| 2024 |
World’s Top 2% Scientists (based on c-score), Stanford University & Elsevier |
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| 2023 |
Singapore Book Awards Finalist (Top 4) in Best Young Person’s Title for Screen Smart: Growing Up in the Digital Age |
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| 2023 |
Ranked 13th in Singapore (based on D-index) in Best Social Science and Humanities Researcher, Research.com |
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| 2022 |
Top Cited Paper (with Lim et al.) for “Population anxiety and positive behaviour change during the COVID-19 epidemic: Cross-sectional surveys in Singapore, China and Italy”, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Wiley Publishing |
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| 2022 |
Most Outstanding Student Research Award (for MA supervisee S. Y. Lee) for “Can Algorithmic Misinformation Correction on Social Media Reduce Covid-19 Misinformation Spread? An experimental investigation in Singapore” [Poster], 5th Asian Conference of Criminal and Operations Psychology |
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| 2020 |
Fellow status for distinguished scholarly contributions to the field of communication, ICA |
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| 2019 |
Public Administration Medal (Silver) for outstanding efficiency, competence and industry, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore |
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| 2019 |
Outstanding Applied Communication Scholar Award, ICA |
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| 2019 |
ASCoR McQuail Award (with Lee & Ho) for best article advancing communication theory published in a peer-reviews journal in the previous two years for “Explicating problematic social network sites use: A review of concepts, theoretical frameworks, and future directions for communication theorizing”, Amsterdam School of Communication Research |
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| 2019 |
Top Faculty Paper, First Place (with Chen & Fu) for “Developing and validating the scale of parental social media mediation across child and parent samples”, Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Annual Conference |
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| 2019 |
Best Published Article (with Lee & Ho) for “Explicating problematic social network sites use: A review of concepts, theoretical frameworks, and future directions for communication theorizing”, Children, Adolescents & Media Division, International Communication Association 69th Annual Conference |
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| 2019 |
Top Dissertation (for PhD supervisee E. Lee) for “Hooked? Extending the Social Cognitive Model in Examining the Antecedents of Problematic Social Network Sites Use Among Singaporean Adolescents and Adults”, Human Communication and Technology Division, National Communication Association (NCA) |
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| 2018 |
Asia Scholar Professor, University of Melbourne |
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| 2018 |
Article of the Year, First Place (with Chen & Ho) for “A meta-analysis of factors predicting cyberbullying perpetration and victimization: From the social cognitive and media effects approach”, Communicating Science, Health, Environment & Risks Division, Association for Communication in Journalism & Mass Communication Annual Conference |
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| 2016 |
Long Service Award, NTU |
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| 2015 |
Fulbright US-ASEAN Visiting Scholar Award, US Embassy in Singapore |
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| 2015 |
Top 3 Papers Book Prize (with Hossain) for “Baseline study on current awareness on pregnancy complications, antenatal care and media use among pregnant women in Bangladesh”, International Conference on Health System Innovation |
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| 2015 |
Best Faculty Paper (with Pang et al.) for “Utilization of CSR to build organizations’ corporate image in Asia: Need for an integrative approach”, Public Relations Division, ICA 65th Annual Conference |
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| 2015 |
Urakami Foundation Award (with Yee) for “Telly Tubbies: Mediating effects of attitudes and anticipated emotions on media exposure and the intention to eat unhealthily among children in Singapore”, 12th Asian Congress of Nutrition |
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| 2015 |
Outstanding Research Award (with Hossain, Salmon, & Ling) for “Role of protection motivation theory motivators and psycho-social factors in empowering pregnant women’s antenatal care utilization: Implications for health policy in Bangladesh”, DC Health Communication Conference |
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| 2015 |
Honorable Mention Research Award (with Shin, Yee, & Wardoyo) for “An integrative parental mediation model of healthy vs. unhealthy food consumption”, DC Health Communication Conference |
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| 2015 |
Honorable Mention Research Award (with Panchapakesan) for “Psychosocial facilitators and barriers towards civic engagement through mobile for dengue prevention in Sri Lanka, India and Singapore”, DC Health Communication Conference |
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| 2015 |
Top 3 Papers Book Prize (with Hossein) for “Baseline study on current awareness on pregnancy complications, antenatal care and media use among pregnant women in Bangladesh”, International Conference on Health System Innovation |
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| 2015 |
Research Commercialization Spinoffs Award (with Fernando, Vijaykumar, Ratnayake, & Foo) for “Mo-Buzz: Socially-mediated system for vector-borne diseases surveillance engagement”, NTUitive and Institute for Media Innovation |
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| 2014 |
Ogilvy Foundation International Award for academic leadership, Ogilvy Foundation, New York |
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| 2014 |
Neo Ubimedia MindTrek Awards (NUMA), Honorable Mention for “Sensing environment through mobile: A personalized wearable obstacle detection system for visually impaired people”, MindTrek 2014 |
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| 2014 |
Top Paper Award (with Yeo & Hong) for “The effects of regulatory fit and presentation order of health messages in countering unhealthy food advertising’s influence on attitudes and intentions to eat healthily”, Health Communication Division, ICA 63rd Annual Conference |
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| 2013 |
Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation Award (Shortlisted) for innovative ICT applications-solutions developed in Singapore for “My Pet Fitness Mobile Application” |
| 2012 |
Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) Supervision, Silver Award, NTU |
| 2011 |
Top Paper Award (with Li) for “Impact of visual and social cues on exercise attitudes and behaviour of overweight children playing an exergame”, Games Division, ICA 61st Annual Conference |
| 2011 |
Amanda L. Kundrat Health Communication Thesis of the Year Award (for MA supervisee M. Wijaya) for “Influencing Children’s Food Consumption: Impact of Message Framing and Tailoring on Efficacy and Intention”, Health Communication Division, ICA 61st Annual Conference |
| 2011 |
URECA Supervision, Platinum Award, NTU |
| 2010 |
Top Paper Award (with Tay, Agatha, & Pang) for “Crisis preparedness versus paranoia: Testing the crisis message processing model on the effects of over communication of crisis preparedness messages by governments”, Public Relations Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference |
| 2010 |
URECA Supervision, Silver Award, NTU |
| 2009 |
Sumitomo Research Award, The Sumitomo Foundation |
| 2009 |
URECA Supervision, Gold Award, NTU |
| 2008 |
URECA Supervision, Platinum Award, NTU |
| 2008 |
Teaching Excellence Award (Nominated), NTU |
| 2007 |
Research Outstanding Research Award Recognition, NTU |
| 2005 |
Best Paper Award, Finalist for “Examining adolescent dieting behavior: A protection motivation theory communication perspective”, American Marketing Association’s Public Policy and Marketing Annual Conference |
| 2004 |
Outstanding Educator Award, NUS |
| 2003 |
Outstanding Educator Award (Shortlisted), NUS |
| 1989 |
Marketing Institute of Singapore Award (Student) |