Honors and Awards

  • Global STEM Professorship (2022), launched by the Hong Kong Government, which aims to help universities to recruit internationally renowned innovation and technology scholars and their teams to Hong Kong
  • 2020 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in AAAI/IJCAI, recognized by AMiner.org
  • --- the top 10 most cited scholars from the top venues (AAAI/IJCAI) of the field of AI over the past 10 years (2009 – 2019)

  • Provost's Chair in Computer Science and Engineering (2019-2024), a named faculty chair professorship recognized by NTU Singapore
  • Distinguished Senior PC Member, conferred by IJCAI-ECAI 2018
  • Named to AI's 10 to Watch by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine in 2018
  • 2018 AMiner Top 10 Most Influential Scholar Award in Artificial Intelligence, recognized by AMiner.org
  • --- the top 10 most cited scholars from the top venues (AAAI/IJCAI) of the field of AI over the past 10 years (2007 – 2017)

  • Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP) (Class of 2014), awarded by NTU Singapore