Awards

Our commitment to excellence is recognised through the many awards and accolades we’ve received over the years. These awards are a testament to our team’s dedication, innovation, and hard work across various fields.

2025

  • IEEE Fellowship, John Grundy
  • Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) Women in STEMM Student Leadership Award, Ruchi Sembey

2024

  • Advance HE (UK) Fellowship, Ruchi Sembey
  • ASESS Sydney, Student Research Award (people’s choice), Hashini Gunatilake
  • Asian Australian Leadership Award under Education, Science & Medicine finalist, Anuradha Madugalla
  • Faculty of IT Student Ambassador Award, Ruchi Sembey
  • Faculty of IT Dean’s Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Community), Ruchi Sembey
  • FIT Dean’s Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Community) - Information Empowered Communities, Digital Transformation, Department of Human-Centred Computing, Tanjila Kanij
  • Faculty of IT Postgraduate Publications Award, Aastha Pant
  • Faculty of IT Dean's Graduate Research Supervision Award, John Grundy
  • Faculty of IT Dean's Research Excellence nomination, HumaniSE Lab
  • Hacakthon: Maximising Research Outcomes for Women in STEM, Women in STEM careers and entrepreneurship workshop, People's Choice Award, Hira Naveed
  • HumaniSE Lab One-Slide Showcase 1st, Shavindra Wickramathilaka
  • HumaniSE Lab One-Slide Showcase 2nd, Hashini Gunatilake
  • HumaniSE Lab One-Slide Showcase joint 3rd, Suyu Ma, Wei Wang
  • HumaniSE Lab Poster Presentation 1st, Hashini Gunatilake
  • HumaniSE Lab Poster Presentation 2nd, Fanyu Wang
  • HumaniSE Lab Poster Presentation joint 3rd, Hira Naveed,  Mingyi Zhou
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship PhD Thinker, Ruchi Sembey
  • Monash Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award, Ruchi Sembey
  • SSC Catchy 3MT titles, Hashini Gunatilake
  • Vice Chancellor's Excellence Awards: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Community), Special Commendation, Ruchi Sembey
  • Vice Chancellor's Excellence Awards: Graduate Research Supervision Special Commendation, John Grundy

2023

  • ACM Best Paper Award for Software Engineering in Society (SEIS) Track at the 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), Tanjila Kanij
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, John Grundy
  • CORE (Computing Research & Education), Distinguished Service Award, John Grundy
  • Faculty of IT Dean’s Awards for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for enhancing research and research impact relating to equity, diversity and inclusion, John Grundy
  • Faculty of IT Graduate Research Completion Award, Dulaji Hidellaarachchi
  • Faculty of IT Student Ambassador Award, Ruchi Sembey
  • HumaniSE Lab One-Slide Showcase 1st, Ulrike (Maria) Graetsch
  • HumaniSE Lab One-Slide Showcase 2nd,  Wei Wang
  • HumaniSE Lab One-Slide Showcase joint 3rd, Yutan Huang, Devi Karolita
  • Lero David Lorge Parnas Fellow, John Grundy
  • Monash Education Excellence Award, Ruchi Sembey
  • VL/HCC Best Showpiece Award, Hourieh Khalajzadeh

2022

  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft), Hourieh Khalajzadeh
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), John Grundy, Humphrey Obie
  • Faculty of IT Dean’s Awards for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in research (positively impacting equity, diversity and inclusion through research). Tanjila Kanij, Jennifer McIntosh, John Grundy
  • Faculty of IT Dean’s Award Nomination for Research Excellence by a Graduate Student, Kashumi Madampe
  • Faculty of IT Postgraduate Publications Award, Kashumi Madampe
  • Google Inclusion Award, Towards a More Inclusive Computer Science Teaching and Learning Environment, John Grundy, Tanjila Kanij
  • Hederskdoktor (honorary doctorate) of Engineering, Mälardalens Universitet at Västerås, Sweden, Bran Selic

2021

  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, 14th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Hourieh Khalajzadeh
  • Superstar of STEM, Rashina Hoda

2020

  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), Hourieh Khalajzadeh
  • Best Showpiece Award, The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Hourieh Khalajzadeh
  • Distinguished Reviewer Award - IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Rashina Hoda

2019

  • Australian Laureate Fellow, John Grundy