Student Achievements

2025

CSE PhD Graduates Dr. Qingyong HU and Dr. Yuxuan ZHOU (under the supervision of Prof. Qian Zhang) Awarded the ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award at the UbiComp/ISWC Mr. Zhongjie Li Receives Prestigious Ant InTech Technology Scholarship for Outstanding AI Research Best UGTA & PGTA Awards and Academic Excellence Scholarship for 2024-25 CSE students Awarded HKIE Scholarships 2024/2025 and 2023/2024 HKUST Firebird Team Members Win Championship and First Runner-up in the Bay Area Cup for the Hong Kong Macao Region CSE PhD Student Wenxue LI (Advised by Prof. Kai CHEN) Received ACM SIGCOMM'25 Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention Firebird Cybersecurity Team Clinches Championship in IDFC 2025 Competition CSE Students Shine at the Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Ceremony The CSE Best PhD Dissertation Award for 2023/24 HKUST Firebird Team Members Won HKCERT Capture the Flag Challenge 2024 HKUST Firebird members achieved runner-up positions at the 8th PwC Hack A Day - Capture The Flag Competition HKUST Firebird Team Members Won Yangcheng Cup Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Cybersecurity Competition

2024

HKUST Team Shines at Huawei ICT Competition CSE Students Win Second Prize at the 4th China Mobile Wutong Cup Big Data Innovation Competition Professor Huamin Qu and PhD Student Kento Shigyo Received Honourable Mention Award at ACM Multimedia 2024 CSE Students YU Yue and SHEN Leixian Received IEEE VIS Best Short Paper Award Dr. Yangqiu Song, PhD Student Wei Fan, and Haoran Li Received Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024 Dr. Lionel Parreaux and Dr. Amir Goharshady Receive Distinguished Paper Awards at OOPSLA 2024 Dr. Lionel Parreaux's Research on Compiler Optimization Received the Distinguished Paper Award at ICFP 2024 Two CSE students Awarded HKIE Scholarships 2023/2024 Best UGTA & PGTA Awards and Academic Excellence Scholarship for 2023-24 Prof. Raymond Wong and His PhD Student Yinzhao YAN Obtained Prestigious Best Paper Award at MDM 2024 for Shortest Path Queries on Weighted Terrain Surfaces The CSE Best PhD Dissertation Award for 2022/23 PhD Student PI Renjie Named 2024 Apple Scholar in AI and Machine Learning PhD Student Hitarth Singh and Dr. Harshit Motwani Won the IEEE Computer Society Lance Stafford Larson Best Paper Award PhD Student Haotian LI Won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award from the ACM CHI 2024 Conference PhD Student Hao Ling Wins Prestigious Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2024 for Breakthrough in Memory Sanitization Technology ACM Programming Team Excels in ICPC Asia Regional and Final Contests Firebird CTF Team Clinches Championship at Capture the Flag Contest 2023

2023

Dr. Lionel Parreaux and MPhil Student Andong Fan Honored with the Distinguished Artifact Award at ECOOP 2023 The CSE Firebird Cybersecurity Team Wins Championship in the Cyber Range Competition 2023 (Hong Kong & Macau District) HKUST CSE Paper Won SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA The Firebird CTF Teams Win the 1st and 2nd Runner-up in the PwC Hack A Day Cybersecurity Competition 2023 Dr. Wei Wang and PhD student Suyi Li Won the Best Paper Award from ACM SoCC 2023 PhD Student LI Haotian Awarded 2023 Style3D Graduate Fellowship CSE Best UGTA Award for 2022/23 Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2022-23) UG Students Mohammad Sufian and Lam Ho Wai Received the InnoTech Scholarship PhD Student DONG Wei Received the SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2022-23 CSE Best Dissertation Award 2021-22 Recipients Announced PhD Student LIN Yong Received Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship PG Student Peiyan Zhang Awarded the Best Paper Award-Honorable Mention in the 16th ACM International WSDM Conference UG Student Leung Ka Chun Wesley Awarded the IET Prize 2022 The Firebird CTF Teams Win 3 Awards in the HKCERT CTF 2022 Competition

