Postgraduate Research Publications with Awards
Note: For our graduates, the following listings include awards that were received during their study period here with us. All profiles will reflect their latest and current statuses.
Senior Area Chairs (SAC) Highlights
at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), for the paper, "SeCuRepair: Semantics-Aligned, Curriculum-Driven, and Reasoning-Enhanced Vulnerability Repair Framework".
The SAC Highlight is an award given by the Senior Area Chairs to recognize one or a small number of papers from their area that they consider particularly outstanding. Selected papers exemplify qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, or potential positive impact on the field. Typically, the award is given to less than 1% of all submissions. These papers are independent of the Best Paper Committee's selection.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Think Like Human Developers: Harnessing Community Knowledge for Structured Code Reasoning".
Top 1-2% of all submissions (less than 10% of all accepted papers).
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
at the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026), for the paper, "What You Trust Is Insecure: Demystifying How Developers (Mis)Use Trusted Execution Environments in Practice".
Top 1-2% of submissions (less than 10% of accepted papers).
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
from the ACM SIGSOFT for his dissertation “Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code”.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) at the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025), for the paper, '"My productivity is boosted, but …" Demystifying Users’ Perception on AI Coding Assistants'.
Distinguished Paper Award
at the UbiComp / ISWC 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)., for the paper, “LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds”.
The Distinguished Paper Awards are assigned every year to 3-4% of papers published by IMWUT ((SCIS A*)) in the previous year. This year, 8 papers were selected for an award from 208 accepted papers (3.8%).
Best Paper Award
at the 11th Workshop on Body-Centric Computing Systems (BodySys), co-located with UbiComp / ISWC 2025. , for the paper, “Morphology-Aware HRV Estimation from Wrist PPG in Sedentary Scenarios”.
The Best Paper Award is assigned to the single paper out of nine papers accepted workshop.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Best Paper Award
from the IEEE Computer Society for the paper, “Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models”.
The best paper of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) that was published in the preceding year (2024).
Best Paper Honourable Mentions
at the IEEE VIS 2025, for the paper, “Qualitative Study for LLM-assisted Design Study Process: Strategies, Challenges, and Roles”.
Honourable Mention
at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25) for the paper, “Prompting an Embodied AI Agent: How Embodiment and Multimodal Signaling Affects Prompting Behaviour”.
This has been awarded to papers in the top 5% of submissions.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024) for the paper, “AI Coders Are among Us: Rethinking Programming Language Grammar towards Efficient Code Generation”.
Top 10% accepted paper of the conference.
Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
Best Technical Design Paper Award
2021 Best Paper Award - Runner-Up
Best Paper in Track & Nominees for Best Overall Conference Paper Award
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2022
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee
Best Paper Honourable Mentions
at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, for the paper, “Structure-aware Visualization Retrieval”
Most Influential Paper Award
at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022) for the paper, “Information Retrieval Based Nearest Neighbor Classification for Fine-Grained Bug Severity Prediction”.