2022

IAPR Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

AAIA Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

Outstanding Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

2021

IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

ACM Distinguished Scientist, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Chief AI Scientist and Senior Director, OPPO Research

2020

Best Grand Challenge Organizer Award, ACM Multimedia

2019

Best Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT)

2018

Technical VP and the Chief Scientist, Huawei Research America

2017

Best Paper Finalist, the World’s FIRST 10K award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

2015

Best Paper Runner-up, International ACM Conference on Multimedia.

2014

Best Student Paper Award (co-recipent as the mentor of the student author), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

Assistant Professor, director of the MAPLE lab, University of Central Florida

Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

2013

"Best of ICDE Paper" by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Doctor of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2011

IBM Fellowship, IBM

2009

Doctor of Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China

2007

Best Paper Award, The 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM SIGMM).

Microsoft Fellowship, Microsoft.

2005

Guo Moruo Scholarship, USTC (Top Scholarship in USTC)

Bachelor of Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China