Research Awards & Achievements
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Honourable Mention
at the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026), for the paper, “Who You Explain To Matters: Learning by Explaining to Conversational Agents with Different Pedagogical Roles”.
Top 5% of submissions to CHI 2026 (6,730 submissions)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), for the paper, "Towards Understanding and Characterizing Vulnerabilities in Intelligent Connected Vehicles through Real-World Exploits".
Best Paper Candidate
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.