Awards

2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award

2021 ACM distinguished member

2017 Honourable Mention, SpeCam: sensing surface color and material with the front-facing camera of a mobile device

2016 Honourable Mention, WatchMI: Pressure Touch, Twist and Pan Gesture Input on unmodified smartwatches, ACM MobileHCI

2016 Best Poster, SideTap and SlingShot, ACM UIST
2015 Runner-up, British Library Labs Awards
2014 Best Paper, 12^th ACM International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2014) for the paper,AwToolkit: attention-aware user interface widgets [PDF]

2011 Best Paper, International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions for the paper, Exploring temporal ego networks using small multiples and tree-ring layouts [PDF]
2010 Finalist, University of Newcastle Australia, Alumni Award for Regional Leadership [PDF]
2008 Award, IEEE VAST 2008 Challenge: Node-Link Animation (Cell Phone mini challenge) for the submission Animating Multivariate Dynamic Social Networks [PDF]
2007 Best Paper, IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium for the paper,
Visualisation Techniques to Support Derivation Tasks in Software Product Line Development [PDF]
2007 Judge’s Mention, Images of Research Competition University College Dublin for the image, Force Directed Visualisation
2007 Best Poster, IBM Dublin CASCON for the poster,
From Migrations to Population Concentration
2006 Honorable mention, IEEE Information Visualisation Conference contest for π-flow
2001 Best Poster, Visual Information Processing for the poster
Large Scale 3D Clustering and Abstraction [PDF]
2001 Education Award, Excellence in Engineering Education by the National Institute of Engineers Australia for the Faculty of Engineering, University of Newcastle
1997 AJET Prefectural Representative (Elected) for Saga Ken in Japan.