Fellowships

• Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence (2019-2021)

• Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for Research Excellence (2018-2019)

• Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence (2009-2010)

 Best/Distinguished/Most Influential/Honorable Mention Paper Awards

• Most Influential Paper Award for our WCRE 2012 paper entitled "Information Retrieval Based Nearest Neighbor Classification for Fine-Grained Bug Severity Prediction" (presented during SANER 2022)

• Most Influential Paper Award for our ISSRE 2012 paper entitled "An Empirical Study of Bugs in Machine Learning Systems" (presented during ISSRE 2022)

• Honorable Mention (official, top-4 papers) for our ACSAC 2022 paper entitled "Curiosity-Driven and Victim-Aware Adversarial Policies"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee (official, top 19 papers, top 2.5% of all submissions) for our ICSE 2022 paper entitled "Detecting False Alarms from Automatic Static Analysis Tools: How Far are We?"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Nominee (official, top 19 papers, top 2.5% of all submissions) for our ICSE 2022 paper entitled "Static Inference Meets Deep learning: A Hybrid Type Inference Approach for Python"

• Best Paper Runner Up for our TSE 2021 paper entitled "How does Machine Learning Change Software Development Practices?"

• Clarivate's Highly Cited Paper (top 1%) distinction for our TSE 2021 paper entitled "Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for our MSR 2020 paper entitled "A Machine Learning Approach for Vulnerability Curation"

• Best Tool Demo Paper award for our ESEC-FSE 2019 paper entitled "BIKER: a tool for Bi-information source based API method recommendation"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for our ASE 2019 paper entitled "Automatic Generation of Pull Request Descriptions"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for our ASE 2018 paper entitled "Neural-Machine-Translation-Based Commit Message Generation: How Far Are We?"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for our ICPC 2018 paper entitled "Deep Code Comment Generation"

• Highly Commended Paper award for our ESEM 2018 paper entitled "Prediction of Relatedness in Stack Overflow: Deep Learning vs. SVM: A Reproducibility Study"

• Best Early Research Achievement Paper award for our SANER 2017 paper entitled "Harnessing Twitter to Support Serendipitous Learning of Developers"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for our ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2015 paper entitled "How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research"

• Most Promising Idea award for our ICPC 2014 paper entitled "Cross-Language Bug Localization"

• Best Student Paper award for our ICECCS 2014 paper entitled "Automatic Defect Categorization Based on Fault Triggering Conditions"

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for our ASE 2012 paper entitled "Duplicate Bug Report Detection with a Combination of Information Retrieval and Topic Modeling"

 Service Awards

• IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award, 2021

• Distinguished Program Committee Member, 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020), 2020

• Distinguished Program Committee Member, Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018), 2018

• Distinguished Program Committee Member, 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017), 2017

• Outstanding Reviewer, Information and Software Technology, 2016

• Distinguished Program Committee Member, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2015