A selection of my awards and media coverages, sorted by time.

🏆 Jacobs School Early Career Faculty Development Award, UCSD, 2024
🏆 NSF CAREER Award, 2023
🏆 Google Research Scholar Award, 2021
📢 HDSI@UCSD: Jingbo Shang, Runner-Up ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award
📢 CS@Illinois News: Shang’s Research Flourishes under the Right Guidance, Sustains Illinois CS Success in Data Mining, 2020
🏆 SIGKDD Dissertation Award Runner-up, 2020
🏆 IEEEXtreme 13.0 World Champion, 2019
🏆 IEEEXtreme 12.0 World Champion, 2018 [Details]
🏆 The Web Conference Best Poster Award Runner-up, 2018
🏆 C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award, 2018. This award is for only one outstanding graduate student each year in the CS Department at UIUC. [Details]
🏆 Google PhD Fellowship, 2017 sole winner in Structured Data and Database Management from North America.
🏆 The Champion of ITA Challenge 2017.
🏆 4th place, Fake News Challenge #1, 2017. github repo
📢 Google AI Blog: Announcing 2017 Google PhD fellows, 2017
📢 CS@Illinois News: Two Illinois Graduate Students Win Google Fellowship, 2017
📢 Illinois Tech Association: Champion Picture, 2017
📢 CS@Illinois News: Illinois Team Tests Problem-Solving Skills at ICPC 2017. I’m the team’s coach.
🏆 Grand prize, Yelp Dataset Challenge, [Yelp], 2016
📢 TripAdvisor Blog: Mining Text for Review Snippets., 2016. My phrase mining methods are utilized and appreciated.
📢 CS@Illinois News: Illinois Team Advances to ICPC World Finals., 2016. I’m the team’s coach.
📢 Yelp: Winners of Yelp Dataset Challenges., 2016. I’m Round 5 winner.
🏆 Runner-up, Prostate Cancer DREAM challenge, [DREAM Challenge], 2015
📢 TripAdvisor Blog: Using NLP to Find “Interesting” Collections of Hotels, 2015
📢 National Institute of Health BD2K Center: UIUC Teams Won Twice in the Recent DREAM Prostate Cancer Challenges., 2015
🏆 Computer Science Excellence Fellowship, [CS@ILLINOIS], 2014
📢 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2014
📢 Zhiyuan Excellent Student Scholarship (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2014
🏆 Gold medal, 2nd Place, Asian Champion in ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) World Finals 2013. Much more related awards in Experience.
🏆 National Scholarship (China), 2012
📢 SJTU News: Zhiyuan Students Win Championship at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Finals, 2012