Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
Technology Awards in 2011
Best Student Paper Award, ICPR2020, Track: Computer Vision, Robotics and intelligent systems
2nd runner up, PwC HackaDay 2020
1st runner up, PwC HackaDay 2020
Champion, HKCERT Hong Kong Cyber Security New Generation Capture the Flag Challenge 2020 Competition
Gold Award for Volunteer Service (Group), Social Welfare Department of the Hong Kong SAR
Championship, the HKIE Best Final-Year Environmental Project
Best Presentation Award, ABU Robocon Festival 2020
The Special Award by Nagase Brothers Inc., ABU Robocon Festival 2020
First runner-up, ABU Robocon Festival 2020
Second Place, Science as Art Competition, 2020 Materials Research Society(MRS) Spring Meeting
Championship of HKIE Environmental Division Prize for Best Final Year Environmental Project 2018-19, HKIE
Outstanding Students Award at the Autodesk Hong Kong BIM Awards 2019
1st runner up, Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 (GGCS)
Honorable Mention, Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award for the 2018 IEEE Transactions
Honorable Mention, Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award for the 2018 IEEE Transactions
Best Paper Award, 2019 IEEE ICRA Robot Manipulation
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
Paul and May Chu Student Sportswoman Award
Championship, Robocon Hong Kong Contest 2018
Student Innovation Grand Award, Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018
Best Business Idea Award, EY Hackathon Hong Kong
Time Auction Star Volunteer Awards
Time Auction Star Volunteer Awards
All-round Champion and Safety Conscious Awards, The 16th Annual MATE International ROV Competition
Championship, Robocon Hong Kong Contest 2017
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Awards 2016-17
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Awards 2016-17
LPM Contractors Scholarship, Geotechnical Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
AECOM Prize for Best Student of the Year, Geotechnical Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
Championship, The Most Innovative Design Award and The Most Popular Design Award, The 6th Greater China Design Competition of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Hong Kong Branch
Three Second Class Awards, in Balance Group, Beacon Group and Camera Group respectively, 11th NXP Cup Intelligent Car Racing Competition (South China Region)
Certificate of Merit in Chasing Group, 11th NXP Cup Intelligent Car Racing Competition (South China Region)
First Place, Falling Walls Lab Hong Kong
Second Place, Falling Walls Lab Hong Kong
Bronze Medal, The 16th World Youth Teams Championships
Energy Efficient Design Award, “New Energy New Generation” Solar Car Competition
Silver Medal in Young Riders Class & Gold Medal in Young Riders 120cm Class, CSICH/J/Y Tehran
Fourth Place, 11th World University Equestrian Championship 2016
Arthur L Williston Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Global Youth Innovator Award, 2016 iCAN Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Award 2015-16
Grand Prize under Category I of HKIE Innovation Awards for Young Members 2016
First Prize of the Challenge Cup Theme-based Competition
Second Prize in 2015 International Contest of Applicatiosn in Nano-Micro Technologies (iCAN 2015)
Robocon Hong Kong Contest 2015, Champion
2015 MATE International ROV Competition, Overall Winner Third Place, Sharkpedo Award
2015 MATE International ROV Competition, Engineering evaluation MVP Award
JEC Outstanding Engineering Project Awards 2015, Champion
HKSTP Technopreneur Awards, Silver Award
10th Hong Kong/Asia Regional IET/MATE Underwater Robot Challenge, Champion Award in the Explorer Class
One of the Top 10 Innovators from China by Forbes
Gold Award for IoT Revolution Concept, Hong Kong U-21 Internet of Things (IoT) Awards 2014
Global Youth Innovator Award in 2015 International Contest of Application in Nano-micro Technology(iCAN) in Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
The First National Aircraft Design Competition, First Runner-up
Gold Medal Award of the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM)
HKSTPC Technopreneur Award in YDC E-Challenge 2014 organized by the Young Entrepreneurs Development Council, Gold Award
First Class Award in the Technology Development Category at the 2013 Shenzhen Science and Technology Awards
Youth Technology Achievement Award
Champion at HKIE-MI Student Project Competition 2013-14
Champion at ACM-HK Programming Contest 2013
One First Class Award, Three Second Class Awards, Two Third Class Awards in the 13th National University Students Technology Challenge Cup Competition
Engineering Evaluation Most Valuable Presenter “MVP” Award, MATE International ROV Competition 2014
Overall Champion and Championship of the Undergraduate Section, Hong Kong IET Young Professionals Exhibition and Competition 2013
Best Engineering Award, ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2013, Vietnam
International Contest of Application in Nano-Micro Technology 2014, 3rd prize
8th Freescale Smart Car Competition, South China Region, Second and Third Class Awards in Optical Group, Third Class Award in Electro-magnetic Group, Certificate of Merit in Camera Balanced Group
The IET/MATE Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge 2014, Champion Award in the Explorer Class
Robocon Hong Kong Contest 2014, Champion, 1st Runner-up Award, Best Engineering Award, Best Artistic Design Award
JEC Outstanding Engineering Project Awards, Gold Award
JEC Outstanding Engineering Project Awards, Silver Award
JEC Outstanding Engineering Project Awards, Certificates of Excellence
Fullbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award 2014-2015
Fullbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award 2014-2015
Best Mobile App Award, ACM MobiCom 2013
9th Hong Kong/Asia Regional of the MATE International ROV Competition (Explorer Class) Champion
Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships (for Postgraduate Research Students)
GE Foundation TECH Award
