebration of SMU’s Silver Jubilee, the SMU Alumni Awards marked the University’s highest recognition of alumni achievement. To be conferred every five years, the Awards honour SMU alumni and associate alumni who have distinguished themselves through professional excellence, innovation, and service to society.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, “Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair”.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished papers are given to at most 10% of the papers accepted at an ACM SIGSOFT-sponsored conference.
at the NCS Sunshine.AI Hackathon 2025.