Faculty Achievements

Some of the faculty achievements of the Department are listed below:

2025

• Ir Professor Byron Choi Named HKIE Fellow for Pioneering Information Engineering Contributions
• HKBU Computer Science Scholars Named Among the World’s Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholars by ScholarGPS
• Innovative Lip-Password-Based Technology Secures Gold Medal at 15th International Invention Fair in the Middle East
• Dr. Bo Han Secures Young Collaborative Research Grant for Pioneering Research in Trustworthy Machine Learning

2024

• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Named 2024 IAPR Fellow
• Professor Jianliang Xu Named 2025 IEEE Fellow
• HKBU Scholars Recognised in Research.com 2024 Best Computer Science Scientists
• HKBU Computer Science Scholars Distinguished as World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024
• Dr. Kristen Li Honours with Prestigious 2024 UGC Teaching Award
• Three Computer Science Research Projects Secure Guangdong Natural Science Fund 2024
• Dr. Amelie Zhou Receives the Prestigious IEEE Award for Editorial Excellence
• Computer Science Researchers Secure Over HK$10 Million in Prestigious RGC Research Funding
• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Receives President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work & HKBU Innovation Award
• Dr. Jing Ma and Dr. Bo Han Advance Innovative AI Collaborations at Tencent
• Gas-Efficient Blockchain Technology Shines Bright at Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
• Dr. Eric Zhang and Dr. Kejing Yin Receive Close to HK$1 Million from Health and Medical Research Fund
• Dr. Xin Huang and Dr. Eric Zhang Secure Prestigious Young Collaborative Research Grant for Pioneering Projects in Federated Graph Management and Metabolic Network Reconstruction

2023

• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Honours Outstanding Achievement Award in APNNS
• HKBU Computer Science Scholars Listed Among World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023
• Dr. Bo Han Receives CCF-Baidu Research Funding for Advancing Trustworthy Federated Learning
• Dr. Henry Dai and Dr. Xin Huang Recognised as “2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention” by AMiner
• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Received RGC Senior Research Fellowship for Project in Advancing Facial Reenactment Detection for Speaker Verification against Fake Videos
• Dr. Qichen Wang Wins ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for Groundbreaking Data Science Research
• Dr. Kristen Yuanxi Li Receives the Honorable Mention in General Education Teaching Award AY2022/23 

2022 or before

• HKBU Computer Science Scholars Excel on Global Top Scientists List
• Computer Science Researchers Secure Record Results in RGC’s 2022/23 Research Funding Schemes
• Dr. Li Chen, Dr. Yucheng Jin and PhD student Wanling Cai Receive Honorable Mention at CHI 2022
• Computer Science Scholars and Graduate Win the Best Faculty Article Award from Chinese Communication Association
• Dr. Byron Choi Receives HKBU President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Individual Teaching
• Dr. Xin Huang and Dr. Jing Ma Named Recipients of “2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention” by AMiner
• Dr. Bo Han Awarded Tencent Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program for Machine Learning Research
• Dr. Jing Ma Recognised as The 2022 Woman in AI
• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Elected as AAAS Fellow by American Association for the Advancement of Science
• HKBU AI and Databases Ranked in World's Top 50 by CSRankings
• HKBU-led Secure Data Sharing and Analytics Research Project Awarded HK$6.7 Million Funding
• Professor Yike Guo Elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences
• COMP Receives CCF-AFSG Research Funding for Blockchain Technology Research
• HKBU Teaching and Learning Initiatives Receive International Recognition
• HKBU COMP Scholars Ranked the World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists by Stanford University
• Dr. Xin Huang Receives President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Young Researcher
• HKBU Computer Science Ranks No. 1 in Research Outputs in RAE 2020
• Professor Xiaowen Chu and His Team Win the Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2021
• HKBU COMP Scholars Rank the World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists by Stanford University
• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Is Awarded as Chair Professor of Changjiang Scholars, Ministry of Education
• Teaching and Learning Projects Win International Recognition
• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung and His Team Win the Best Theoretical Paper Award in WI-IAT 2020
• Professor Xiaowen Chu and His Team Win the Best Paper Award in GreenCom 2020
• Assistant Professor Dr. Xin Huang Is Awarded RGC’s Early Career Award
• Dr. Martin Choy Receives Faculty Performance Award in Teaching
• Dr. Li Chen and PhD Student Wanling Cai Win the Best Student Paper Award in UMAP’20
• Professor Jianliang Xu, Dr. Xin Huang and PhD Student Jinbin Huang Win the Best Paper Award in WISE 2019
• Dr. Li Chen and PhD Graduate Wen Wu Win the 2018 UMUAI James Chen Best Paper Award
• HKBU Teams Clinch First E-Learning Forum Asia Awards
• Dr. Martin Choy Receives Faculty Performance Award in Team Teaching
• COMP Ranks Within the Top 50 in Publications of Artificial Intelligence and Databases in CSRankings
• Professor Jiming Liu and Professor Pong-chi Yuen Receive Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards 2018 from the Ministry of Education
• Professor Pong-chi Yuen Names IAPR Fellow
• Professor Xiaowen Chu and PhD Students Shaohuai Shi and Qiang Wang Won the Best Paper Award in IEEE DataCom 2018
• COMP Research Team Breaks World Record for Training ImageNet in Four Minutes
• US Patent Granted for Dr. Byron Choi and Dr. Yun Peng
• Prof. Yuen Pong-chi received Faculty Performance Award in Service
• Prof. Xu Jianliang received President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching
• Professor Cheung Yiu-ming’s Invention Win Top Award at International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
• US Patent Granted for Dr. Carmen Lam
• HKBU Online Public Speaking Learning Platform Wins International Award
• Professor Liu Jiming Won 7th Wu Wen Jun A.I. Science & Technology Award
• Professor Cheung Yiu-ming’s Invention Clinches Hong Kong Innovative Invention Award Gold Medal from FITMI
• Professor Cheung Yiu-ming Elected IEEE Fellow
• Professor Xu Jianliang received President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work
• Dr. Carmen Lam received Faculty Performance Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching
• Professor Cheung Yiu-ming Won Gold Medal in International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
• Professor Cheung Yiu-ming Elected Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology
• Associate Professor Byron Choi receives President's Award for Outstanding Young Researcher
• COMP Faculty and Student Win Best Paper Award for Co-authored Paper at International Conference
• Assistant Professor Haiping Lu Receives RGC’s Early Career Award
• Professor Yiu-ming Cheung and PhD Student Fangqing Gu Win Best Paper Award for Co-authored Paper at ICNC & FSKD 2014
• US Patent Granted for Professors Clement Leung and Jiming Liu
• Dr. Bo Xiao received the Best Paper Award in the e-CASE & e-Tech 2012
• Dr. Cheung Yiu-ming Receives Patent for Infrared-spectrum-based Recognition System for Identifying Chinese Herb Species
• President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching and Long Service Awards
• Prof. Jiming Liu Named IEEE Fellow
• Best Paper Award
• Professor Joseph Ng Wins Innovative Wi-Fi Services and Applications Award
• Professor Joseph Ng Catches Spirit of High-tech Olympics with Innovative Wi-Fi System
• Prof. Joseph Ng Obtained a Patent
• President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work and Long Service Awards
• Most Cited Paper Award
• Prof. Yuen-Yan Tang Was Presented Outstanding Contribution Award
• Professor Joseph K. Y. