Awards

Research and Academic Awards

2019

Best Paper Award

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom 2019)

Best Paper Award

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Sciecne and Systems (IEEE DSS 2019)

2016

VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award (2016)

The 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016)

For the paper "The New Casper: Query Processing for Location Services without Compromising Privacy"

2015

Best Paper Award

The 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2015)

2013

Teaching Excellence Award

City University of Hong Kong

2009

Best Paper Award

The 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2009)

2007

Excellence in Research Award

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA

2006

General Dynamics Fellowship Award

Advanced Information Systems, General Dynamics Corporation, USA

Academic Excellence Fellowship

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA

2003

First Runner Up - PolyU-IDT Innovative Entrepreneur Contest

IDT International Limited and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Sonca Products Gold Medal Awards

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2002

Tuition Scholarship for Research Postgraduate Studies (2002-2004)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2001

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation Scholarship

2000

Chiap Hua Cheng's Foundation Scholarship