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Full List of Awards

  1. VLDB2026: Distinguished Associate Editor (provided by VLDB 2026), 2026

  2. IJCAI 2026 Certificate of Appreciation (Area Chair) (provided by IJCAI 2026), 2026

  3. VLDB2025: Distinguished Associate Editor (provided by VLDB 2025), 2025

  4. IJCAI 2025 Certificate of Appreciation (Area Chair) (provided by IJCAI 2025), 2025

  5. KDD 2025 Outstanding Reviewer (provided by KDD 2025), 2025

  6. MDM 2024 Best Paper Award (provided by MDM 2024), 2024

  7. ICDE 2024 Best Paper Award (provided by ICDE 2024), 2024

  8. Outstanding Meta-Reviewer Award for ICDE 2024 (provided by ICDE 2024), 2024

  9. UROP Faculty Research Award (Second Runner-up) (provided by HKUST), 2023

  10. Top 2% of Scientists on Stanford List (provided by Elsevier BV), 2022

  11. VLDB2022: Distinguished Reviewer (provided by VLDB2022), 2022

  12. Best Teaching Award of MSc Program in Information Technology (2020-2021) (provided by HKUST), 2022

  13. Best Teaching Award of MSc Program in Big Data Technology (2020-2021) (provided by HKUST), 2021

  14. CIKM2021: Best Reviewer Award (provided by CIKM2021), 2021

  15. IJCAI2021: Appreciation Card of Senior Program Committee Member (provided by IJCAI2021), 2021

  16. ICONIP2020: Certificate of Appreciation (provided by ICONIP2020), 2021

  17. Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching 2020 (provided by HKUST), 2020

  18. School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award (provided by HKUST), 2020

  19. Best Paper Candidate in SIGMOD 2020 (out of 123 accepted papers), 2020

  20. Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2019 – Honorary Mention (provided by HKUST), 2020

  21. Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2016 – Honorary Mention (provided by HKUST), 2017

  22. The ICDT 2017 Best Newcomer Award (provided by ICDT 2017), 2017

  23. School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award, (provided by HKUST), 2016

  24. UROP Faculty Research Award (provided by HKUST), 2015

  25. Certificate of Appreciation for Leadership and Service as an IEEE Chapter Chair, 2014

  26. Best Paper Candidate in SDM 2014 (8 out of 60 accepted papers (13.33%)), 2014

  27. KDD 2012 Outstanding Organizing Committee Award (provided by ACM KDD 2012), 2012

  28. Best Paper Candidate in IEEE ICDE 2011 (8 out of 98 accepted papers (8.16%)), 2011

  29. CIKM 2009 Outstanding Service Award (provided by ACM CIKM 2009), 2009

  30. First-runner-up of IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter FYP and PG Paper Competition 2008 (HK$1000) (provided by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter), 2008

  31. PCCW Foundation Scholarship (HK$15,000)(provided by the Pacific Century CyberWorks Foundation), 2007-2008

  32. Second-runner-up of IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter FYP and PG Paper Competition 2007 (HK$500) (provided by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter), 2007

  33. Excellent Teaching Assistant (TA) of CSE (Introduction to Database Systems), 2006-2007 (First Term)

  34. Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship (HK$30,000) (provided by Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Council), 2006-2007

  35. Chung Hwa Travel Service Scholarship (HK$20,000)(provided by Chung Hwa Travel Service), 2006-2007

  36. SIGKDD 2006 Student Travel Award (US$600)(provided by IBM Research), 2006

  37. Excellent Teaching Assistant (TA) of CSE (Advanced Topics in Database Systems), 2005-2006 (Second Term)

  38. Excellent Teaching Assistant (TA) of CSE (Introduction to Database Systems), 2005-2006 (First Term)

  39. PCCW Foundation Scholarship (HK$15,000)(provided by the Pacific Century CyberWorks Foundation), 2005-2006

  40. 5th ACM Postgraduate Research Day Merit Award (HK$100)(provided by ACM(HK)), 2004

  41. ICDM 2003 Student Travel Award (US$500)(provided by IBM Research), 2003

  42. Graduate Studentship (provided by the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2002-2004 (Consecutive Two Years) and 2005-2008 (Consecutive Three Years)

  43. First Honour (Computer Science) (provided by the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2002

  44. Swire Scholarship (HK$36,000+HK$36,000) (provided by the John Swire and Sons), 2000-2002 (Consecutive Two Years)

  45. Dean's List (Computer Science) (provided by the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 1999-2002 (Consecutive Three Years)

  46. Academic Subject Prize (i.e., the top student) in Physics (provided by Immaculate Heart of Marry College (IHMC)), 1998-1999

  47. Academic Subject Prize (i.e., the top student) in Pure Mathematics (provided by Immaculate Heart of Marry College (IHMC)), 1998-1999

  48. Academic Subject Prize (i.e., the top student) in Mathematics (provided by Immaculate Heart of Marry College (IHMC)), 1996-1997

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