Research 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.
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.
Finalist for Best Paper Competition - Applied Track
at the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics (DMDA) Workshop, for the paper, “Formulating Optimization Programs with Self-Improving LLM Experience Library”.
Honourable Mention
at the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025), for the paper, “Tactile Data Comics: Combining Step-by-step Presentation of Tactile Graphics with Verbal Narration for the Blind and Visually Impaired”.
The ASSETS' best honorable mention awards honor the top 5% of conference submissions.
2025 Google Academic Research Awards
for the research proposal, “Safeguarding Young Adults From “Crypto Influencer” Investment Scam” from Google LLC, with the 'Trust, Safety, Security, and Privacy Research Award', via the 'Google Academic Research Awards' program.
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.
Distinguished Tool Paper
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).
Honourable Mention
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.
2024 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Paper Honourable Mentions
at the IEEE VIS 2025, for the paper, “Qualitative Study for LLM-assisted Design Study Process: Strategies, Challenges, and Roles”.
Best Paper Award
at the 16th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS 2025), for the paper, "Multi-terminal berth allocation with vessel rerouting and container transfers via shuttle vessels".
This is best paper award for the annual international workshop on computational transportation science. One of the most prestigious conferences on transportation intersects with optimization and computing.
Most Influential Paper Award
at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2025) for the paper, “Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction”.
The award is given on a ten-year basis to authors of papers published at QRS ten years ago that were judged to have the greatest impact on the theory or practice of software quality, reliability, and security in the ten years since its initial publication.
Best Student Paper Award
Outstanding Poster
at the 1st CCF Graph Machine Learning Conference, for the poster, "Towards Graph Foundation Model: Multi-domain Pre-training and Multi-task Adaptation"
2nd Place
FSE2025 Test-of-Time Award
at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025) for the paper, “How practitioners perceive the relevance of software engineering research”.
The Test of Time Award is given annually recognizing highly influential papers published ten years ago.
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.
