“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein
Recognition
Senior Professional Memberships
ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2022 - 2025
ACM Senior Member, 2014 -
IEEE Senior Member, 2012 -
Academic Awards
Excellent Reviewer, KDD 2025 (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
Outstanding Associate Editor of 2023-2024, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2024
Best Student Paper Award, AJCAI 2024 (The 37th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
IEEE Distinguished Leadership Award, IEEE Smart World Congress 2024
PC Members Honorable Mention, TheWebConf 2022 (The ACM Web Conference)
Best Paper Award, IEEE DSS 2021 (The 7th IEEE Int’l Conference on Data Science and Systems)
Researcher of the Year 2020 and Dean’s Medallion, School of Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences, Federation University Australia, 2021
The Vannevar Bush Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM/IEEE JCDL 2020 (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries)
Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2020
Best Paper Award, IEEE CSDE 2020 (IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering)
Outstanding Associate Editor of 2018, IEEE Access, 2019
Best Demo Award, WWW 2017 (The 26th World Wide Web Conference)
Best Paper Award, IEEE DataCom 2017 (The 3rd IEEE Int’l Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing)
Best Paper Award, IEEE UIC 2013 (The 10th IEEE Int’l Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing)
Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE CPSCom 2011
Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE iThings 2011
Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE/ACM GreenCom 2010
Lists
Honored as a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar (Overall (All Fields); Prior Five Years)(Top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide, #5,897), 2024
Named on the list of Top Computer Scientists in Australia (ranked #60) by Research.com, 2023
Named on the Top 2% Scientist in the World List published by Stanford University, 2020 -
Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), 2019