Spotlight on Alumni

The Spotlight on Alumni celebrates the remarkable achievements and significant news related to our CSE graduates who continue to excel and make an impact across academia, industry, and research globally. Each year, HKUST CSE alumni distinguish themselves through groundbreaking innovations, prestigious awards, and leadership in their respective fields, reflecting the excellence and dedication of our community.

2025

CSE Alumnus, Lee Tsz Fung, Recognized with Greater Bay Area Entrepreneur Award 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 CSE Alumnus Prof. Jiangchuan Liu Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2025) Prof. Dit-Yan Yeung and Team Awarded Test of Time Award at KDD 2025 SENG PhD Research Excellence Awards Recognize Achievements of Dr. Pingchuan Ma, Dr. Haotian Li and Dr. Tianqing Fang Dr. Shuai Wang and Team Awarded Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Security and Privacy 2025 The CSE Best PhD Dissertation Award for 2023/24 Dr. Jialun Cao Receives ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award

2024

HKUST CSE Paper Won SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ISSTA The CSE Best PhD Dissertation Award for 2022/23 PhD Student Haotian LI Won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award from the ACM CHI 2024 Conference Prof. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, His Past PhD Students and His Collaborator Obtained Prestigious Best Paper Award at ICDE 2024 for New Database Queries called Regret Queries

2023

CSE Alumni Dr. Aoyu WU Won IEEE VGTC Dissertation Award 2023 CSE Best Dissertation Award 2021-22 Recipients Announced

2022

Alumni Yuan Yuan and Hao Wang Created an Artificial Intelligence Model to Identify Parkinson's Disease CSE Alumni Dr. Huangxun CHEN and Dr. Li CHEN Won Best Paper Award from ACM SIGCOMM 2022 An Ensemble Model Being Used in CLP's Load Forecasting - Story of CSE Alumni, Mr. Binnie Yiu 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

2021

Prof. Huamin Qu and CSE PhD Alumni and Students Won Four Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards in IEEE VIS 2021 PhD Alumni Dr. Quanming Yao Selected as One of Hurun China Under 30s To Watch CSE Faculty Recognized as AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention in 2021 Prof. Shing-Chi CHEUNG and CSE PhD Alumni Received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at 43rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Dr. Shaohuai SHI, CSE PhD Alumnus Prof. Xiaowen CHU and Prof. Bo LI Received Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2021

2020

PhD Alumni Dr. Quanming YAO Named in Forbes China 30 Under 30 List under Science & Healthcare CSE Faculty and Alumni Recognized as AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars and Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention Three HKUST Computer Science & Engineering Alumni Forge Careers Overseas

2019

CSE PhD Alumni Prof. Jiangchuan LIU Elected as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering CSE PhD Student Lili WEI, CSE Alumnus Dr. Yepang LIU and Prof. Shing-Chi CHEUNG Received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award CSE PG Student Received PAKDD 2019 Best Paper Award Prof. Qian Zhang and CSE PhD Graduate Received Best Paper Award of IEEE ICC 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

2018

CSE PhD Graduate Dr. Hao WANG Awarded SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2017-18

2017

Prof. Qiang YANG and PhD Alumni Weike PAN Received ACM TiiS 2016 Best Paper Award HKUST CSE Alumni Homecoming Workshop 2017 and Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award

2016

Prof. James KWOK and former PhD graduate Prof. Jiangchuan LIU elevated to IEEE Fellow PhD Graduate Da YAN Received Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2015

2015

CSE Alumni Mr. Terence Tsang Shared His Entrepreneurship Experience of Madhead Ltd. with UG Students Prof Bo LI and CSE PhD Graduate Won Prestigious IEEE INFOCOM Test-of-Time Paper Award PhD Graduate Awarded the Prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Fellowships from NSERC PhD Graduate Yanjiao CHEN Awarded SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2014-2015

2014

PhD Graduate Awarded Prestigious 1000 Talented Youth Award

2013

PhD Graduate Nan CAO Awarded SENG PhD Research Excellence Award 2012/13

2012

CSE Graduate Dr Fangming LIU and Prof Bo LI Awarded Best Paper Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications Graduate Dr Kaishun WU Selected as the Winner of 2012 Young Scientist Award UG Graduate CHEN Qifeng Broke Hong Kong Record in Google Code Jam World Final 2012 CSE UG Graduates Awarded the Social Responsibility Award in the HKICT Awards 2012: Best Innovation and Research Award

2011

CSE Graduates CHEUNG Ka Chun, WONG Chun Yim, and YUEN Siu Hung Awarded Prize for Innovative Spirit in the Lenovo Innovative Design Competition 2011

2010

CSE Graduate James Cheng Received Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2010