Awards and Honors

2025 The Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision (AEGSS), Athabasca University
2024-2025 Outstanding Distinction Award for AU Faculty, Athabasca University Graduate Students' Association
2025 IEEE Leadership Award, IEEE Smart World Congress 2025
2025 Best Paper Award (with H. Yan, R. Morland, Kinshuk, C. Ives, 2025), IEEE Smart World Congress 2026 , August 18-22, 2025 2024 IEEE Distinguished Leadership Award from IEEE Computer Society, Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
2024 International Tutoring Systems Conference, Best Paper Nomination, Institute of Intelligent Systems
2019 IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award from IEEE Computer Society, Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
2018 IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award IEEE Computer Society, Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
2018 Best paper award IEEE International Conf. on Cyber, Physical & Social Computing
2014 Best paper award IEEE International Conf. on Computational Science & Engineering
2012 Craig Cunningham Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence (CCMATE), Athabasca University
2010 IEEE Senior Member
2010 ACM Senior Member
2009 Leaders Opportunity Fund Award Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) , Canada
1997 Was honored the Golden Award of Chinese Calligraphy Art Competion of Universities in Hongkong.
1992 Provincial Excellent Youth Faculty Member Award, Guangdong Province, China
1991 Outstanding Teacher Award, South China University of Technology
1990 Outstanding Teacher Award, South China University of Technology