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Awards
Prix R. M. Quigley Award for the Best Research Paper
Prix R. M. Quigley Award for the best research paper, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
Second Runner-up, JEC Outstanding Engineering Project Award
Best Engineering Award, Robocon 2013 Hong Kong Contest
Roy To Community Service Award
HKUST President’s Cup
HKUST President's Cup
HKUST President’s Cup
HKUST President’s Cup
Ranked 12th in the Google Code Jam World Final 2012
Participated in G20 Youth Forum in Russia
2012 ACM-ICPC Asia Hatyai Regional Contest
2012 ACM-ICPC Asia Hatyai Regional Contest
Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2012
Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2012
Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2012
Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2012
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communication Society
Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2012
Championship awards at the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012
Championship awards at the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012
Google Fellowship
Championship and Best Presenter Award at the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge 2012
Gold Award at the Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association Innovation & Technology Project Competition 2012
Fullbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award
Best Student Paper Award at 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation
Best Student Paper Award at 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation
First place in the Student Research Competition at the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference
Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology
Best Paper Award in the Papers Competition 2012 Graduate Student Division of Institute of Civil Engineers Hong Kong Association
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Softward Engineering
Microsoft Research Asia Fellowhip 2012
Champion Award in the Young Engineers’Paper Competition at the Biomedical Engineering International Conference 2012; Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Awards 2012/2013
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Awards 2012/2013
School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Awards 2012/2013
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
Hong Kong Young Scientist Awards from the Hong Kong Institution of Science
Best Applied Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-XIV)
Best Paper Award from the Building and Environment journal
Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES/ISSS)
2011 Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science, Hong Kong Institutional of Science
2011 Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science, Hong Kong Institutional of Science
2011 Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science, Hong Kong Institutional of Science
2011 Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science, Hong Kong Institutional of Science
RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Junior Research Scholar Award 2011-12
Young Investigator Award, 5th World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE) World Congress on Bioengineering
Gold Award, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Hong Kong Chapter
Second Prize, Huber Technology Prize 2012
Arup Research Prize 2012
Champion, Best Student Paper Award, 12th IEEE Photonics Society Hong Kong Chapter Postgraduate Conference
Championship, Association for Computing Machinery-Hong Kong (ACM-HK) Programming Contest 2011
Championship, Association for Computing Machinery-Hong Kong (ACM-HK) Programming Contest 2011
Championship, Association for Computing Machinery-Hong Kong (ACM-HK) Programming Contest 2011
Winner of the Talent Meets Bertelsmann 2012 program
Best Presentation Award (First Prize), Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS) 2011
Best Presentation Award (First Prize), Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS) 2011
Best Presentation Award (First Prize), Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS) 2011
Best Presentation Award (First Prize), Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS) 2011
Champion at the CILTHK (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong kong) Student Day
Champion and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks’ Best Team Spirit Award, – Robocon 2008 Hong Kong Contest
Top Prize of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Competition (KDD Cup) 2005 (Association for Computing Machinery)
Top Prize of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Competition (KDD Cup) 2005 (Association for Computing Machinery)
Doctoral Dissertation Award 2005, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
Winning team of the Hong Kong Joint Tertiary Institutions Putonghua Debating Competition
Young Scientist Award 2003, Hong Kong Institution of Science
Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Excellent Young Scientist, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of 2020 National Academy of Inventors
2020 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field, Clarivate
2020 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field, Clarivate
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering 2020
2020-2024 Vice-President, The Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI)
2020 J. J. Thomson Medal for Electronics, The Institute of Engineering and Technology
Research Excellence Award for Tencent AI Lab Rhino Bird Focused Research Program, Tencent AI Lab Rhino Bird Focused Research Program
CIC BIM Achievement 2020 – Projects 2020 “Digital Twin for HKUST Campus”, Construction Industry Council
CIC BIM Achievement 2020 – Organizations 2020 “The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST BIM Lab)”, Construction Industry Council
Inductee of IEEE Visualization Academy
Progress Award Winner for 2019, Photographic Society of America
Chief Executive’s Commendation for Community Service