2022

The Firebird CTF Teams Win the 1st and 2nd Runner-up in the PwC Hackaday CTF Competition 2022 Dr. Charles Zhang's Research Group Received ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2022 PhD Candidate Mr. Wai TONG Received the VIS 2022 Honorable Mention Award Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2021-22) CSE Best UGTA Award for 2021/22 Winners of the CSE Big Idea Challenge 2022 PhD Student Li Haotian Won the Prestigious 2022 Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) PhD Fellowship PhD Student Yehong Xu Received Best Paper Award at 2022 Australasian Database Conference Ph.D. Student YUAN Linping Received Style3D Graduate Fellowship Prof. Lei CHEN and His Students Received the Best Regular Research Paper at 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases CSE Programming Team Won the Championship in ACM-HK Programming Contest 2022 Prof. Huamin QU and PhD students Haotian LI, Aoyu WU and Huan WEI, and PhD graduate Yong WANG Received Honourable Mention Award at CHI 2022 CSE Students Received the Silver Award and Special Mention of HKUST President's Cup 2022 HKUST Students Received Bronze Award at Huawei ICT Competition Hong Kong SAR 2021-2022 Students from CSE Firebird CTF Team, the COMP 4901N and COMP 4901P Courses Received Gold and Bronze Award at Hong Kong Cyber Security New Generation Capture The Flag Challenge 2021

2021

Prof. Huamin Qu and CSE PhD Alumni and Students Won Four Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards in IEEE VIS 2021 PhD Student Wu Aoyu Received Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Dr. Qifeng Chen and MPhil Student Patrick Wan Received Best Paper Award at FTL-IJCAI 2021 Dr. Yangqiu Song and PhD Student Huiru Xiao Received Outstanding Paper Award at AKBC 2021 PhD Student Tony Chi Wing Mok Awarded First Place in MICCAI Learn2Reg 2021 Challenge Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2020-21) MPhil Student Ho Kei CHENG Awarded the Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship 2021/22 Dr. Wei WANG, Prof. Bo LI, CSE PG Students Received the Best Paper Runner Up Award of IEEE ICDCS 2021 FYP Supervised by Prof. Gary CHAN Received Silver Award of ASM Technology Award 2021 CSE Undergraduate Student Xuanchi REN Awarded First Runner-up and Best Poster Award in Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award 2021 FYP Supervised by Dr. Desmond TSOI Bestowed Multiple Awards in HKUST President's Cup 2021

2020

Members of Firebird CTF Team Won 1st Runner Up and 2nd Runner Up at PwC HackaDay 2020 Members of the Firebird CTF Team Received Champion at the HKCERT Hong Kong Cyber Security New Generation Capture the Flag Challenge 2020 Competition PhD Student Tony Chi Wing Mok Awarded First Place in MICCAI Learn2Reg 2020 Challenge Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2019-20) FYP Supervised by Dr. Desmond TSOI Received Gold Award of HKUST President's Cup 2020

2019

Lip Reading Project Supervised by Dr. Brian MAK Awarded Winner in IET PATW Global Final 2019 Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2018-19) PhD Student Hongming ZHANG Received 2019 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award CSE UG Student Padmanabhan KRISHNAMURTHY Joined HKU Team and Won 1st Runner-up at Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 CSE Students Receiving Awards from the 16th Final Year Project Competition and the 13th Postgraduate Paper Contest CSE FYP Project Received Bronze Award in the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region IT Project Competition 2019 CSE PhD Student Lili WEI, CSE Alumnus Dr. Yepang LIU and Prof. Shing-Chi CHEUNG Received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award Firebird CTF Team Won Championship of PwC Hackaday 2019 CSE UG Students Won 1st Runner Up in the HKUST Business School and China Everbright Bank Cybersecurity Competition CSE PG Student Received PAKDD 2019 Best Paper Award Project Supervised by Dr. Brian Mak Awarded Winner of HKUST President's Cup 2019 Tse Cheuk Ng Tai Scholarship 2019 CSE PG Students Awarded Student Innovation Gold Award in HKICT Awards 2019 CSE PhD Students Gang FAN, Qingkai SHI, CSE Alumnus Dr. Rongxin WU, Dr. Xiao XIAO, Dr. Jingguo ZHOU and Dr. Charles ZHANG Received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Engineering Student Team Crowned Champion at Smart Warehouse Hackathon CSE PhD Students Awarded Champion in POLARDB Database Performance Challenge

