Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research (2021)

• Awarded by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE)
• This is the most prestigious award for mid-career computer scientists in Australasia. The prize is available to academics for post-PhD research undertaken in a university or research institution in Australia or New Zealand. The research must include a notable breakthrough or contribution of particular significance. At most one award is made each year.

Google Faculty Research Award 2018 (awarded in 2019)

Google Faculty Research Award 2015 (awarded in 2016)

Best Paper Awards

• Best Paper Award Runner-up of ACM KDD 2019 (Research Track)
• Best Student Paper Award Runner-up of DASFAA 2017
• Best Paper Award of ADC 2017
• Best Student Paper Award of ADC 2016
• Best Demo Paper Award of ADC 2016

Best Paper Award Nominations

• ACM KDD 2018 (Research Track) – 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (7 out of 181 full papers)
• IEEE ICDE 2009 (Research Track) – 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (8 out of 93 full papers)

Professional Service Award

• Distinguished Senior PC Award, EDBT 2024
• Distinguished Associate Editor Award, ACM SIGMOD 2023
• Distinguished Associate Editor Award, PVLDB 2023
• Research Track Best Reviewers, IEEE ICDE 2023
• Outstanding Senior PC Award, ACM WSDM 2022
• Distinguished Associate Editor Award, PVLDB 2021
• Distinguished Reviewer Award, ACM SIGMOD 2021

National Research Award

• 2011 National Research Gold Medal and Prize
  • awarded by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore #(https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/programmes/pg/awards/)

University-level Award

• Best PhD Thesis Award of School of Computing, National University of Singapore
  • the only winner out of the 35 PhD graduates of the whole school in the Class of 2011
• Best HDR Supervision Award 2017 (School of Science, RMIT)
  • among 200+ faculty members in the School
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, AY2016, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT (course title: Big Data Infrastructures)
• Top Course Award, AY2017, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT (course title: Programming 1)
• Top Course Award, AY2018, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT (course title: Big Data Management)