Awards


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Qi Ye, Guangya Yu, Jingping Liu, Erzhen Chen, Chenjie Dong, Xiaosheng Lin, Zelei Liu, Han Yu & Tong Ruan, "IMQC: A Large Language Model Platform for Medical Quality Control," in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-25), 2025.


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Chang Liu, Peng Hou, Anxiang Zeng & Han Yu, "Transformer-empowered Multi-modal Item Embedding for Enhanced Image Search in E-Commerce," in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24), pp. 22770-22778, 2024.


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Hao Sun, Xiaoli Tang, Chengyi Yang, Zhenpeng Yu, Xiuli Wang, Qijie Ding, Zengxiang Li & Han Yu, "HiFi-Gas: Hierarchical Federated Learning Incentive Mechanism Enhanced Gas Usage Estimation," in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24), pp. 22824-22832, 2024.


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Yuliang Shi, Lin Cheng, Cheng Jiang, Hui Zhang, Guifeng Li, Xiaoli Tang, Han Yu, Zhiqi Shen & Cyril Leung, "IBCA: An Intelligent Platform for Social Insurance Benefit Qualification Status Assessment," in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24), pp. 22815-22823, 2024.


   

Award: Excellent Paper Award

Awarding Organization: International Journal of Crowd Science (IJCS)

Publication:
Jiehuang Zhang, Ying Shu & Han Yu. Fairness in Design: A framework for facilitating ethical AI designs. International Journal of Crowd Science, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 32-39, Tsinghua University Press (2023).


   

Award: Best Poster Runner-Up Award

Awarding Organization: Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2023

Publication:
Xiaoli Tang & Han Yu, "Competitive-Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Auction-based Federated Learning," in Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'23), pp. 4262-4270, 2023.


   

Award: Best Poster Award

Awarding Organization: Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2023

Publication:
Yuxin Shi, Zelei Liu, Zhuan Shi & Han Yu, "Fairness-Aware Client Selection for Federated Learning," in Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'23), pp. 324-329, 2023.


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Yuanyuan Chen, Zichen Chen, Sheng Guo, Yansong Zhao, Zelei Liu, Pengcheng Wu, Chengyi Yang, Zengxiang Li & Han Yu, "Efficient Training of Large-Scale Industrial Fault Diagnostic Models through Federated Opportunistic Block Dropout," in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-23), pp. 15485-15493, 2023.


   

Award: Distinguished Paper Award

Awarding Organization: The 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'22)

Publication:
Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Zhengzi Xu, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan, Bihuan Chen & Yang Liu, "Has My Release Disobeyed Semantic Versioning? Static Detection Based On Semantic Differencing," in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'22), pp. 51:1-51:12, 2022.


   

Award: Best Paper Award

Awarding Organization: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain'22)

Publication:
Jiawen Kang, Dongdong Ye, Jiangtian Nie, Jiang Xiao, Xianjun Deng, Siming Wang, Zehui Xiong, Rong Yu & Dusit Niyato, "Blockchain-based Federated Learning for Industrial Metaverse: Incentive Schemes with Optimal AoI," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain'22), 2022.


   

Award: Certificate of Commendation

Awarding Organization: Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA)

Publication:
Xu Guo, Han Yu, Boyang Li, Hao Wang, Pengwei Xing, Siwei Feng, Zaiqing Nie & Chunyan Miao. Federated learning for personalized humor recognition. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 68:1-68:18, ACM (2022).


   

Award: 3rd Prize

Awarding Organization: Trusted Media Challenge, AI Singapore, 2022


   

Award: Top 5 Most Popular Video Award

Awarding Organization: College of Engineernig (CoE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Publication:
Han Yu, Zichen Chen, Yunayuna Chen, Zelei Liu & Lingjuan Lyu, "Trust-based Open Collaborative Federated Learning," 2022.


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Zelei Liu, Yuanyuan Chen, Yansong Zhao, Han Yu, Yang Liu, Renyi Bao, Jinpeng Jiang, Zaiqing Nie, Qian Xu & Qiang Yang, "Contribution-Aware Federated Learning for Smart Healthcare," in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), pp. 12396-12404, 22022.


   

Award: Innovative Application of AI Award

Awarding Organization: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Publication:
Heng-Yi Li, Yabo Ni, Anxiang Zeng, Han Yu & Chunyan Miao, "Prior-Guided Transfer Learning for Enhancing Item Representation in E-commerce," in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), pp. 12387-12395, 2022.


   

Award: Best Paper Award

Awarding Organization: AI for Transportation Workshop in Conjunction with AAAI-22

Publication:
Yu Guo, Wen Liu, Jiangtian Nie, Lingjuan Lyu, Zehui Xiong, Jiawen Kang, Han Yu & Dusit Niyato, "DADFNet: Dual Attention and Dual Frequency-Guided Dehazing Network for Video-Empowered Intelligent Transportation," AI for Transportation Workshop in Conjunction with AAAI, 2022.


   

Award: Best Paper Award

Awarding Organization: The 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom'21)

Publication:
Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Jer Shyuan Ng, Zehui Xiong, Sahil Garg, Yang Zhang, Dusit Niyato & Chunyan Miao, "Dynamic edge association in hierarchical federated learning networks," in Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom'21), 2021.


   

Award: Best Paper Award (Second Place)

Awarding Organization: The 1st International Student Conference on Artificial Intelligence (STCAI'21)

Publication:
Pye Sone Kyaw & Han Yu, "Personalised Federated Learning: A Combinational Approach," in Proceedings of the 1st International Student Conference on Artificial Intelligence (STCAI'21), 2021.


   

Award: Best Student Paper Award

Awarding Organization: International Workshop on Federated and Transfer Learning for Data Sparsity and Confidentiality in Conjunction with IJCAI 2021 (FTL-IJCAI'21)

Publication:
Mengmeng Tian, Yuxin Chen, Yuan Liu, Zehui Xiong, Cyril Leung & Chunyan Miao, "A Contract Theory based Incentive Mechanism for Federated Learning," International Workshop on Federated and Transfer Learning for Data Sparsity and Confidentiality in Conjunction with IJCAI 2021 (FTL-IJCAI'21), 2021.


   

Award: Best Student Paper Runners Up Award

Awarding Organization: Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA)

Publication:
Chang Liu, Han Yu, Boyang Li, Zhiqi Shen, Zhanning Gao, Peiran Ren, Xuansong Xie, Lizhen Cui & Chunyan Miao, "Noise-resistant Deep Metric Learning with Ranking-based Instance Selection," in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'21), pp. 6811-6820, 2021.


   

Award: Best Presentation Award

Awarding Organization: Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA)

Publication:
Xu Guo, Boyang Li, Han Yu & Chunyan Miao, "Latent-Optimized Adversarial Neural Transfer for Sarcasm Detection," in Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT'21), pp. 5394-5407, 2021.


   

Award: Certificate of Commendation

Awarding Organization: Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA)

Publication:
Shubham Pateria, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan & Chai Quek. Hierarchical reinforcement learning: A comprehensive survey. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 54, no. 5, 109:1-109:35, ACM (2021).