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 Ph.D. 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
- Ph.D. 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
- Elsevier Atlas Award nomination for September 2015.
- Invited keynote speaker: PSB 2016 Social media mining for public health and surveillance.
- Received an 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.