- Clarivate Analytics (WoS) Highly Cited Researcher (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
- Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM), 2018. “Learning from Collective Intelligence: Feature Learning Using Largely Social Images and Tags,” with Hanwang Zhang, Xindi Shang, Huanbo Luan, and Tat-Seng Chua.
- NSF China Distinguished Young Scholar, 2017.
- Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 2017. “Learning to Rank Using User Clicks and Visual Features for Image Retrieval,” with Jun Yu, Dacheng Tao, and Yong Rui.
- Prize Paper Award Honorable Mention, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2016. “Spectral Hashing with Semantically Consistent Graph for Image Indexing,” with Peng Li, Jian Cheng, Changsheng Xu, and Hanqing Lu.
- National Award for Natural Sciences, 2015, with Feng Wu, Houqiang Li, Dong Liu, and Richang Hong.
- Prize Paper Award Honorable Mention, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2015. “Movie2Comics: Towards a Lively Video Content Presentation,” with Richang Hong, Xiao-Tong Yuan, Shuicheng Yan, and Tat-Seng Chua.
- Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM SIGIR, 2015. “Incorporating Non-sequential Behavior into Click Models,” with Ye Chen, Yiqun Liu, Ke Zhou, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma.
- Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2014. “Factorized Similarity Learning in Networks,” with Shiyu Chang, Guo-Jun Qi, Charu Aggarwal, Jiayu Zhou, and Thomas Huang
- ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award, 2014.
- NSF China Excellent Young Scientist, 2013.
- SCOPUS Young Researcher Award, 2012.
- Best Demo Award, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2012. “Hi, Magic Closet, Tell Me What to Wear,” with Si Liu, Tam V. Nguyen, Jiashi Feng, and Shuicheng Yan.
- Best Paper Award, the 4th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS), 2012.
- Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2010. “Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impairment,” with Richang Hong, Mengdi Xu, Shuicheng Yan, and Tat-Seng Chua.
- Best Paper Award, International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM), 2010. “Social Image Search with Diverse Relevance Ranking,” with Kuiyuan Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Jiang Zhang.
- Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2009. “Visual Query Suggestion,” with Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Zengfu Wang, and Xian-Sheng Hua.
- Microsoft Fellowship Award, Microsoft Research Asia, 2006.