2026:
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "TreeBridge: Aligning LLM Embeddings in Industrial Recommender Systems".
2025:
Top Cited Scholar, Scilit, MDPI.
World's Top 2% Scientists, Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, Stanford University (Career Long Rank: 217,520/230,333, Single Year Rank: 43,188/236,313).
Top Scholar - Lifetime, ScholarGPS (#8 for Federated Learning, top 0.08%).
Best Scientists – Computer Science, Research.com (World Ranking: 5,715/166,880).
Top Cited Article Award, AI Magazine - "Intelligent online selling point extraction and generation for e-commerce recommendation".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "IMQC: A Large Language Model Platform for Medical Quality Control".
Certificate of Appreciation, IJCAI'25, Montreal, Canada.
Certification of Distinction, People's Association, Singapore.
Certification of Appreciation, People's Association, Singapore.
2024:
2023 Best Influential Conference Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society.
Excellent Paper Award, International Journal of Crowd Science (IJCS) - "Fairness in Design: A Framework for Facilitating Ethical Artificial intelligence Designs".
ESI Highly Cited Paper, "Privacy and Robustness in Federated Learning: Attacks and Defenses", IEEE TNNLS.
ESI Highly Cited Paper, "Toward Personalized Federated Learning", IEEE TNNLS.
ESI Highly Cited Paper, "STMGCN: Mobile Edge Computing-Empowered Vessel Trajectory Prediction Using Spatio-Temporal Multigraph Convolutional Network", IEEE TII.
ESI Highly Cited Paper, "Transfer Learning with Dynamic Distribution Adaptation", ACM TIST.
Community Leadership Award, People's Association, Singapore.
Certificate of Distinction, People's Association, Singapore.
World's Top 2% Scientists, Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, Stanford University (Single Year Rank: 58,945/223,153).
Certificate of Appreciation, the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'24), Jeju, South Korea.
Appointed as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Standards Committee Vice Chair.
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Transformer-empowered Multi-modal Item Embedding for Enhanced Image Search in E-Commerce".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "HiFi-Gas: Hierarchical Federated Learning Incentive Mechanism Enhanced Gas Usage Estimation".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "IBCA: An Intelligent Platform for Social Insurance Benefit Qualification Status Assessment".
2023:
World's Top 2% Scientists, Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, Stanford University (Single Year Rank: 92,431/210,198).
Elevated to CCF Distinguished Member status.
COVID-19 Resilience Certificate - Project Belanja-a-Meal@Woodlands, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, Singapore.
COVID-19 Resilience Certificate - Project Store@Woodlands, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, Singapore.
Outstanding Award, Sembawang GRC, People's Association, Singapore.
Certificate of Excellence, Sembawang GRC, People's Association, Singapore.
Community Leadership Award, Sembawang GRC, People's Association, Singapore.
10 Years Long Service Award, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Appointed as the IJCAI Sponsorship Officer General.
Certificate of Appreciation, the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'23), Macau.
Best Poster Award, Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2023 - "Fairness-Aware Client Selection for Federated Learning", ICME'23.
Best Poster Runner-Up Award, Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2023 - "Competitive-Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Auction-based Federated Learning", IJCAI'23.
Elevated to AAAI Senior Member status.
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Efficient Training of Large-Scale Industrial Fault Diagnostic Models through Federated Opportunistic Block Dropout".
2022:
Merit Award, Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of Singapore (Scientific and/or Technological Development), Junior Chamber International (JCI). (Lianhe Zaobao, NTU News Release)
Certificate of Appreciation, Yuhua SMC, People's Association, Singapore.
World's Top 2% Scientists, Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, Stanford University (Single Year Rank: 156,635/200,409).
Letter of Appreciation, Ministry of Education, Singapore.
Elevated to IEEE Senior Member status.
PREMIA Certificate of Commendation, "Federated learning for personalized humor recognition", ACM TIST.
Certificate of Appreciation, the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'22), Vienna, Austria.
Top 5 Most Popular Video Award, College of Engineering (CoE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, "Trust-based Open Collaborative Federated Learning".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Contribution-Aware Federated Learning for Smart Healthcare".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Intelligent Online Selling Point Extraction for E-Commerce Recommendation".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Automatic Product Copywriting for E-Commerce".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Prior-Guided Transfer Learning for Enhancing Item Representation in E-commerce".
Best Paper Award, AAAI-22 AI in Transportation Workshop.
National Service Advocate Award, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore.
Certificate of Appreciation, Sembawang GRC, People's Association, Singapore.
Friend of Yuhua Award, People's Association, Singapore.
Friend of National Service Award, Singapore Armed Forces, Singapore.
2021:
Certificate of Appreciation, the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'21), Montreal, QB, Canada.
Certificate of Excellence, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Community Leadership Award, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Certificate of Distinction, Woodlands Digital Office, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Best Paper Award, the 1st International Student Conference on Artificial Intelligence (STCAI’21).
PREMIA Best Student Paper Runners Up Award, "Noise-resistant Deep Metric Learning with Ranking-based Instance Selection", CVPR'21.
PREMIA Best Presentation Award, "Latent-Optimized Adversarial Neural Transfer for Sarcasm Detection", NAACL-HLT'21.