Chief Executive’s Commendation for Community Service
Awardee of 40 model innovators and entrepreneurs for the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone
Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) 2020, The Natural Science Foundation of China
Best Tunisian Researcher or Inventor Residing Abroad, The Republic of Tunisia
2020 Publishing Award of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
International Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering
2020 Nick Holonyak Jr Award, Optical Society of America
2020 O.Hugo Shuck Best Paper Award, American Automatic Control Council
Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second Class), 2019 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology), The Ministry of Education
Editor of Journal of Electronic Packaging, American Society of Mechanical
The Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Award for Outstanding Research in 2020
Lead editor of the Second Edition of Wastewater Biological Treatment: Principles, Modeling and Design, International Water Association
Best Paper Award (Green Communications Systems & Networks), 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Honorable Mention of Best Application Paper Award in the 2019 IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Quality and Reliability Engineering
Young Scientist of 2020, World Economic Forum
2019 Natural Science Award of Shanghai (Second Class), Shanghai Municipal People's Government
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars - 1st in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence/International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI/IJCAI) sub-field
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention - 43rd in Information Retrieval and Recommendation sub-field
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars - 3rd in Visualization sub-field
Natural Science Award (Second Class), 2019 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology), The Ministry of Education
Natural Science Award (First Class) 2019, Ministry of Education of China
The Honorary Mention, Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2019
The Honorary Mention, Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2019
Excellence Award, Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2019
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2020 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
CHI 2020 Honourable Mentions, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Best Paper Award, The 26th International Display Workshops, The Society for Information Display
General Chair, AAAI, The National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021
Chairman, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Hong Kong
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1st Runner-Up, China Institute of Communications Technology Award
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2019 Ministry of Education Award on Technological Progress (Second Class)
Best Paper Award, The 4th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2019)
Second Prize in Construction Productivity, The Hong Kong Construction Industry Council
Member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Editor for Computers and Geotechnics
2019 Membership, European Academy of Science
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Best Lightning Speaker Award, The 6th Learning with MOOCS 2019 Conference on Enhancing Workforce Diversity and Inclusion
2019 Excellent Young Scholar, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2019 Excellent Young Scholar, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Member-at-Large, The IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (IEEE SPS BoG)
2019 Class of Influential Researcher, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC)
Bright Spark Award, The International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
2020 Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA)
2019 Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) Best Working Paper Award, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Construction Industry Outstanding Young Person Award 2019, Construction Industry Council
First-Class Award in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area IT System Development Competition 2019, Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology
Distinguished Young Scientist of Engineering Frontiers, Chinese Academy of Engineering
Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
2019 Distinguished Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI)
Best Paper Award (co-authoring), The 15th IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits
M&SOM Best Operations Management Paper in Operations Research, The Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM)
Mao Yisheng Youth Award in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Education Foundation
2019 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
2019 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
2014 winner of the Calvin W. Rice Lecture Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Global Youth Innovator Award in 2015 International Contest of Application in Nano-micro Technology(iCAN) in Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Killam Prize 2015, Canada Council for the Arts
2014 INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Young Researcher Prize
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2019 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, The Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) in Natural Science category 2018, Ministry of Education
Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) in Natural Science category 2018, Ministry of Education
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: "FCM: Frequency Domain Cooperative Sensing and Multi-channel Contention for CRAHNs", in IEEE Globecom 2012
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: "deStress: Mobile and Remote Stress Monitoring, Alleviation, and Management Platform", in IEEE Globecom 2012.
