Grants and Awards

Some Research Grants

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2019-2024

• Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), 2020

• Technology Demonstration Program (TDP), Industrial Canada, 2016-2021

  • with MDA

• NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 2016-2018

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2015

  • with Rimeware

• NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant, Category 1, 2015

  • Mobile and Cloud Computing Equipment for Crowdsourced Multimedia

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2014

  • with Shaw Communications

• NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant, Category 1, 2014

  • A Cloud-Assisted Crowdsourcing Machine-to-Machine Networking Platform for Vehicular Applications

  • with Profs. Martin Ester, Ke Wang, and Cenk Sahinalp

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2014-2019

• NSERC Strategic Project Grant, 2013-2015

  • A Cloud-Assisted Crowdsourcing Machine-to-Machine Networking Platform for Vehicular Applications

  • with Profs. Baochun Li (U. Toronto) and Zongpeng Li (U. Calgary)

• NSERC Strategic Project Grant, 2013-2015

  • Reliable and robust enterprise-public cloud computing

  • with Profs. Zongpeng Li (U. Calgary) and Baochun Li (U. Toronto)

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2013

  • with Fuseforward

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2013

  • with moj.io

• STINT (Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Initial Grant, 2012

  • with Prof. Edith Ngai (University of Uppsala, Sweden) and Prof. Victor Leung (UBC)

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2012

  • with Pica

• Nokia University Relation Grant, 2011-2012

• NSFC Major Program of International Cooperation (中国国家自然科学基金委国际合作重大专项), 2011-2015

  • Key Technologies and Standardization of Access and Transmission Mechanisms in Ubiquitous Networks for Cloud Computing

  • with Tsinghua, CAS, China Telecom, U. Ottawa, GWU, U. Michigan

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2011

  • with WebTech Wireless

• NSERC Engage Grant, 2010

  • with Trusterra

• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award, 2009-2011

  • 100 recipients across all science and engineering fields in the whole country

    • 8 from Computer Science

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2009-2013

• MITACS NCE Project Internship Grant, 2009

• MITACS Project Grant, 2009-2010

  • Optimizing Information Flows over the Internet: Routing and Coding with Non-Cooperative Users

  • with Profs. Baochun Li (U. Toronto) and Zongpeng Li (U. Calgary)

  • Industrial sponsors: Bell Canada, Alberta Ingenuity, Nokia Canada

• Nokia University Relation Initiative Grant, 2008-2009

• NSERC Strategic Project Grant (Supplemental Competition), 2008-2009

  • Toward Adaptive, Scalable, and Pervasive Wireless Network Monitoring

  • with Prof. Vincent Wong (UBC)

  • Industrial sponsors: Nokia Canada, Novax

• NSERC Strategic Project Grant, 2007-2010

  • Advanced Multimedia Coding and Transmission over Ubiquitous Networks

  • with Profs. Xiaolin Wu (McMaster), Jie Liang (SFU), Nima Sarshar (U. Regina)

  • Industrial sponsors: MRF systems, Eyeball Networks, and TRLabs

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2007-2008

  • Earlier renew per SFU VP Research's nomination

• BC Industrial Internship Program Grant, 2007

• MITACS Internship Program Grant, 2007

• HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative, 2006

• British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund  (BCKDF) Matching Grant, 2005

• Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) New Opportunities Grant, 2005

• NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant, Category 1, 2005

• Canada NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council)  Discovery Grant, 2004-2007

• President's Research Grant, 2004

• SFU Start-up Grant, 2004

  Past (2003-04 at CUHK)

• RGC Area-of-Excellence  (AoE) Grant (with Prof. M. R. Lyu)

• CSE Strategic Grant (Digital Entertainment, with Prof. J. Lui, J. Yan, T.T. Wong, and S.H.Or)

• HK Research Grant Council (RGC) Internal Grant

Some Awards

2003- (at CUHK and SFU)

• Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE 2019)

• Fellow of IEEE, 2017

• HKUST CSE Distinguished Alumni Award 2017 (Inaugural year)

• University Professorship, SFU, 2015-2020

• NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 2015 (NSERC's most prestigious award to young researchers in Canadian universities; 6 recipients per year from all science and engineering fields nationwide)

• Test of Time Paper Award of IEEE INFOCOM, 2015 (Inaugural year)

• ACM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, 2013

• 2012 Faculty of Applied Sciences Excellence Award (Research - Early Career), SFU

• Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia 2012

• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2022 (to my PhD student Ryan Shea)

• 2012 BCNET Digital Media Innovation Challenge (to my undergraduate student Vera Lukman for her project on BitNapkin)

• Best Paper Award, IEEE Globecom 2011

• IEEE Communications Society Best Paper Award on Multimedia Communications, 2009

• 2009 BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge (to my PhD student Xu Cheng for his project on NetTube)

• Best Student Paper Award, IWQoS 2008 (to my master's student Cameron Dale)

• Hong Kong Young Scientist Award (Achievement of Excellence in Engineering Science), 2004

1999-2003 (Postgraduate at HKUST)

• Microsoft Research Fellowship, 2000 (the first awardee in Hong Kong)

1994-1999 (Undergraduate at Tsinghua)

• Excellent Graduate (top 10% GPA among all graduates), 1999

• Excellent Student Scholarship (95,98),  Legend Scholarship (96),   Motorola Scholarship (97)

• First Prize, Student Research Training (SRT) Project, 1998

• First Prize, "Challenge Cup" Competition of Science and Technology Works , 1997

• Annual Service Award, State Education Committee and National Association for Science and Technology, P. R. China, 1997 (among the first student awardees of this national award since its inception)

• First Prize, Programming Contest, Tsinghua Universities, Beijing and Taiwan, 1996

Before 1994 (High school)

• One of the 15 members of the training camp for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI’94) national team (direct entrance to Tsinghua University)

• First Prize, Provincial Olympiad in Informatics, Jiangsu Province, 1993, 1994

Others

• Coach

         - National Teams for International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), P.R. China, 1995-1997

• Program Committee Member

         - National Olympiad in Informatics, 1995(Nanjing), 1996(Shanghai), 1997(Hong Kong), P.R. China

         - National Collegiate Programming Contest, 1997, Beijing, P.R. China

         - Capital Collegiate Programming Contest, 1996, 1997, Beijing, P.R. China