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.

August 2025

Best Paper Honourable Mentions

was received by:

at the IEEE VIS 2025, for the paper, “Qualitative Study for LLM-assisted Design Study Process: Strategies, Challenges, and Roles”.

May 2025

Honourable Mention

was received by:

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.

September 2024

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

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.

April 2024

1st Place from the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)

was awarded to:

at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) for the paper titled, “Classifying Source Code: How Far Can Compressor-based Classifiers Go?”.

March 2024

Mark Weiser Best Paper Award

was awarded to:

at the 22nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2024) for the paper, “DiTMoS: Delving into Diverse Tiny-Model Selection on Microcontroller”.

December 2023

Best Technical Design Paper Award

was awarded to:

at the 31st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2023) for the paper, “ExGen: Ready-To-Use Exercise Generation in Introductory Programming Courses”.

December 2022

Runner-up for 2021 Best Paper Award

was awarded to:

from the IEEE Computer Society, for the paper, “COVID-19 One Year on – Security and Privacy Review of Contact Tracing Mobile Apps”

December 2022

Best Paper in Track & Nominees for Best Overall Conference Paper Award

was received by:

at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2022), for the paper, “Personalized Recommendation for Balancing Content Generation and Usage on Two-Sided Entertainment Platforms”

June 2022

ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2022

was awarded to:

at the 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, for the paper, “Online Spatio-Temporal Demand Supply Matching”

May 2022

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee

was received by:

at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022) for the paper titled, “Detecting False Alarms from Automatic Static Analysis Tools: How Far are We?”

May 2022

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee

was received by:

at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022) for the paper titled, “Detecting False Alarms from Automatic Static Analysis Tools: How Far are We?”

May 2022

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee

was received by:

at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022) for the paper titled, “Detecting False Alarms from Automatic Static Analysis Tools: How Far are We?”

October 2021

Best Paper Honourable Mentions

was received by:

at the IEEE VIS 2021 (Virtual) for the paper, “KG4Vis: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Visualization Recommendation”.

October 2021

Best Paper Nomination

was awarded to:

at the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021), for the paper, “The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions”.

May 2021

Best Demonstration Award

was awarded to:

at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021) for the demonstration, “Ship-GAN: Generative Modeling Based Maritime Traffic Simulator”.

January 2021

Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

at the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), for the paper, “Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews”

January 2021

Best Research Demo

was awarded to:

at the 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2021) for the demonstration, “Demonstrating High-Performance Simultaneous Visible Light Communication and Sensing”.

June 2020

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020) for the paper, “A Machine Learning Approach for Vulnerability Curation”

July 2019

Best Application Paper Award

was awarded to:

at the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019) for the paper, “ZAC: A Zone pAth Construction Approach for Effective Real Time Ride Sharing”.

May 2019

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) in the 'New Ideas and Emerging Results' track, for the paper, “Hierarchical learning of cross-language mappings through distributed vector representations for code”