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: "deStress: Mobile and Remote Stress Monitoring, Alleviation, and Management Platform", in IEEE Globecom 2012.
Second Class, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) : Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education
2019 IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation
Honorable Mention for the 2018 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award
2019 Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE)
Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award 2019, IEEE Electronics Packaging Society
2019 Jan Rajchman Prize
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Google Faculty Research Awards 2018
2018 C&C Prize, NEC C&C Foundation
Gold Award, 2018 Hong Kong Green Innovations Awards
2018 Leader of the Year in the category of "Education/Professions/Technology & Innovation", Sing Tao Newspaper Group
HKUST Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2018
2016 Impact Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Honorary Mention, HKUST Common Core Course Excellence Award 2016
Young Investigator Award
Research Excellence Award
Michael G Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching
Best Paper Award 2018, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Visionary in MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2018 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, The University of Hong Kong
2018 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement
RGC Theme-based Research Scheme 7th Round (2017/18)
2017 Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching
President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
First Prize of 2017 Hong Kong Construction Industry Council (CIC) Innovation Award
Invisible Silent Superheroes by the Institution of Civil Engineers Hong Kong Association
2017 IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award
2019 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award
Honorary Mention, HKUST Common Core Course Excellence Award 2017
US National Inventors Hall of Fame
Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2017 Telford Premium Award, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK
Prix R M Quigley Award (Honorable Mention), Canadian Geotechnical Society
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2017 Outstanding Women Professionals Award, Hong Kong Women Professional and Entrepreneurs Association
2017 SIGKDD Service Award
IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award 2017
National Innovation Pioneer Award
Honorary Mention, HKUST Common Core Course Excellence Award 2016
Honorary Mention, HKUST Common Core Course Excellence Award 2016
2017 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
Highly Cited Researcher 2016 by Thomson Reuters
Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2015-16
Teaching Awards, School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2015-16
Teaching Awards, School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2015-16
Teaching Awards, School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2015-16
2016 Impact Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Silver Prize, Sixth Bank of China (HK) FITMI “Technology Start-Up” Award
First Place in Innovation in the Cross-Strait, HK and Macao Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
First Prize in Start-up Group, “New Word Cup” First Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
IAWE Junior Award, International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE)
The 11th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award, Chinese Academy of Engineering
Second Class, 2015 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Natural Science)
Merit Award in the e-Learning Category of the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards 2015
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Young Investigator Award
Research Excellence Award
Distinguished Research Excellence Award
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 by Thomson Reuters
Michael G Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching
2014 INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Young Researcher Prize
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Highly Cited Researcher 2015
University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award
Teaching Award in School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2014-15
Distinguished Teaching Award in School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2014-15
Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association
Second Class, 2014 Shenzhen Science and Technology Award (Natural Science Category)
Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association
Honorary Membership of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
ACM SIGMOD 2015 Test of Time Award
2014 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Natural Science) Second Class
2014 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Scientific and Technological Progress) Second Class
Best Innovation (Innovative Technology) Silver Award at The Hong Kong ICT Awards
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Natural Sciences Award and first runner-up in the Hybrid Learning Category of Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education
Distinguished Research Excellence Award, HKUST School of Engineering
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 by Thomson Reuters
2014 Calvin W Rice Lecture Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Killam Prize 2015, Canada Council for the Arts
Fellow of International Association of Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures
Fellow of the Royal Society of UK
First Class Award in Natural Sciences for Research Excellence from Hubei Province
8th Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award from the IEEE Communication Society
Silver Medal at the Creation, Innovation, Technology & Research Exposition (Citrex 2014)
Gold Medal & the Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014
Telford Premium 2014 by The Institution of Civil Engineers
Academician (Technical and Environmental Sciences) of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
Member of The European Academy of Sciences and Arts for Class VI – Technical and Environmental Sciences
Fellow of the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society
Fellow of the International Society of Optics and Photonics
Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers
2014 Nick Holonyak Jr Award, Optical Society of America
Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme 2014 (Auditory and Speech Training App) GOLD Award
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Best SME ICT (CLoud Solution) Gold Award
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
Fellow of the United States Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture – The World Academy of Structural Integrity (ICF-WASI)
Second Class, 2013 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards ( Natural Science)
First Class, 2013 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Scientific and Technological Progress)
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013
First Class, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) : Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education
Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Fellow of the SPIE
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Best Mobile App Award, ACM MobiCom 2013
Prix R. M. Quigley Award for the best research paper, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
JSAP Outstanding Paper Award, The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Vice-President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Communications Society
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communication Society, Paper:"FCM: Frequency Domain Cooperative Sensing andMulti-channel Contention for CRAHNs", in IEEE Globecom 2012
Second Prize, Guangdong Province Science and Technology Award
Distinguished Research Excellence Award, HKUST School of Engineering
Research Excellence Awards, HKUST School of Engineering
Research Excellence Awards, HKUST School of Engineering
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Journal of Laboratory Automation Ten Award
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
2013 Society for Information Display (SID) Slottow-Owaki Prize
Hong Kong Young Scientist Awards from the Hong Kong Institution of Science
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: , “deStress: Mobile and Remote Stress Monitoring, Alleviation, and Management Platform”, in IEEE Globecom 2012.
“Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: , “”deStress: Mobile and Remote Stress Monitoring, Alleviation, and Management Platform””, in IEEE Globecom 2012. “
Second Class, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) : Management, Ministry of Education
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: "deStress: Mobile and Remote Stress Monitoring, Alleviation, and Management Platform", in IEEE Globecom 2012.
Best Paper Awards, IEEE Globecom 2012 organized by IEEE Communications Society, Paper: "FCM: Frequency Domain Cooperative Sensing and Multi-channel Contention for CRAHNs", in IEEE Globecom 2012
” Second Prize, The International Huber Technology Prize of Germany , “”(SANI) Process Research Project”” “
Finalist in the Group Category, The World Smart Cities Awards of Spain “(SANI) Process Research Project”
The East Asia Honour Award in Applied Research Category of the Project Innovational Award (PIA) – novel hybrid water resource system and recycling platform, International Water Association (IWA) “(SANI) Process Research Project”
The Global Grand Honour Award in Applied Research Category of the PIA – novel hybrid water resource system and recycling platform, International Water Association (IWA), “(SANI) Process Research Project”
The IWA Sustainability Specialist Group prize for innovation in the practical realization of sustainable urban water management – triple water supply system, International Water Association (IWA); “(SANI) Process Research Project”
Merit award in the Research and Development category of the Asia Pacific ICT Awards
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation
2012 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award
First Class, Electronics Information Scence and Technology Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics
Biomedical Wellness Pioneer Award at the 2013 SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing meeting
Elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
Best Paper Award from the Building and Environment journal
Elected as the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Image, Video and Multimedia Technical Committee
Elected Convener of the International Scientific Committee of the triennial Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport
Best Applied Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-XIV)
Philips Best Paper Award, International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (CEPT-HDP 2012)
Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES/ISSS)
First Class, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) : Natural Sciences Ministry of Education
First Class, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) : Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Scientific and Technological Progress Award
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
First class, Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences
First class, Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences
Selected to join the National Science and Technology Programmes Expert Database
Second Class, Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2011 Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings and Conferences, IEEE Communications Society
2011 Stephen O Rice Prize, IEEE Communications Society
2011 CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Appointed to participate in the peer review process for the German Excellence Initiative by the German Council of Science and Humanities
Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Philips Best Paper Award, International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging
Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers
Senior Research Prize, European Association for Structural Dynamics
Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award, Microsoft Research (both in 2010&2011)
President of the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society
Best Paper Award of SMTA China South Technology Conference
Outstanding Paper Award from International Conference on Electronics Packaging
Fellow of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures
The School of Engineering’s Distinguished Research Excellence Award
The School of Engineering’s Research Excellence Awards
The School of Engineering’s Research Excellence Awards
The School of Engineering’s Young Investigator Research Award
Academician of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ)
2010 First Class, Award for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences
2010 First Class, Award for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences
2010 First Class, Award for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences
Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award, Microsoft Research
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2010 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award, Prudue University
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE)
2009 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year
2009 Excellence in Achievement of World Chinese Youth Entrepreneurs Award
2009 Grand Prize (all categories) and Gold Award (Consumer Electronics), Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association Award for Outstanding Innovation and Technology Products
2010 Excellence Service Award, Production and Operations Management Society
2009 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
Vice-President of IEEE Communications Society
2009 Chang Jiang Scholar Award (Computer Science)
2009 Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications
2009 Management Science Distinguished Service Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2009 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’09)
Honorable Mention for the INFORMS SOLA-Air Products Bi-annual Dissertation Award
Chair Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Chang Jiang Scholar Program, Ministry of Education of China
2009 Outstanding Contributions Award (Overseas), China Computer Federation
2009 IBM Faculty Award
Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE)
2009 Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Transactions Best Paper Award
Outstanding IIE Publication Award
2009 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) Outstanding Service Award
Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society and ASE Group
IEEE Communications Society ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2008 Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, The Royal Academy of Engineering
Honorable Mention in the George E. Nicholson Prize at INFORMS 2008
IIE Transactions Best Paper Award – Operations 2009
President of the Asian and Australasian Association for Composite Materials (AACM)
Best Paper Award, 3rd International Conference on Communications & Networking in China (Chinacom)
Best Paper Award, 3rd International Conference on Communications & Networking in China (Chinacom)
Best Paper Award, 3rd International Conference on Communications & Networking in China (Chinacom)
Best Paper Award, 3rd International Conference on Communications & Networking in China (Chinacom)
2008 ASME EPPD (Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division) Mechanics Award
M&SOM Meritorious Service Award 2008
Management Science Distinguished Service Award 2009
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK (ICE)
Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES)
Certificate of Merit, Hong Kong RFID Awards 2008
Certificate of Merit, Hong Kong RFID Awards 2008
Vice-President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Hong Kong
Regional Vice-President of Asia, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) National Leadership Council,
Chairman and Co-Founder of Service Science, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE)
Best Paper – Honorable Mention Award, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2009
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member of the Advisory Board of Energy & Environmental Science, published by The Royal Society of Chemistry
2007 IEEE Communications Society Publications Exemplary Award
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 2008
First Prize in China’s 2007 Natural Science Awards, presented by the Ministry of Education
Fellow of Society for Information Display (SID)
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation
2008 IEEE CPMT Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
M&SOM Meritorious Service Award 2007
Best Innovation and Research (Open) Gold Award and Best Innovation and Research Grand Award, HKICT Awards 2007
Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award, ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute
R M Quigley Honorable Mention 2007
Elected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2007-08
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference – ASNA Symposium
Second Class, State Natural Science Award
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ECE Research Team Paper ranked one of the top 10 most accessed articles of the journal Liquid Crystals in 2006
Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury in New Zealand
2007 Arthur Thomas Ippen Award, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR)
Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
ECE Research Team Paper ranked one of the top 10 most accessed articles of the journal Liquid Crystals in 2006
First Class, 2007 China Higher Education of National Natural Science Award
Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering Fellow (BSE)
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Award, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
ASCE 2007 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award
Overseas and Hong Kong, Macau Young Scholars Collaborative Research Fund, National Science Foundation of China
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2007 (ASME)
Joint Research Fund for Overseas, Hong Kong and Macau Young Scholars 2006, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2007 (ASME)
Asian Young Aerosol Scientist Award, Asian Aerosol Research Assembly
Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation
Outstanding Industrial Engineer Award, Industrial Engineering of Purdue University
Ralph G Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the Society for Information Display
Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers
J James R Croes Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers
Hogentogler Award, American Society for Testing and Materials Committee D18 on Soil and Rock
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2003 (ASME)
Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Youth Award 2002, Chinese Institute of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Honorary Member
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2003 (ASME)
AIAA Thermophysics Award 2003
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Excellence in Process Development Research Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Technology Pioneer, US Offshore Energy Center’s Hall of Fame
Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award, 2002
ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, American Society for Quality
China Higher Education Science and Technology Award
Fellow of the American Materials Society, ASM International
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Thomas A Middlebrooks Award, American Society of Civil Engineers
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Mac Van Valkenburg Award 2000, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Appointed by the Commission of Inquiry on the New Airport to serve as its expert on mechatronics
Innovator of the Year Award, EDN Asia
1999 Best Discussion Award of the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
1999 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers
State-of-the-Art Award, American Society of Civil Engineers
Innovator of the Year Award, EDN Asia
National Natural Science Award, China State Commission on Science and Technology
1996 Heat Transfer Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Paul and May Chu Staff Sportsman Award 2019-20 (Long-distance Running)
HKUST President's Outstanding Service Award
HKUST President's Outstanding Service Award
Paul and May Chu Staff Sportsman Award
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2019 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineering/Researchers
1st Prize - Trainee of the Year Award 2018
HKICT Awards 2015: Best Innovation (Innovative Technology) Silver Award