Awards

May 2023

Nomination for Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Professional Programmes Award 2023
by the Centre for Teaching Excellence

Jan 2021

Distinguished Paper Award at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020 (IJCAI-20),
for the publication "Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews" by Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. Lauw.

Jul 2020

Lee Kong Chian Fellowship,
Established in 2014 using the Lee Kong Chian Fund for Research Excellence from the Lee Foundation, the Fellowship acknowledges and rewards SMU faculty who have an excellent research record and hold great promise.

Sep 2019

SMU-Educational Research Fellowship (SMU-ERF),
Established in 2019 to recognise faculty members who have demonstrated the ability or potential to attain accomplishment in educational research and to advance SMU’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

May 2017

Nomination for the Excellent Teacher Award,
SMU Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards.

Jul 2016

Lee Kong Chian Fellowship,
Established in 2014 using the Lee Kong Chian Fund for Research Excellence from the Lee Foundation, the Fellowship acknowledges and rewards SMU faculty who have an excellent research record and hold great promise.

Apr 2016

NRF Fellowship (Class of 2016),
The Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship provides opportunities for early career researchers to carry out independent research in Singapore, over a five-year period. Each Fellow is provided with a research grant to support projects that exhibit high likelihood of a research breakthrough.

Sep 2015

Nomination for the Most Promising Teacher Award,
SMU Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards.

Jul 2014

Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Paper Awards of AAAI Conference in Artificial Intelligence 2014 (AAAI-14),
for the publication "Manifold Learning for Jointly Modeling Topic and Visualization" by Tuan M. V. Le and Hady W. Lauw

Jan 2004

A*STAR Graduate Scholarship,
fully-funded fellowship from Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) for pursuing PhD studies in Singapore.

Jul 1999

Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship,
a private sector scholarship administered by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) awarded to outstanding individuals from Asia Pacific countries to pursue undergraduate studies in Singapore.

Jan 1995

ASEAN Scholarships,
scholarships administered by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) awarded to bright young students from ASEAN countries and China to pursue pre-university studies (secondary school and junior college) in Singapore.