2022 Guinness world record Fastest 1000 km achieved by an electric car on a single charge (prototype) – SunSwift Team
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
- 2014 Best Paper, 12th 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.