ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS FACULTY Professor Chua Chee Kai Professor Chua Chee Kai was appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore (SAEng) in 2023. Fellows are elected through a rigorous peer-review process that evaluates individuals on the basis of their stellar leadership and career achievements in the field of engineering across all disciplines. He was also recognised as one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in both 2022 and 2023 under the category of cross-field. According to Clarivate Plc, researchers on this prestigious list have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers, which rank in the top 1% for a field or fields in the Web of Science™. Associate Professor Foong Shaohui Associate Professor Foong Shaohui was awarded the Distinguished Award for the 2023 Minister’s Innovation Award. This award provides special recognition to a select number of innovation projects with large-scale sustained impact. Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria was recognised as one of the “10 to watch in AI” awardees in 2022. This biannual award, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Intelligent Systems, recognises the top 10 young and rising artificial intelligence scientists, who are selected from a pool of more than 30 competitive and strong nominations. Assistant Prof Poria was also recognised with the 2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI, for his outstanding contributions to research in Artificial Intelligence between 2013 and 2022. He also received the Young Scientist Award 2023, under the Physical, Information and Engineering Sciences (PIES) category. The Young Scientist Award publicly recognises highly innovative and productive Singapore-based scientists and engineers aged 35 and under who have shown great potential to be worldclass researchers in their fields of expertise. He was further awarded the 2024 IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award with the citation “For contributions to the development of deep learning models for conversational understanding, and sentiment and emotion analysis”. p. 43 ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24
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