Honors & Awards

• UT System STARs Award Supporting the research infrastructure of my new group at UTA
  2026
• Silver Reviewer Award, ICML Top reviewers based on area-chair ratings
  2026
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fellowship
  2025
• Cancer Grand Challenges Shortlist Team Biologia Ex Machina, Cancer Research UK & NCI
  2025
• OpenAI Research Grant Award Sole PI; one of 11 teams selected worldwide
  2024
• NeurIPS Oral Presentation Top 2% of submissions
  2023
• Top Reviewer Award, NeurIPS
  2023
• Best Paper Award, SoCal NLP Symposium
  2023
• Amazon Alexa Prize Winner, Third-Place Honor, Inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge Proposal and team leader
  2022
• Graduate Research Award (Mike Liu Scholarship), CSE, OSU
  2022
• Rising Stars in Data Science, University of Chicago CDAC
  2021
• Graduate Student Research Poster Award (Top 5), CSE, OSU
  2021
• SIGIR Student Travel Grant
  2021
• SIGKDD Student Travel Award
  2019
• Excellent Bachelor Degree Thesis Award, Shandong Province, China
  2016
• Excellent Graduate Thesis Award, UPC, China
  2015
• China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China Visiting Student Program at Polytech Nice Sophia, Nice, France
  2015
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China Top 0.2%
  2014
• Soong Ching Ling Foundation (SCLF) Scholarship, China
  2013
• National Scholarship for Encouragement, China
  2012

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