• SIGKDD Ph.D. Dissertation Runner Up Award, 2016.
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award in CS Dept, UCSB, 2015.
  • Regents’ Special Fellowship, UCSB, 2010-2011, 2014-2015.
  • Ph.D. Progress Award in CS Dept, UCSB 2014.
  • NSF Student Travel Award for SIGKDD 2014.
  • NSF Travel Award for Recomb 2013.
  • Doctor Forum Travel Award for SDM 2012.
  • ICML registration waiver, 2011
  • Excellent Graduation Thesis Award (top 5%) of USTC, thesis titled “Low-rank Matrix Recovery with Spatial Continuity Constraint”, 2010
  • Guanghua Education Scholarship (first-class), USTC, 2009
  • University-wide Excellent Undergraduate Research Project Scholarship (20%), USTC, 2009
  • National Scholarship (top 2%), USTC, 2008
  • National Scholarship (top 2%), USTC, 2007