Awards

Here is a list of some of my awards.

  1. Advised Kexin Zheng who won the 2024 USC Best Computer Science Research Award. University of Southern California, 2024.

  2. Partially advised Hang Ma who won the 2021 ICAPS Best Dissertation Award. Thirty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.

  3. Partially advised Hang Ma who won the 2020 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Runner-Up Award. Twentieth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

  4. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at SOCS-2020. Thirteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search.

  5. Best Student Paper Award at ICAPS-2020. Thirtieth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.

  6. USC Stevens 2018 Technology Commercialization Award. University of Southern California, 2019.

  7. Group Publication Award for most number of publications in 2018. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 2019.

  8. Partially advised Wolfgang Hoenig who won the 2019 Best Dissertation Award in Computer ScienceUniversity of Southern California, 2019.

  9. Advised Jiangxing Wang who won the 2019 USC Best Computer Science Research AwardUniversity of Southern California, 2019.

  10. Group Publication Award for most number of publications in 2017. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 2018.

  11. Advised Kexuan Sun who won the 2018 USC Best Computer Science Research Award. University of Southern California, 2018.

  12. Advised Cheng Cheng who won the 2018 USC Undergraduate Computer Science Award for Excellence in Research. University of Southern California, 2018.

  13. Advised Zhi Wang who won the 2017 USC Undergraduate Computer Science Award for Excellence in Research. University of Southern California, 2017.

  14. Advised Nolan Miller who won the 2016 USC Undergraduate Computer Science Award for Excellence in Research. University of Southern California, 2016.

  15. Best Robotics Paper Award at ICAPS-2016. Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.

  16. Advised David Zhang who won the 2015 USC Undergraduate Computer Science Award for Excellence in Research. University of Southern California, 2015.

  17. Advised Sangmook Jung who won the 2014 USC Undergraduate Computer Science Award for Excellence in Research. University of Southern California, 2014.

  18. Best Student Paper Award at ICAPS-2005. Fifteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.

  19. School of Engineering Fellowship at Stanford University. October 2000 – June 2001.