Awards & Honours

Best Demonstration Honourable Mention Award (with Yani Zhang, Bingying Zhai, and Hui Li) in ACM SIGMOD 2026 for the paper titled RETRO: A Visual Tool for Understanding Cardinality Estimation Errors For Database Education.

Best Student Paper Award (with Shubham Swami, Santosh Aryal, and Curtis Dyreson) in ER 2023 for the paper titled Using a Conceptual Model in Plug-and-Play SQL.

Work on human-data interaction and data-driven COI management selected in the Special Issue of CACM highlighting cutting-edge research and innovation in East Asia and Oceania.

VLDB Journal Special Issue on Best of VLDB 2021 (with Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Jieming Shi, Yin Yang, Juncheng Liu).

2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (with Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Jieming Shi, Yin Yang, Juncheng Liu) for the paper titled No PANE, No Gain: Scaling Attributed Network Embedding in a Single Server.

Best Research Paper Award (with Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Jieming Shi, Yin Yang, Juncheng Liu) in VLDB 2021 for the paper titled Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs.

ACM Distinguished Member (ACM Distinguished Scientist). Fewer than 750 of the 100,000 ACM members have been given this recognition.

The paper titled Typicality-based Identification of Across-time Comparable Entity Pairs in News Archives (along with Yijun Duan, Adam Jatowt, Masatoshi Yoshikawa) was selected as one of the best papers in DASFAA 2019 (invited submission to DSE).

The paper titled GetReal: Towards Realistic Selection of Influence Maximization Strategies in Competitive Networks (along with Hui Li, Jiangtao Cui, Yunjun Gao, Jianfeng Ma) was Nominated for the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGMOD 2015.

The paper titled Stars on Steroids: Fast Evaluation of Multi-source Star Twig Queries in Path Materialization-based XML Databases (with E Leonardi, F Li) was selected as one of the best in DASFAA 2012 (invited submission to DKE).

Best Paper Award (with B.-S Seah, C.F. Dewey, H. Yu) in ACM BCB 2011 for the paper titled FUSE: Towards Multi-Level Functional Summarization of Protein Interaction Networks.

Finalist of ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge (ACM MM 2010) for the system Searching and Browsing Social Images Through iAVATAR, Firenze, Italy.

Nominated for the Best Paper Award in First ACM International Workshop on Social Media for the paper titled Image Tag Clarity: In Search of Visual-Representative Tags for Social Images.

Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing Using Relational Database Systems (with S Prakash, S Madria) was selected as one of the best papers in ER 2004 (invited submission to DKE).

Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (with Q Zhao, M Mohania, Y Kambayashi) in ACM CIKM 2004 for the paper titled Discovering Frequently Changing Structures from Historical Structural Deltas of Unordered XML.

Best Student Paper Award (Shubham Swami, Santosh Aryal) in ER 2023 for the paper titled Using a Conceptual Model in Plug-and-Play SQL.

Finalist (Christina Lui) of NTU Global Digital Art Prize (GDAP). Only 14 finalists are selected from 459 applications from 73 countries.

ACM Student Travel Award (Xi Lin) in ACM CIKM 2019 for the paper titled Path Travel Time Estimation using Attribute-related Hybrid Trajectories Network.

ACM Student Travel Award (Renchi Yang) in ACM SIGMOD 2019 for the paper titled Efficient Estimation of Heat Kernel PageRank for Local Clustering.

ACM Student Travel Award (Qiankun Zhao) in ACM SIGKDD 2006 for the paper titled Event Detection from Evolution of Click-Through Data.

ACM Student Travel Award (Erwin Leonardi) in ACM CIKM 2005 for the paper titled Detecting Changes on Unordered XML Documents Using Relational Databases: A Schema-Conscious Approach.

Distinguished Hyperion Student Travel Award (Q Zhao) in ACM CIKM 2004 for the paper titled Discovering Frequently Changing Structures from Historical Structural Deltas of Unordered XML.

Nominated for the Nanyang Education Award, School of Computer Science and Engg, NTU.

Gold Award in URECA (Undergraduate Research Opportunity on Campus) for the Research Poster Competition in 2006.

Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award for contributions in teaching.

Nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award for contributions in teaching.

Nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award for contributions in teaching during 2001 - 2003.

Lecturer of the Year Award for Year 1 course for 2002-2003 (Voted by the students).

Special Contributions to PVLDB Vol 18 (Reviewing Process), VLDB.

PVLDB Vol 18 Distinguished Reviewer Award, VLDB.

25 Years Long Service Award, NTU.

Long Service Medal (National Day Award), Singapore Prime Minister's Office.

Distinguished Meta-reviewer Award, EDBT.

Distinguished Senior PC Member Award, CODS-COMAD.

PVLDB Vol 16 Distinguished Reviewer Award, VLDB.

ACM SIGMOD 2023 Distinguished Associate Editor Award (Best of the Best), ACM SIGMOD.

SCSE Faculty Award, SCSE, NTU. Award that recognizes "faculty who have demonstrated either a variety of leadership qualities or shown sustained commitment in serving the School, or made special contributions towards the School to achieve research, education and administrative service excellence."

Distinguished Associate Editors Award, VLDB.

ACM SIGMOD 2021 Distinguished Associate Editor Award, ACM SIGMOD.

Distinguished PVLDB2020 Review Board Member Award, VLDB.

20 Years Long Service Award, School of Computer Science and Engg, NTU.

Best Research Wall Panel Award, School of Computer Science and Engg, NTU.

VLDB Service Award, VLDB Endowment.

15 Years Long Service Award, School of Computer Science and Engg, NTU.

10 Years Long Service Award, School of Computer Engg, NTU.

Outstanding Academic Staff (Top 5.5%) for 2003 based on contributions made in teaching, research, and administrative work.

Outstanding Academic Staff (Top 5.5%) for 2002 based on contributions made in teaching, research, and administrative work.