Awards/Prizes

Research Awards and Prizes


  • C4C- Como for Children Competition, Best Interaction Design for Children Award (3 Awarded), Italy 2009.
  • Laval Revolution Award, (Given for Best Virtual Reality Inventions, approximately 10 selected each year) – France 2009
  • Winner of The Integrated Art Competition. Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA) – Singapore 2008
  • 3rd Prize in Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2008
  • Young Global Leader 2008 from World Ecomomic Forum. This honour is bestowed each year by the World Economic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top young leaders from around the world for the professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world – 2008
  • First Prize Winner of Awards “Creativity of Warm”, 8th International University Creative-in-Action Contest 2007” held in I-Shou University – Taiwan, December 2008
  • GENIUS MEDAL of Hungarian Republic 2008
  • The Winners of the MobileHCI 2007 Demo Category 09 – 2007
  • Creativity of Warm award from 8th International University Creative-in-Action Contest 2007
  • Honorary Mentions at the Vido 8.0 art and artificial competition 2006
  • Wired NextFest Worlds Top 100 Inventions (twice) 2005
  • “Young Researcher Award in games”, Imagina 2005
  • Winner of Microsoft Research Asia Award for Gaming and Graphics – 2005
  • Telefonica International Art Award 2005
  • World Technology Network, Life Time Fellows Adrian Cheok and Zhou Zhi Ying 2005
  • Art & Artificial Life International Competition Vida 8.0 competition in Madrid, MENCIONES ESPECIALES Award for ”Poultry Internet” – 2005
  • Award of Fellow in Education, World Technology Network. Awarded October 8, 2004, in San Francisco, at the World Technology Awards gala ceremony at San Francisco City Hall held in association with Nasdaq, Microsoft, TIME magazine, Science magazine, and CNN. Only five (5) people in the world, out of the global selection process were selected as Fellow in the Category of Education. – 2004
  • First prize Murcia Joven 2004. Youth artist from Murcia, Spain
  • Honorary Mention Best Artistic Projects Prize. Cyberart 04. Bilbao, Spain
  • Associate of the Arts Award, a prestigious national award, awarded by the National Arts Council, Award presented by Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts – 2004
  • Young Professional of the Year 2004, a prestigious national award, awarded by the Singapore Computer Society. Award presented by Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Art – 2004
  • Honorary Mention Best Artistic Projects Prize. Cyberart 04. Bilbao. – 2004
  • Patron of the Arts Award 2004
  • Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award, 2004
  • 2nd prize in the “Asian University Tour” category in this year’s National University Student Contest of Creativity-in-Action 2004
  • 2nd prize in the “International Idea 2 Product” competition, IT & Engineering category, Austin, USA, 2004
  • Life Time Fellow in “World Technology Award”
  • Young Professional of the Year 2004, Singapore Computer Society
  • TKK Science Award for Research: Human Pacman
  • TKK Science Award for Research: 3d-Live
  • Singapore National Young Scientist Award 2003 Winner. This prestigious award is organised by the Singapore National Academy of Science and supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. The YSA is presented to young researchers, aged 35 years or below, who are actively engaged in R&D in Singapore, and who have shown  great potential to be world-class researchers in their fields of expertise. – 2003
  • Certificate of Appreciation Award from National Heritage Board – 2003
  • Hitachi Research Fellowship 2003
  • National Young Scientist Award 2003 Winner, National Academy of Science
  • Winner of Hitachi Research Fellowship. Three months fully funded visiting Professorship to Japan. – 2003
  • International Touring Artist, National Arts Council, 2003
  • Awarded International Touring Award, National Arts Council – 2002

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