ProfessorXiao Liu

Nomination Award for Outstanding Young Scientists, ACM and CCF (Shanghai Chapter), 2014.

2022 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Sustainability (in recognition of our Artificial Intelligence Competition for Sustainable Development Goals organised for international high-school students)

Outstanding Service as Proceedings Chair, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2021

1st Prize, 2021 China Service, Project title "EdgeWorkflow - One-Click to Deploy Your Workflow Application to the Edge", project team formed by students from Deakin-AHU ISEC Lab, 2021

School of IT staff award for SIT International Team, Excellence in enriching international student experience through online engagement activities, 2021.

ASE2020 Distinguished LBR Paper Award

Best Reviewers for 2019, Journal of Systems and Software

Best Student Paper Award, 19th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2019), 2019.

Best Reviewers for 2018, Journal of Systems and Software

School of IT staff award for excellence in advancing international partnerships, Deakin University, 2017.

Finalist, ACAA - Young Australia China Alumni of the Year Award, 2014.

Best Student Paper, 2014 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data, 2014.

Second Prize, National Contest for Cloud Computing Application, Ministry of Education, China, 2015.

Microsoft Pioneer Award for Teaching Cloud Computing, 2014.

2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2010.

International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), Australia Government, 2007-2010.

Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Awards (SUPRA), Swinburne University of Technology, 2007-2010.

Best PhD Thesis Award, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, 2011.

Best Paper Award (IEEE ICWS2026) - LLMFlowGO: An LLM-Driven System for Workflow Generation and Optimization

Top Cited Article 2025 (Wiley), Software: Practice and Experience, with paper titled "Large language model ChatGPT versus small deep learning models for self-admitted technical debt detection: Why not together?"

ACM Distinguished Paper Award Nominee at CHASE2026 with paper titled “Beyond Code: Empirical Insights into How Team Dynamics Influence OSS Project Selection”.

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, DS-MAE: Dual-Siamese Masked Autoencoders for Point Cloud Analysis, 13th International Conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM2025), Hong Kong, April 2025.

2024 Outstanding Editor Award, Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (HCIN)

Editorial Board Member, Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, https://www.springer.com/journal/44230