2025

• Appointed as President (2025-2026) of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association. 

2023-2024

• Appointed as IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2023-2024. 

• Appointed as President-elect (2023-2024) of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association. 

• Listed as World’s Top 2% Scientist Ranking in the field of Acoustics.

2022

• Awarded the Certificate of Merit by IEEE Signal Processing Society for dedication and leadership the 2022 IEEE international Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

• Listed as World’s Top 2% Scientist Ranking in the field of Acoustics.

2021

• Listed as World’s Top 2% Scientist Ranking in the field of Acoustics.

• Paper published in Nature Scientific Report is one of the top 100 most downloadable in 2020. 

• The Team won the Judges' award and Second place in the Task 3 category (Sound Event Localization and Detection with Directional Interference) of DCASE2021 Challenge. 

2020

• Smart Nation Research Project on “Audio Intelligence Noise Monitoring in Edge-Cloud Architecture” has been selected as one of the 10 finalists in the 2020 worldwide Amazon Web Services City on the Cloud Challenge

2019

• Awarded the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal, Outstanding Reviewer Award for maintain the prestige of ICASSP 2019 through Outstanding Expert Reviews. 

• Spatial Audio Team won the Best Technical Demonstration Award in the 2019 International Conference on Headphones Technology, San Francisco, USA, 27-29 Aug 2019. 

2017

• Won the APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award 2017 for a journal paper on “Recent Advances on Active Noise Control: Open Issues and Innovative Applications”. 

• Elected as the Vice-President of the Institutional relations and Education Program in the same organization (2017-2019).

2016

• Won the Outstanding Editorial Board Service Award (2016) from the IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

2014

• Winner of the Academic Category of the National Instruments 2014 Engineering Impact Award (ASEAN Region) for a project on “Noisy Vehicle Surveillance Camera (NoivelCam) System: An Innovative Solution to Urban Traffic Noise Problem.”

• Elected as member of the Board of Governor of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association.

2013

• Paper on “Steerable parametric loudspeaker with preprocessing methods,” in Proc. of International Conference on Acoustic (ICA 2013), Montreal, Canada, 2-7 Jun 2013, won the “Best paper in the Signal Processing in Acoustic categories.” 

2012

• Elected as Fellow of Audio Engineer Society (2012). Citation: "For contribution to Signal Processing, Education, and Research Leadership in the field of Audio Engineering."

• Elected as Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Citation: “For contributions to Signal Processing Education and Research.”

2011

• Won the “Best of Show (Blue Ribbon Award)” for project on “Immersive 3D Sound” in the TechVenture’s Innovation Awards held at The Sands Expo and Convention Centre .”

2009

• Won the Excellent Award for research project on “Augmented Audio System” in International Exhibition Contest on Digital Signal Processing Creative Design, held in Taiwan.

2006

• Won the 2nd prize for research project on “Motion JPEG Compatible Surveillance System” International Exhibition Contest on Digital Signal Processing Creative Design, held in Taiwan”

2004

• Won the College of Engineering Gold Award 2004 for the project on Audio Beam System.

2001

• Received the Institute of Engineer Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2001 for the project on Audio Beam . Citation: “In recognition to the outstanding engineering contribution on the Audio Beam System.

1999

• Tan Chin Tuan Research Fellowship to the Centre for Audio Research and Engineering, University of Essex, UK to conduct Spatial Audio Research.

1998

• 1st runner up in the Worldwide Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge held in Seattle, USA; and champion in the Asia region. The winning project is on the virtual surround sound system. ”

1992

• Awarded the best postgraduate research project, University of Strathclyde, UK

1990

• Awarded University of Strathclyde (UK) Postgraduate Research Scholarship 1990-1993.