Research Awards & Achievements

SMU Award Listings

SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)

SMU Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship

December 2022

Distinguished Paper Award Honourable Mentions

was received by:

at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022), for the paper, “Curiosity-Driven and Victim-Aware Adversarial Policies”.

November 2022

ISSRE 2022 Test-of-Time Award

was awarded to:

at the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022), for the paper, “An Empirical Study of Bugs in Machine Learning Systems”.

November 2022

NRF Investigatorship, Class of 2023

was awarded to:

from the National Research Foundation (NRF), for the project, “TrustedSEERs: Trusted Intelligent Work Bots for Engineering Better Software Faster”

July 2022

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

at the 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2022), for the paper, “Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Statistical Type Inference ”

July 2022

Best Paper Award Nominee

was received by:

at the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE2022) for the paper, “XSS for the Masses: Integrating Security in a Web Programming Course using a Security Scanner”.

June 2022

Best Paper Award (Main Track)

was awarded to:

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”.

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, “Static Inference Meets Deep Learning: A Hybrid Type Inference Approach for Python”

April 2022

Best Paper Honourable Mentions

was received by:

at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, for the paper, “Structure-aware Visualization Retrieval”

March 2022

Most Influential Paper Award

was awarded to:

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”.

October 2021

Best Paper Honourable Mentions

was received by:

at the IEEE VIS 2021, for the paper, “M2Lens: Visualizing and Explaining Multimodal Models for Sentiment Analysis”

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”.

September 2021

IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award

was awarded to:

from the ACM Journal, "Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT)", for the paper, “HeartQuake: Accurate Low-Cost Non-Invasive ECG Monitoring Using Bed-Mounted Geophones” in IMWUT Volume 4 (2020).

August 2021