Awards

Distinguished Reviwer Award. 34th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025) ， June 2025.

ACM Distinguished Member. For contributions to empirical software engineering and AI for software engineering. ACM Feb 2025.

MSR FOSS Impact Paper Award. 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories （MSR 2024）， April 2024.

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), April 2024.

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2021 Best Paper Award Runner-Up, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, December 2022. Source: https://www.computer.org/publications/best-paper-award-winners

IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award, 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022), March, 2022

ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award. For contributions to AI and SE, mining software repositories, and empirical software engineering. ACM SIGSOFT, March, 2022

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), November 2021

Rising Star (Top 40 Young Researchers) in Australia (one of the five recipients in the Engineering & Computer Science area) by The Australian. Source: https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1540291/27/. September 2020

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020), September 2020

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2020), July 2020

Best Reviewer Award, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), February, 2020

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019), November 2019

Best Tool Demo Paper Award, 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019), August 2019

Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguishied Paper Award, 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering （ICSE 2019), May 2019

Distinguished Reviewer Award, Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, January, 2019

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2018), September 2018

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 26th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2018), May 2018

FOSS Impact Paper Award, 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018), May 2018

Nominated for Distinguished Paper Award, 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2017), September 2017 (Two Papers)

TSE Featured Paper, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, October 2016 Issue

Nominated for Best Paper Award, 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016), October 2016

Nominated for Best Paper Award, 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2016), May 2016

Best Student Paper Award, 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2014), August 2014