Research Awards & Achievements
SMU College of Graduate Research Studies (CGRS)
IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award
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).
Best Student Conference Paper Award
Best Artifact Award
Best Demonstration Award
at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021) for the demonstration, “Ship-GAN: Generative Modeling Based Maritime Traffic Simulator”.
ECIR 2021 Test-of-Time Award
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”