- Nominated for the Golden Apple Teaching Award for the Most Inspiring Teacher
- Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA): prepared a successful fellowship application for the recognition by the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
- Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2010)
- Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship: awarded the prestigious and nationally competitive Australian Postdoctoral (APD) Fellow for 2008 -2011 to work on Adaptive data stream processing in heterogeneous distributed computing environments using real-time context
- Excellence in PhD thesis: PhD thesis nominated for Mollie Holman award for best PhD theses in 2006 at Monash University
- International Panel of Expert Advisers for AusDM: chosen as a panel member of a list of international experts for the Australasian Data Mining Conferences.
- IBM Internship: the award of three-month internship at IBM T.J Watson Research Center, New York, USA with Dr. Philip Yu (one of the leading researchers in the data mining field) that resulted in two complete research projects with several joint publications.
- Faculty of Information Technology Scholarship, Monash University: the award of Faculty of Information Technology PhD Scholarship.
- Biography Selected for Monash University Publications: my profile has been selected for inclusion in Monash University scholarship application guide for 2006, and 2004 Monash Research Graduate School Annual Report.
- Who's Who of Emerging Leaders - 2007, 1st Edition: biography selected and included in Who's Who of Emerging Leaders - 2007, 1st Edition.
- CSIRO Teamwork Award: awarded the CSIRO teamwork award in 2007 with other staff members in the Tasmanian ICT Centre.