Research Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
Distinguished Paper Award
Best Research Demo
2020 AIS Award for Best Conference Paper in IS Education
from the Association for Information Systems (AIS), for the paper, “SMU Teaching Bank: Case Study of a Multiyear Development Project Utilizing Student Resources”
at the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020), for the paper, “Pine: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Deep Packet Inspection on TLS with Rule-Hiding and Fast Connection Establishment”.
One of two best papers award.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020) for the paper, “A Machine Learning Approach for Vulnerability Curation”
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), for the paper, “White-box Fairness Testing through Adversarial Sampling”
Best Track Papers Awards - Logistics
at the 10th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2020), for the paper, “Vehicle Routing Problem for Multi-Product Cross-Docking”
WSDM 2020 Test-of-Time Award
at the 13th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM 2020), for the paper, “TwitterRank: finding topic-sensitive influential twitterers”
Best Paper Award
at the 2019 International Conference on IS Education and Research. (AIS-SIGED 2019), for the paper, “SMU Teaching Bank: Case Study of a Multiyear Development Project Utilizing Student Resources”
Best Paper in Optimization of Logistics and Supply Chain Systems
at the 14th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS 2019) for the paper, “A Green Mixed Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Realistic Energy Consumption and Partial Recharges”
Best Paper in Smart Logistics
at the 14th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS 2019) for the paper, “EzLog: Data Visualization for Logistics”
Best Application Paper Award
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
from ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) in the 'New Ideas and Emerging Results' track, for the paper, “Hierarchical learning of cross-language mappings through distributed vector representations for code”
ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award 2018
Bronze Medal from the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
NRF Investigatorship, Class of 2019
from the National Research Foundation (NRF), for the project, “C2SEA: Coordinated Cyber-physical Sensing & Edge Analytics”.
Also featured in SMU News, “SMU researcher Archan Misra wins grant to develop sustainable man-machine interaction intelligence”
Best Paper Award
at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 (CHI 2019) for the paper, “Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data at Scale”
Highly Commended Full Paper Award
Best Paper Award
at the ACM International Joint Conference and International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018)/Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), for the paper, “Exploiting the Inter-dependency of Land Use and Mobility for Applications in Urban Planning”