Best Teaching Award, MSc Program in Financial Technology, 2024–2025
Best Teaching Award, MSc Program in Big Data Technology, 2021–2022
Best Paper Runner-Up, Applied Research Track, CIKM 2022
Best Review Award, ICLR 2017
Nomination for Best Paper Award, SIAM SDM 2010
Second Class Award in Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education, China, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award, 2004
Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for AAAI/IJCAI (2009–2019)
Inaugural and 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS
Supervised students awarded Google PhD Fellowships, Microsoft Fellowship, HKUST PhD Research Excellence awards, etc.
Research Experience
Former Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
Current Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
Action Editor for Machine Learning journal
Senior Area Chair for major conferences: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI
Area Chair for AAAI and ECML
Member of the IJCAI Board of Trustees
Program Chair of IJCAI-2025
General Chair of PAKDD-2026
Background
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
IEEE Fellow
Research interests: Machine learning, Deep learning, Data mining, Artificial intelligence
Applications: Computer vision and image processing, Speech processing, Pervasive computing