International Awards and Prizes

1. Peter Luh Young Researcher Award (Runner-up) for the paper “ Dynamic Causal Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Prediction”, selected 3/600, highly prestigious, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2023).
2. Best Paper Award (Runner-up) for the paper “ Graph-aware Tensor Topic Models for Individualized Passenger Travel Pattern Clustering”, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) (2023).
3. Best Student Paper Award (Finalist) for the paper “Tensor Completion for High-dimensional Data with Graph-structured and Weakly-dependent Sample Dimension”, IISE QCRE (2022).
4. Best Applied Paper Award (Winner) for the paper “ Tensor Topic Models with Graphs and Applications on Individualized Travel Patterns” INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics (DMDA) Workshop (2021).
5. Best Theoretical Paper Award (Runner-Up) for the paper “ Low-Rank Robust Subspace Tensor Clustering for Metro Passenger Flow Modeling”, INFORMS DMDA (2021).
6. Best Conference Paper Award (Winner) for the paper “ Long-Short Term Spatiotemporal Tensor Prediction for Passenger Flow Profile”, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) (2020): selected from 1/500, highly prestigious.
7. Best Student Poster Award (Finalist) for the paper “ Profile Decomposition based Hybrid Transfer Learning for Cold-start Data Anomaly Detection”, INFORMS Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Section (2020).
8. Best Student Paper Award (Finalist) for the paper “ Individualized Passenger Travel Pattern Multi-Clustering based on Graph Regularized Tensor Latent Dirichlet Allocation”, INFORMS Data Mining (2020).
9. Best Student Paper Award (Finalist) for the paper “ Tensor Completion for Weakly-Dependent Data on Graph for Metro Passenger Flow Prediction”, INFORMS QSR Section (2020).

Scholarships and Individual Funding

- Awards During Ph.D. and After Ph.D.

1. ACM Young Researcher Travel Grant Award 2023 (Winner) Amount: 1,000 USD;

• Funding Agency: ACM SIGSPATIAL (2023).

2. Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scholarship Award (2017-2020) Amount: 1,296,000 HKD

• Highly-selective and prestigious, only 2 recipients in the department.
• Funding Agency: Hong Kong Research Grants Council

3. Best Thesis Award 2021 (2nd Runners-up) Amount: 3,000 HKD

• HKUST Three Minute Thesis Competition.

4. 1st Runners-up, Audience Award, Hackathon@UST 2018 Amount: 15,000 HKD

- During Bachelor Study

1. National First Prize, “Challenge Cup” National Curricular Academic Science and Technology Contest: A data-driven study for land transfer in rural China 2015
2. Honored Graduate Award, Xi’an Jiaotong University 2017
3. Regional First Prize, 7th Mechanical Innovation & Design Competition 2016
4. National Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University 2016
5. 1st-Runners-up Award, XJTU Entrepreneurship Competition 2015
6. National Encourage Scholarships, Xi’an Jiaotong University 2014, 2015