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Enhancing E-commerce Recommender System Adaptability with Online Deep Controllable Learning-To-Rank".
2020:
Highly Commended Entrant for the Global Undergraduate Awards 2020 for my Final Year Student Anqi Tu with project entitled "Development of an AI-powered Shareable Bike Rebalancing System".
Certificate of Excellence, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Community Leadership Award, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Certificate of Achievement (2015–2020), Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "FedVision: An Online Visual Object Detection Platform powered by Federated Learning".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "Accelerating Ranking in E-Commerce Search Engines through Contextual Factor Selection".
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "PIDS: An Intelligent Electric Power Management Platform".
2019:
Shortlisted for the JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of the World Awards, Singapore (Scientific and/or Technological Development Category).
Innovation Award, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), Macau SAR, China.
Most Educational Video Award, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), Macau SAR, China.
Certificate of Appreciation, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), Macau SAR, China.
Application Impact Award Nomination, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), Macau SAR, China.
Best Paper Award Nomination, the 1st International Workshop on Federated Machine Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality (FL-IJCAI'19), Macau SAR, China.
Certificate of Excellence, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Certificate of Appreciation, Blossom Seeds Limited, Singapore.
Artfully Creative Award, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Student Abstract Competition Finalist, the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), Honolulu, HI, USA。
2018:
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (JRCS), Elsevier.
Finalist, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) Future Mobility Innovation Competition, Shanghai, China.
Top 10 Papers, the 26th ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM'18), Seoul, South Korea.
Most Societally Beneficial Video Award, the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18), Stockholm, Sweden.
Best Paper Award Nomination, the 10th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media (SCSM'18), Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Innovative Application of AI Award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), "SmartHS: An AI Platform for Improving Government Service Provision".
Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP) (2018–2022), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Outstanding GRC Project Award - Sembawang GRC Prime Minister's Post National Day Rally (NDR) Dialogue, People's Association Youth Movement (PAYM), Singapore.
2017:
Shortlisted for the National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship (Class of 2018), Singapore.
Set a new Singapore Record for the Largest Mobile Phone Skills Workshop for Senior Citizens, Singapore Book of Records, Singapore.
Certificate of Excellence, Nam Hwa Opera Ltd, Singapore.
Best Student Paper Award, International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT).
Outstanding GRC Project Award - Sembawang GRC SG50 Discovery Race, People's Association Youth Movement (PAYM), Singapore.
2016:
Best Paper Award, the 1st International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering (ICCSE'16), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Best Poster Award, the 1st International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering (ICCSE'16), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Best Paper Award, the 8th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media (SCSM'16), Toronto, ON, Canada.
Certificate of Excellence, Nam Hwa Opera Ltd, Singapore.
Certificate of Appreciation, Mountbatten SMC, Singapore.
Certificate of Appreciation, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Best Poster Award, the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), Phoenix, AZ, USA.;
Best Video - People's Choice Award, the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), Phoenix, AZ, USA.;
2015:
Best Demo Award, the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'15), Singapore.;
Youth Leadership Award, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Achievement Award, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Certificate of Excellence in Community Service, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
Set a new Singapore Record for the First Interactive Gaming Kiosk Equipped with Personal Wellness Analytics, Singapore Book of Records.;
Set a new Singapore Record for the Most Number of Wishes Received from an Augmented Reality App, Singapore Book of Records.;
Lee Kuan Yew Post-Doctoral Fellowship (LKY PDF) (2015–2018).
Best Application Video Award, IJCAI-15 Video Competition, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Set a new Singapore Record for the First Tribute Mobile App Using Augmented Reality in Honour of Singapore's Founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Book of Records.;
Research Commercialization via Joint Venture Companies Award, NTUitive, NTU, Singapore.
People's Choice Award Nomination, the 9th AAAI Video Competition (AAAI-15), Austin, TX, USA.
Singapore Challenge Finalist (Top 9), the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @one-north, Singapore.
2014:
Singapore Challenge Finalist (Top 10), the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @one-north, Singapore.
Certificate of Excellence in Community Service, Sembawang GRC (Woodlands), Singapore.
2013: Student Scholarship, the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS'13), Saint Paul, MN, USA.
2012: Selected for the IDEA League Summer School on Value Sensitive Design in Social Networking at Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD), Delft, the Netherlands.
2011: Best Paper Award, the 13th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT'11), Jinan, China.
2009: Best Paper Award Nomination, the 7th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS'09), Macau SAR, China.
2008:
Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) Ph.D. Scholarship (2008–2012).
Hewlett-Packard (HP) eAward for Outstanding Employees.
2005: Best Undergraduate Project (Bronze) Award, College of Engineering (CoE) Week Exhibition, NTU, Singapore.
2004: Prize of Novelty, Design and Development Project (DDP) Robotics Competition, NTU, Singapore.
2003:
Commendation Award, Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore.
Singapore MOE Scholarship (Undergraduate) (2003–2007).
2001: Singapore MOE Scholarship (Pre-university) (2001–2002).
1999: Singapore MOE Scholarship (Secondary) (1999–2000).