Oct. 2024: Outstanding Supervisor Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Oct. 2023: CIKM'23 Best Paper Runner-Up
May 2022: Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talent of Anhui Province
Apr. 2022: New Star in Teaching, Anhui Province
Dec. 2020: First Prize of Wu Wenjun AI Science & Technology Progress Award (Rank 3)
Sep. 2019: DAMO Academy Qingcheng Award (Alibaba)
Dec. 2018: First Prize of MOE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Natural Science, Rank 2)
Aug. 2018: KDD'18 Best Student Paper Award (Research Track)
Sep. 2014: Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mar. 2013: Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province
Oct. 2012: CAS President’s Special Scholarship for Postgraduates
Nov. 2011: ICDM'11 Best Research Paper Award
May 2011: First Prize, 1st National Data Mining Invitation Tournament for College Students (Postgraduate Division)
Mentored students who received multiple honors including Guo Moruo Scholarship, CAS President’s Special Award, and inaugural grants from the NSFC Youth Student Basic Research Program (one undergraduate and one Ph.D. student)
Research Experience
Jul. 2024 – present: Professor and Vice Dean, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, USTC
Nov. 2019 – Jun. 2024: Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, USTC
May 2021 – Oct. 2023: Concurrently served as Deputy Secretary of USTC Youth League Committee and Vice Dean of Innovation & Entrepreneurship College
Feb. 2016 – Nov. 2019: Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, USTC
Jul. 2013 – Jan. 2016: Associate Researcher, School of Computer Science and Technology, USTC
Jul. 2012 – Jun. 2013: Assistant Researcher, School of Computer Science and Technology, USTC
Mar. 2010 – Aug. 2010: Intern, Alibaba (China) Technology Co., Ltd.