Grants and Awards
Some Research
Grants
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NSERC Discovery Grant, 2019-2024
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Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), 2020
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Technology Demonstration Program (TDP),
Industrial Canada, 2016-2021
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NSERC E.W.R. Steacie
Memorial Fellowship, 2016-2018
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NSERC Engage Grant, 2015
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NSERC Research Tools and
Instruments (RTI) Grant, Category 1, 2015
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NSERC Engage Grant,
2014
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NSERC Research Tools and
Instruments (RTI) Grant, Category 1, 2014
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A
Cloud-Assisted Crowdsourcing Machine-to-Machine Networking Platform for
Vehicular Applications
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with Profs. Martin Ester,
Ke Wang, and Cenk Sahinalp
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NSERC Discovery Grant, 2014-2019
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NSERC Strategic
Project Grant, 2013-2015
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NSERC Strategic
Project Grant, 2013-2015
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NSERC Engage Grant,
2013
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NSERC Engage Grant,
2013
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STINT (Swedish Foundation for
International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Initial Grant,
2012
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NSERC Engage Grant,
2012
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Nokia University
Relation Grant, 2011-2012
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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
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Key Technologies and Standardization of Access and Transmission Mechanisms
in Ubiquitous Networks for Cloud Computing
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with Tsinghua, CAS, China Telecom, U.
Ottawa, GWU, U. Michigan
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NSERC Engage Grant,
2011
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NSERC Engage Grant,
2010
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NSERC
Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award,
2009-2011
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NSERC Discovery Grant, 2009-2013
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MITACS NCE Project
Internship Grant, 2009
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MITACS Project Grant,
2009-2010
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Optimizing Information
Flows over the Internet: Routing and Coding with Non-Cooperative Users
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with Profs. Baochun Li
(U. Toronto) and Zongpeng Li (U. Calgary)
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Industrial sponsors:
Bell Canada, Alberta Ingenuity, Nokia Canada
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Nokia University Relation
Initiative Grant, 2008-2009
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NSERC Strategic Project
Grant (Supplemental Competition), 2008-2009
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Toward Adaptive, Scalable, and
Pervasive Wireless Network Monitoring
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with Prof. Vincent Wong (UBC)
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Industrial sponsors: Nokia
Canada, Novax
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NSERC Strategic Project
Grant, 2007-2010
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Advanced Multimedia Coding and
Transmission over Ubiquitous Networks
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with Profs. Xiaolin Wu (McMaster), Jie Liang
(SFU), Nima Sarshar (U. Regina)
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Industrial sponsors: MRF
systems, Eyeball Networks, and TRLabs
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NSERC Discovery Grant, 2007-2008
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BC Industrial Internship Program Grant,
2007
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MITACS Internship Program Grant, 2007
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HP Technology for Teaching
Grant Initiative, 2006
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British Columbia Knowledge
Development Fund (BCKDF) Matching Grant, 2005
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Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI) New Opportunities Grant, 2005
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NSERC Research Tools
and Instruments (RTI) Grant, Category 1, 2005
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Canada NSERC (Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council) Discovery Grant, 2004-2007
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President's Research Grant,
2004
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SFU Start-up Grant, 2004
Past (2003-04 at CUHK)
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RGC Area-of-Excellence (AoE)
Grant (with Prof. M. R. Lyu)
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CSE Strategic Grant (Digital
Entertainment, with Prof. J. Lui, J. Yan, T.T. Wong, and S.H.Or)
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HK Research Grant Council (RGC)
Internal Grant
Some Awards
2003- (at
CUHK and SFU)
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Fellow of
Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE 2019)
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Fellow of
IEEE, 2017
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HKUST CSE
Distinguished Alumni Award 2017 (Inaugural year)
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University Professorship, SFU, 2015-2020
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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)
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Test of Time Paper
Award of IEEE INFOCOM, 2015 (Inaugural year)
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ACM
TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, 2013
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2012
Faculty of Applied Sciences Excellence Award (Research - Early Career), SFU
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Best
Paper Award, ACM Multimedia 2012
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Best
Student Paper Award,
IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2022
(to my PhD student Ryan Shea)
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2012 BCNET Digital
Media Innovation Challenge
(to my
undergraduate student Vera Lukman for her project on BitNapkin)
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Best
Paper Award, IEEE Globecom 2011
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IEEE
Communications Society Best Paper Award on Multimedia Communications,
2009
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2009 BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge
(to my PhD
student Xu Cheng for his project on NetTube)
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Best
Student Paper Award,
IWQoS 2008
(to my master's student Cameron Dale)
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Hong Kong Young Scientist
Award (Achievement of Excellence in Engineering Science), 2004
1999-2003 (Postgraduate at
HKUST)
1994-1999 (Undergraduate at
Tsinghua)
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Excellent Graduate (top 10%
GPA among all graduates), 1999
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Excellent Student Scholarship
(95,98), Legend Scholarship (96), Motorola Scholarship
(97)
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First Prize, Student Research
Training (SRT) Project, 1998
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First Prize, "Challenge Cup"
Competition of Science and Technology Works , 1997
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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)
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First Prize,
Programming Contest, Tsinghua Universities, Beijing and Taiwan, 1996
Before
1994 (High school)
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One of the
15 members of the training camp for the
International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI’94)
national team (direct entrance to Tsinghua University)
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First Prize,
Provincial Olympiad in Informatics, Jiangsu Province,
1993, 1994
Others
- National Teams for
International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), P.R. China, 1995-1997
- 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
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