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List of Distinguished/Best Paper Awards

2021

GERMAINE TNG
PhD in Psychology

"Honorable Mention" for the 2021 Rise Research Award for her paper entitled "Inhibitory Control Mediates the Relation between Intrusive Parenting and Externalising Behaviors in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children: A Structural Equation Analysis". 

SHUNA KHOO SHI ANN
PhD in Psychology

"Honorable Mention" for the 2021 Rise Research Award for her paper entitled "Mental Disengagement Mediates the Effect of Rumination on Smartphone Use: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis". 

LE TRUNG-HOANG
PhD in Computer Science

ICJAI Distinguished Paper Award at the ICJAI-PRICAI 2020 The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence for his paper entitled "Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews" (click to view paper). 
[Co-authored with Hady W. LAUW]


2019

TENGJIAO HUANG
PhD in Psychology

Winner of the Singapore Children's Society Research Grant for her paper entitled "Working Towards Success and Satisfaction of Working Motherhood: Examining the Value of a Paradox Mindset in Promoting Positive Appraisals of Career-motherhood Tensions".

HYEJUNG EUN
PhD in Business (OBHR)

Winner of the Samsung Economic Research Institute Scholarship Award for her paper entitled "The Creativity Divide: A Social Sampling Account Explaining How and Why Coming from a Family of Low Socioeconomic Status Impairs Creativity".

SEAN LEE
PhD in Psychology

Winner of the Fred Long Award for Research Excellence for his paper entitled "Scrutinizing the Association between Interleukin-6 and the Precipitation of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Population-based Longitudinal Study".

SEAN LEE
PhD in Psychology

Winner of the Singapore Psychological Society (SPS) Student Research Award Postgraduate category for his paper entitled "Scrutinizing the Association between Interleukin-6 and the Precipitation of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Population-based Longitudinal Study".

TINGTING LANG
PhD in Business (OBHR)

Winner of the 2019 grant of the Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund for her proposal entitled "Understanding the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Financing: Impact of Gender-Role Incongruity and Cultural Tightness".


2018

MENGZI JIN
PhD in Business (OBHR)

Winner of the 2018 grant of the Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund for her proposal entitled "Women in Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities".
 

2015

PETER KAY CHAI TAY
PhD in Psychology

Best Paper Award for Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 6, Article 851 (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00851) in 2015 for his paper entitled, "The adaptive value associated with expressing and perceiving angry-male and happy-female faces" (click to view paper)

SOUGATA SEN
PhD in Information Systems

Best Paper Award at the WristSense Workshop (March 2015) for his paper entitled, “The Case for Smartwatch-based Diet Monitoring” (click to view paper)

[Co-authored with Vigneshwaran SUBBARAJU, Archan MISRA, Rajesh Krishna BALAN and Youngki LEE]

TAN YI WEN (YVONNE)
PhD in Psychology

Best Paper/Poster Award at the Association for Psychological Science Convention (May 2015) for her paper entitled, “Female Businesspersons'Gender-Professional Identity Integration, Identity Cues and Negotiation Outcomes.”

BUI TIEN DUY LE
PhD in Information Systems

Best Paper Award at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2015), May 2015 for his paper entitled, "RCLinker: Automated Linking of Issue Reports and Commits Leveraging Rich Contextual Information" (click to view paper)

[Co-authored with Mario Linares-VASQUEZ , David LO, and Denys POSHYVANYK]

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