2008 and earlier

• Macquarie University International Scholarship (MUIS) for 3rd year of Bachelors ($19,250) 
• Macquarie University Bright Futures Recognition 
• Macquarie University International Scholarship (MUIS) for 2nd year of Bachelors ($18,480)
• Don McNeil Prize for Introductory Statistics ($1,000) 
• Le Fevre Memorial Prize for Physical Chemistry ($250) 
• Macquarie University International Scholarship (MUIS) for 1st  year of Bachelors ($18,480)
• The Daily Star Certificate of Excellence for GCE Advanced Level 
• European Standard School Academic Excellence Medal 

2009

• The Macquarie University Medal for Computing
• Macquarie University International Scholarship (MUIS) for Honours ($21,888) 
• Vice Chancellor’s Commendation Award for Academic Excellence 

2010

• Best paper prize, DICTA 2010 ($1000) 
• CSIRO Top-up Scholarship ($10,000 pa for 3 years) 
• The Australian National University MLSS 2010 Scholarship ($900) 
• HCSNet Winterfest Scholarship ($800) 
• Macquarie University Science and Technology Alumni Prize ($2,500) 
• iMQRES PhD Scholarship ($22,500 pa plus tuition and other expenses) 

2011

• Certificate for Successful Design and Organisation of the ALTA Shared Task 
• Foundations of Learning and Teaching (FILT) Scholarship, Macquarie University
• Certificate for Excellent Research Progress, Department of Computing 
• Excellent Presentation and Excellent Review Certificate, MCDC-2011 
• Department of Computing Excellence in Teaching Recognition 

2012  – 2014

• PhD dissertation: ranked as top 10% globally*
• ALTA 2012 student travel scholarship
• Second prize: 2012 ALTA Shared Task
• CSIRO research supplement grant ($3,000)
• Macquarie University PGRF grant ($5,000)

2014 – present

• Editor’s choice (Volume 54): Journal of Biomedical Informatics
• Invited keynote speaker: PSB 2016 Social media mining for public health and surveillance.
• Received a NIH/NIDA R01 grant focusing on social media mining for prescription medication abuse monitoring ($402,500 pa; 4 years).

* Two out of three reviewers ranked thesis as top 10%. Thesis reviewers: 1. Pierre Zweigenbaum, 2. Hercules Dalianis, and 3. Hanna Suominen.