A selection of my awards and media coverages, sorted by time.
2018
π IEEEXtreme 12.0 World Champion [Details]
π The Web Conference Best Poster Award Runner-up
π C.W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award. This award is for only one outstanding graduate student each year in the CS Department at UIUC. [Details]
2017
π Google PhD Fellowship, sole winner in Structured Data and Database Management from North America.
π The Champion of ITA Challenge 2017.
π 4th place, Fake News Challenge #1. github repo
π’ Google AI Blog: Announcing 2017 Google PhD fellows
π’ CS@Illinois News: Two Illinois Graduate Students Win Google Fellowship
π’ Illinois Tech Association: Champion Picture
π’ CS@Illinois News: Illinois Team Tests Problem-Solving Skills at ICPC 2017. Iβm the teamβs coach.
2016
π Grand prize, Yelp Dataset Challenge, [Yelp]
π’ TripAdvisor Blog: Mining Text for Review Snippets. My phrase mining methods are utilized and appreciated.
π’ CS@Illinois News: Illinois Team Advances to ICPC World Finals. Iβm the teamβs coach.
π’ Yelp: Winners of Yelp Dataset Challenges. Iβm Round 5 winner.
2015
π Runner-up, Prostate Cancer DREAM challenge, [DREAM Challenge]
π’ TripAdvisor Blog: Using NLP to Find βInterestingβ Collections of Hotels
π’ National Institute of Health BD2K Center: UIUC Teams Won Twice in the Recent DREAM Prostate Cancer Challenges.
2014
π Computer Science Excellence Fellowship, [CS@ILLINOIS]
π’ Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
π’ Zhiyuan Excellent Student Scholarship (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
2013
π Gold medal, 2nd Place, Asian Champion in ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) World Finals 2013. Much more related awards in Experience.
2012
π National Scholarship (China)
π’ SJTU News: Zhiyuan Students Win Championship at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Finals