Research Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
Best Paper Award (Applications Track)
at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2023) for the paper, “HRGCN: Heterogeneous Graph-level Anomaly Detection with Hierarchical Relation-augmented Graph Neural Networks”
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
2021 Best Paper Award - Runner-Up
2021 Best Paper Award - Runner-Up
Best Paper in Track & Nominees for Best Overall Conference Paper Award
Distinguished Paper Award Honourable Mentions
at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022), for the paper, “Curiosity-Driven and Victim-Aware Adversarial Policies”.
ISSRE 2022 Test-of-Time Award
NRF Investigatorship, Class of 2023
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Best Paper Award Nominee
Best Paper Award (Main Track)
at the 2022 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022), for the paper, “FREED: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Solution for Person Re-Identification”.
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2022
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee
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”.
Best Paper Honourable Mentions
at the IEEE VIS 2021, for the paper, “M2Lens: Visualizing and Explaining Multimodal Models for Sentiment Analysis”
Best Paper Honourable Mentions
at the IEEE VIS 2021 (Virtual) for the paper, “KG4Vis: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Visualization Recommendation”.