Honors and Awards

Professional Activitiy Awards

AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (Data Mining) (2025)
UVA Outstanding Researcher (2024)
SIGKDD Rising Star Award (2024)
UVA SEAS Research Innovation Award (2024)
Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List (2024)
World’s Rising Stars of Science by Research.com (No. 126 in United States) (2024)
PAKDD Early Career Research Award (2023)
World’s Rising Stars of Science by Research.com (No. 161 in United States) (2023)
NeurIPS Top Reviewers (2023)
UVA Research Communication Fellow (2023)
UVA SEAS Research Innovation Award (2023)
NSF CAREER Award (2022)
UVA Outstanding Researcher (2022)
UVA ECE Department Faculty Research Award (2022)
Top 100 Young Chinese Scholars by Baidu (Data Mining Area) (2022)
J.P. Morgan AI Faculty Research Award (2022)
J.P. Morgan AI Faculty Research Award (2021)
Cisco Faculty Research Award (2021)
AAAI New Faculty Highlights (2021)

Paper Awards

SIGKDD 2025 GenAIRecP workshop Best Paper Award (2025)
PAKDD 2024 Best Paper Award (2024)
SIGKDD 2022 Best Research Paper Award (2022)
CIKM 2022 TrustLOG Workshop Best Paper Award (2022)
INFORMS QSR Best Refereed Paper Finalist (2019)
INFORMS QSR Best Student Paper Finalist (2019)

Student Awards and Recognitions:

SIGKDD 2025 GenAIRecP workshop Best Paper Award (Yaochen Zhu, 2025)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Alexi Gladstone, 2025)
UVA ECE Department Light Fellowship (Yinhan He, 2025)
UVA ECE Department McVey Fellowship (Zihan Chen, 2025)
UVA Brain Institute Presidential Fellowship in Collaborative Neuroscience (Zhenyu Lei, 2025)
SDM 2025 Doctoral Forum Best Poster Runner-up (Xingbo Fu, 2025)
UVA SEAS Outstanding Graduating PhD Award (Yushun Dong, 2025)
UVA ECE Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award (Song Wang, 2025)
UVA ECE Ann Lee Brown Rookie of the Year Research Award (Yaochen Zhu, 2025)
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Honorable Mention (Tong Zhou, 2024)
UVA SEAS L. William Ballard, Jr. Endowed Fellowship (Yaochen Zhu, 2024)
UVA ECE Department Wilson Bicentennial Grad Fellowship (Yaochen Zhu, 2024)
UVA ECE Department Wilson Bicentennial Grad Fellowship (Binchi Zhang, 2024)
UVA SEAS Outstanding Graduating PhD Award (Jing Ma, 2024)
UVA ECE Ann Lee Brown Rookie of the Year Research Award (Zihan Chen, 2024)
UVA CS Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Research Award (Alexi Gladstone, 2024)
PAKDD 2024 Best Paper Award (Song Wang, 2024)
SDM 2024 Doctoral Forum Best Poster Runner-up (Song Wang, 2024)
UVA iPRIME initiative Fellowship (Xingbo Fu, 2024)
UVA TYDE Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow (Tong Zhou, 2024)
UVA SEAS Carlos and Esther Farrar Endowed Fellowship (Song Wang, 2023)
UVA CS John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award (Jing Ma, 2023)
UVA ECE Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award (Yushun Dong, 2023)
UVA ECE Ann Lee Brown Rookie of the Year Graduate Research Award (Song Wang, 2023)
UVA SEAS L. William Ballard, Jr. Endowed Fellowship (Jing Ma, 2022)
UVA SEAS Copenhaver Charitable Trust Endowed Fellowship (Yushun Dong, 2022)
UVA SEAS Distinguished Fellowship (Yaochen Zhu, 2022)
SIGKDD 2022 Best Research Paper Award (Jing Ma, 2022)
SDM 2022 Doctoral Forum Best Poster Runner-up (Yushun Dong, 2022)
UVA ECE Department McVey Fellowship (Yushun Dong, 2021)
ACM CAPWIC Best Poster Award (Jing Ma, 2021)