2018

Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2017-18) PhD Student Lili WEI Awarded Google PhD Fellowship and Microsoft Research Asia PhD Fellowship Awards in 2018 FYP Project of CSE, CBE and CPEG Students Awarded Champion in HKIE Environmental Division Prize for Best Final Year Environmental Project 2017/2018 Mr and Mrs Poon Kei Chak Met with Awardees of "Mr & Mrs Poon Kuen Seng Memorial Scholarships" CSE PhD Students Awarded Champion in Alibaba Middleware Competition Integrated FYP of CSE and CBE students won second runner up in YPEC 2018 FYP Co-supervised by Dr. Desmond TSOI and Dr. Frank LAM Won the Gold Award of 2018 President's Cup CSE MPhil Student Received Grand and Gold Award of ICT Award 2018 Student Innovation Category

2017

Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2016-17) Firebird CTF Team Won 2nd Place in PwC Hackaday 2017 CSE MPhil Student Awarded First Prize in Challenge Cup National Competition - Hong Kong Regional Final CSE PG Students Awarded First Runner-up in the Global AI Hackathon Competition

2016

HKUST-MSRA Cup advocates application of AI among college students Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2015-16) CSE UG Kathleen Sucipto, FYT student of Prof. Pan Hui, has her paper accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2017 PhD student Li CHEN Won the 2016 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award Quanming YAO and Hong ZHANG as Google's Global PhD Fellows 2016 Prof Shing-Chi CHEUNG, Dr. Yepang LIU, and PhD student Lili WEI received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Project Supervised by Dr Brian MAK Won the Gold Award of 2016 President's Cup Mobile Application Design Contest 2015-2016

2015

PhD Students Awarded 2015 The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship CSE PhD students Rongxin Wu and Xiao Xiao publish the first POPL paper from Hong Kong universities UG Students Received the Champion in the Robocon 2015 (Hong Kong Domestics Competition) UG Students Won Top Awards in the MATE International ROV Competition 2015 Dr Ke YI and PG Student Lu WANG Awarded the Best Demonstration Award in SIGMOD 2015 Project Supervised by Dr Brian MAK Won the 2015 President's Cup Prof Qian ZHANG and PhD Students Received Best Video Award and Best Paper Award Runner-up in ACM MobiSys 2015 Dr Kai CHEN and PGs Featured in Top System Conference USENIX NSDI for the First Time in Hong Kong Project Supervised by Dr David ROSSITER Won the Gold Award of the 2015 President's Cup

2014

Article by PhD Student Featured in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2013-14) CSE PGs Awarded ACM VLDB 2014 Excellent Demonstration Award UGs Won Silver Award and Best Practical Value Award in China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Competition 2014 Tse Cheuk Ng Tai Prizes PhD Students Awarded 2014 Google Hong Kong Anita Borg Scholarship UG Student Bestowed Silver Award in 2014 President's Cup PhD Student Awarded 2013 Google Hong Kong Anita Borg Scholarship

2013

Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2012-13) Student Ambassadors Program 2013 Three CSE UGs Bestowed the 2013 Academic Achievement Medal CSE FYP Team Won a Silver Award at the China Pan-Pearl River Delta University IT Project Competition CSE Programming Team Won the Championship in ACM-HK Programming Contest 2013 PhD Students Wei BI and Yanjiao CHEN Awarded Prestigious Google Fellowship PhD Student Jeff HUANG Won SIGPLAN PLDI Distinguished Paper Award 2013 UG Students Won the 1st Runner-up in Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Hong Kong IT FYP Competition 2013 2013 SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award CSE Graphics paper selected as Notable Paper by ACM Computing Reviews 2012 CSE Students Received Four Accolades in HKICT Awards 2013 2013 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Awards CSE Programming Team Won 3rd Prize at IBM DB2 DB Contest 2013 Solomon Systech Scholarships 2012/13 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2012

2012

TPAMI-12 Paper Highlighted by A*Star Research, Singapore Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2011-12) Two Championships in Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012 PhD Student ZHU Yin Awarded Prestigious Google Fellowship PhD Candidate Shaoming HUANG won the 1st Place in the Student Research Competition of the ACM SIGPLAN PLDI Conference 2012 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award The HKUST LAviNET Team Awarded the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2012: Best Innovation & Research Award

