Awards

  • CityU:
    • 2023, Silver Medal in the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
    • 2023, The championship (Postgraduate Session) in the IET Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition (YPEC 2023), co-supervised with Dr. Liang Dong
    • 2022, Outstanding Project in CCF-Tencent Open Fund (as PI)
    • 2022, ICDM 2022 Best-ranked Papers Award
    • 2022, The Gold Medal and Top 10 best innovation award in the 7th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN 2022), co-supervised with Dr. Liang Dong
    • 2022, The Microsoft Outstanding AI Influencer Award with Grand Prizes (US$13,000) in the Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities, co-supervised with Prof. S Joe QIN
    • 2022, The 3rd place in the 3rd Shandong Province Data Application Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Carbon Neutral Competition track), co-supervised with Prof. S Joe QIN
    • 2021, ICDM 2021 Best-ranked Papers Award
  • MSU:
    • 2021, Nomination for Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award (one per institution)
    • 2021, Global Top 100 Chinese New Stars in Artificial Intelligence (Top 25 in Data Mining)
    • 2021, MSU Dissertation Completion Fellowship (as PI)
    • 2021, WWW 2021 Student Scholarship Award
    • 2021, AAAI 2021 Student Travel Award
    • 2020, CIKM 2020 Student Travel Award
    • 2020, KDD 2020 Student Travel Award
    • 2019, KDD 2019 Student Travel Award
    • 2018, Criteo Faculty Research Award (Co-I, based on my research)
    • 2018, RecSys 2018 Student Travel Award
    • 2018, KDD 2018 Student Travel Award
    • 2018, SDM 2018 Student Travel Award
    • 2018, Bytedance Research Collaboration Award (Co-I, based on my research)
    • 2017, CIKM 2017 Student Travel Award
  • USTC:
    • 2018, Outstanding Master's Thesis Award (Anhui Computer Federation, Top 15 in Anhui Province)
    • 2017, Outstanding Graduate Award of USTC
    • 2016, National Scholarship for Graduate Students of China (Highest National Scholarship)
    • 2016, Graduate Student First-class Academic Scholarship
    • 2015, Graduate Student First-class Academic Scholarship
    • 2014, Graduate Student First-class Academic Scholarship
  • UESTC:
    • 2014, Outstanding Graduation Thesis (1% in university, 1/205 in department)
    • 2014, Outstanding Graduate Award of UESTC
    • 2013, Ginkgo Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund (as PI, outstanding completed project)
    • 2012, First Prize of Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling of China (Sichuan)
    • 2012, First Prize of Mathematical Contest in Modeling (3/200, only freshman team)
    • 2012, Ginkgo Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund (as Co-I, outstanding completed project)
    • 2011, Futong Scholarship (3/600)