AAAI/IAAI 2022 Innovative Application Award (for Automatic Product Copywriting for E-Commerce in JD.COM), 2022
AAAI/IAAI 2022 Innovative Application Award (for Intelligent Online Selling Point Extraction for E-Commerce Recommendation in JD.COM), 2022
IBM Master Inventor (40 newly elevated in IBM Research worldwide), Class of 2020
IBM Research Accomplishment Award (1% top-performed teams) (for Research Contributions to Enterprise-Strength Federated Learning for Hybrid Cloud and Edge), 2020
IBM Research Outstanding Accomplishment Award (16 top-performed teams in IBM Research worldwide) (research contributions to GTS TSS multi-vendor services transformation), 2020
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (1% top employees), 2020
IBM Top Researchers (internal ranking #1 or #2 among all IBMers worldwide in the past three years)
IBM High Value Patent Award (for symbolic sequence embedding idea), 2020
IBM High Value Patent Award (for document embedding idea), 2020
IBM Research Accomplishment Award (1% top-performed teams) (Leading a team for contributions of fundamental research in graph neural network and its applications in a wide range of AI tasks), 2019
IBM First/Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth/Sixth/Seventh/Eighth Plateau Invention Achievement Awards, 2017-2020
Best Paper Award, The 53rd IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019), 2019
Best Student Paper Award, AAAI'20 Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs, 2020
Best Student Paper Award, KDD'19 Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs, 2019
Best Paper Award, KDD'19 Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs, 2019
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE AIAED 2019, 2019
Keynote speaker at CVPR-20 Workshop on Diagram Image Retrieval and Analysis (DIRA), 2020
Keynote speaker at International Workshop on Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, 2019
Keynote speaker at China International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Education, 2019
IBM Manager's Choice Awards, 2017-2020
Best Student Paper Finalist (selected 4 from 926 papers), IEEE ICMA 2009
National Third Prize, 2008 Fifth National Graduate Contest in Mathematical Modeling
CASC Outstanding Graduate Research Award 2009 (Top 2%), USTC
Guanghua Outstanding Graduate Research Award 2008 (Top 2 %), USTC
Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 5 %) 2004-2007, Anhui University