Awards
Awards to my students:
- KEEN Award ($1k Prize) at the CEC Undergraduate Research Celebration, GMU, 2025 (to Sai Adith Senthil Kumar, presenting Counterfactual Persona Simulation)
- Outstanding GTA Award, GMU CS, 2025 (to Saurabh Srivastava)
- Selected Presentation at SIAM SDM Doctoral Forum, 2025 (to Saurabh Srivastava)
- Third Place and the AFCEA Special Award at the Fairfax County Science Fair, 2025 (to Sarah Li, presenting the ASSIP Web Agent Project)
- Outstanding PhD Student Award, GMU CS, 2024 (to Murong Yue)
- Outstanding GTA Award, GMU CS, 2022 (to Hao Yan)
Awards to me:
- Recognition for Service on Hangs-On Generative AI Tutorial, GMU CEC, 2024
- Top Reviewer, NeurIPS, 2023.
- Accelerating Foundation Models Research Program, Microsoft Research, 2023
- Editor Commendation, Journal of Business and Psychology, 2023.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021.
- Graduate Student Research Award, OSU, CSE, 2021.
- Presidential Fellowship, OSU, 2020
- Selected to Rising Stars in EECS, UC Berkeley, 2020.
- Graduate Students Poster Award (Honorable Mention), OSU, 2020.
- NSF Student Travel Award for The Web Conference 2019 (WWW'19).
- Graduate Students Poster Award (Honorable Mention), OSU, 2019.
- Travel Grant for CRA-W Graduate Cohort for Women, San Francisco, 2018.
- Beijing Outstanding Graduate Award, Beijing, 2015.
- First-class Scholarship (top 3%), BUPT, 2012, 2014.
- Second-class Scholarship (top 5%), BUPT, 2013.