2011

CSE PhD Dr Yu Zhang Awarded SENG PhD Research Excellence Award CSE PG Candidates Nathan LIU, Bin CAO, Luheng HE, and Prof. Qiang YANG Won 3rd Place in 2011 ACM KDDCUP Challenge Undergraduates CHEUNG Ka Chun, WONG Chun Tim, and YUEN Siu Hung Awarded Hong Kong ITF ICT Final Year Scholarship 2010-2011 HKUST Students Shines for Hong Kong with Two International Awards in ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest CSE Programming Team Won the Championship in the ACM-HK Programming Contest 2011 Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2010-11) Computer Science Students LEUNG Chun Yin and LEUNG Lok Ping Won the Design Elegance Award in the International ROV Competition Undergraduate FONG Fu Shing Selected for Student Enrichment Program Award 2010-2011 Computer Science Student CHAN Yun-Kwan Emprise Won the 2011 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award Computer Science Postgraduate Student YAN Da Won the Best Paper Award from DASFAA 2011 Twin Wins for Computer Science Students at IBM DB2 UDB Inter-University Programming Contest 2011

2010

Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program 2010 HKUST CSE Students Led the Team Winning Silver Award at the 1st Shenzhen-Hong Kong University Students Creative Plan Championship Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2009-10) PhD Student Gabriel KEUNG Received Best Paper Award IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program 2010/2011 MPhil Student won the 2nd place at the 4th Signal Processing Postgraduate Forum Undergraduate WANG Bo won First Prize at International English Contest

2009

Programming Team Wins First Prize in 2009 ACM Asia Contest Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program 2009 Computer Science Student Won IEEE Final Year Project Competition CSE Postgraduate Xiang LIAN Won the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers 2009 Postgraduate Student Mo LI Won Best Research Award at ACM Hong Kong Research and Career Day 2009 CSE Postgraduate awarded the HKTIIT Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarship Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition 2009 Award Presentation of Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2008-09) Programming Teams Won HKUST the Champion University Award at the IBM DB2 UDB Inter-University Programming Contest 2009

2008

Programming Team Wins First Prize in ACM Asia Contest 2008 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition: 3rd Runner-up Award Presentation of Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2007-08) HKUST Faculty and Students Won 6 Prizes of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008: World Finals

2007

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program 2007 IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter PG Student Research Paper Competition 2007 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition: Third-grade Award ACM SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship Professor Samuel Chanson Scholarship and Awards (Academic Year 2006-2007) CSE Undergraduates Jialiu Lin and Kevin Keliang Zhao Got Full Scholarships to World's Top Universities IBM PhD Fellowship Program 2007/2008

2006

Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award 2006 Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006: eYouth Certificate of Merit The Top 48 in Algorithm Competition: Topcoder Collegiate Challenge (TCCC) 2006 Microsoft Fellowship 2006 List of Scholarship Awardees for 2005/2006 Academic Year Microsoft Server Championships 2006 The Best Presentation Award: The 7th ACM Postgraduate Research Day Solomon Systech Scholarships 2006 Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships 2005/06

2005

2005 The Golden Penguin Greater China Open Source Software Competition IBM PhD Fellowship Program 2005/06 ACM KDD-CUP 2005 Data Mining Contest: Champion Continue Success in the ACM HK Collegiate Programming Contest List of Scholarship Awardees for 2004/2005 Academic Year

2004

ACM ICPC 2004: Regional Contest, Shanghai: Bronze Prize ACM ICPC 2004: Regional Contest, Manila: 4th Place Microsoft Fellowship 2004 World Engineer Congress 2004: Second Prize ACM KDD-CUP 2004 Data Mining Contest: Champion YDC Entrepreneurs Challenge 2004: 2nd Runner-up IiTEC 2004: The Best Project Idea Award ACM(HK) Local Programming Contest 2004: Champion Hang Seng Innovative Design Competition 2004: Champion Microsoft Imagine Cup 2004: 4th Runner-up Microsoft Fellowship Program 2003

2003

Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2003 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2004 Academic Achievement Award 2003 MMCDC 2003: Gold Award IiTEC 2003: Best Internet Application Award

2002

HKIS Young Scientist Award 2002 HKUST Students Won Microsoft Fellowship
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