2023  Best Open-Source Award, ACM Multimedia 2023 conference (CORE A*). (PhD student/Lead author Aaron Keesing)

2022  The Margaret L Bailey Science Award (with $5,000 funding towards research)

2022  Best Video Presentation Award, Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 

2019   Waikato Graduate Women Educational Trust Merit Award (with $10,000 funding towards PhD studies)

2018   University of Waikato, Doctoral Scholarship 

2019   Best Paper Award, Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS, Indonesia)

2018   Masters Study Award by Precision Driven Health 

2017   University of Waikato Postgraduate Taught Scholarship 

2009  Teaching Excellence Awards Finalist, Manukau Institute of Technology Auckland

2024 - 2025 Named Research Fellow, “Bias Mitigation in Large Language Models”, FoS SRDF, the University of Auckland.  (Total fund: $100,000)

2023 - 2024 Named Research Fellow, “Artificial Intelligence to Improve Healthcare Outcomes of Underrepresented and Indigenous Populations”, FoS RDF, the University of Auckland  (Total fund: $100,000)            

2021 - 2022 Principal Investigator, “Automating Evaluation of a Child’s Reading Literacy.” Tui Tuia | Learning Circle, and the Woolf Fisher Trust.  (Total fund: $38,988)  

2020 - 2024  Project Support (Strong AI lab) - “Natural Language Processing for QA in Indigenous Languages.” MBIE

2023 - Invited expert panellist on AI and healthcare, Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, New Zealand

2022 - 2023  Elected Committee Member, The Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association New Zealand

2018 Golden Key International Honour Society member 

2012 - 2013  The Refugee Orientation Trust, Hamilton

Program Committee co-Chairs: iiWAS 2023

Area Chair: ICLR-TinyPapers 2023

Program Committee Member: CEAI-ICDM 2023

Doctoral Chair: AusDM 2022

Reviewer: ECML-PKDD 2022, ACL 2022-, AusDM 2022-, ICLR 2023 

Sub-reviewer:  PRICAI, 2018 and AI 2018