Research Awards & Achievements
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"
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
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.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Honourable Mention
at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25) for the paper, ““I can run at night!”: Using Augmented Reality to Support Nighttime Guided Running for Low-vision Runners”.
This has been awarded to papers in the top 5% of submissions.
Best Paper Award
at the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2025) for the paper, “ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots”.
Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
Best Full Paper Award
from the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Blockchain Innovations and Technologies (AIS SIGBIT) at the 13th SIGBIT Workshop on Information Technology and Systems on Web3 Ecosystem and Artificial Intelligence (Bangkok, Thailand) for the paper, “A Community-Driven Framework to Evaluate Factors Influencing NFT Buyers”.
The best paper among the 11 presented full papers in the workshop.
Best Paper Runner Up Award
at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2024) for the paper, “IRL for Restless Multi-armed Bandits with Applications in Maternal and Child Health”.
Only 2 of 543 submissions receive the award.
2024 Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards
Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards are focused on supporting exceptional computer science research in the region. Through this program we also intend to strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.
For their papers,
Enabling Diverse Tiny Model Selection on Microcontroller-based IoT devices
Robust and Efficient Alignment for Integrity in Large Language Model Powered Conversational Agents
INFORMS Outstanding SIG Paper in Urban Transportation
at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Multiobjective Stochastic Optimization: A Case of Real-Time Matching in Ride-Sourcing Markets”.
The INFORMS TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics.
INFORMS TSL Cross-Regional Collaborative Grant Award
at INFORMS 2024, for the paper, “Decentralization and Multi-Modality for Advanced Air Mobility”.
This is the collaborative grant award for INFORMS members across regions, which recognizes and motivates cross-regional collaborative excellent research.
Best Student Paper Award
at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024) for the paper, “An Empirical Study of Automatic Program Repair Techniques for Injection Vulnerabilities”
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.
Winner of SMU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 2024
Distinguished Paper Award
at the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2024) for the paper, “Sound and Complete Witnesses for Template-based Verification of LTL Properties on Polynomial Programs”
