Awards, Honors, Medals, and Distinctions
  1. Ripple Faculty Fellow 2019-2023
  2. Waterloo Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research Award 2021
  3. Best Paper Award at Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication, and Computing (AAECC) Journal 2020
  4. ACM ISSTA Impact Paper Award 2019 (Best paper in 10 years at ACM ISSTA conference)
  5. IJCAI 'Sister Conference Best Paper Track' Invited Paper 2018
  6. Silver medal at SAT 2017 Competition (main track)
  7. Silver medal at SAT 2017 Competition (no-limits track)
  8. Invited Paper at Constraint Programming 2017 (CP 2017) conference
  9. Among top 3 best papers at SAT 2017
  10. ACM Test of Time Award at CCS 2016 (Best paper in 10 years at ACM CCS conference)
  11. Best Paper Award at ACSAC 2016
  12. Ontario Early Researcher Award 2016, Canada
  13. Gold medal at the SAT Competition 2016 (Main Track)
  14. Gold medal at the SAT Competition 2016 (Application Track)
  15. Symbolic Computation + Satisfiability Checking (SC^2) Track Invited Paper @ CASC 2016
  16. IJCAI 'Sister Conference Best Paper Track' Invited Paper 2016
  17. IBM Faculty Award 2015
  18. Paper on MathCheck conjecture verifier selected for the JAR Journal Special Issue on Best Papers at CADE 2015
  19. Paper on Z3str2 String Solver selected for FMSD Journal Special Issue on the Best Papers at CAV 2015
  20. Best Paper Award at Software Product Lines Conference 2015 (SPLC 2015)
  21. Paper titled "Impact of Community Structure on SAT Solver Performance" judged best student paper at SAT 2014
  22. STP solver ranked second at the annual SMTCOMP competition 2014 (bit-vector category)
  23. Google Faculty Research Award 2013 (Only 6 winners worldwide in software engineering in 2013)
  24. Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013 Invitee
  25. Google Faculty Research Award 2011 (Only 9 winners worldwide in software engineering in 2011)
  26. STP solver ranked second at the annual SMTCOMP competition 2011 (bit-vector category)
  27. STP solver ranked first at the annual SMTCOMP competition 2010 (bit-vector category)
  28. ACM Distinguished SIGSOFT Paper Award 2009 (for the HAMPI string solver paper)
  29. Ten-year most influential paper citation at DATE 2008 (Best paper in 10 years at the DATE conference)
  30. STP solver ranked first at the annual SMTCOMP competition 2006 (bit-vector category)