The Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the recipients of its 2026 award. Professor Chen Sen from the College of Cryptology and Cyber Science at Nankai University has been honored with the 2026 ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award in recognition of his research contributions to software security. He is the first scholar from an Asia-Pacific university to receive this accolade.

The ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award is one of the most prestigious distinctions for early-career scholars in the field of software engineering. It is open to researchers within seven years of completing their doctoral studies and recognizes candidates for their originality in research, international academic influence, and practical application value of their work.

Chen Sen is currently a professor at the College of Cryptology and Cyber Science at Nankai University. In recent years, his research has focused on software security, particularly on software supply chain security. His work has earned six outstanding paper awards at top-tier international conferences classified as CCF-A.

（Edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)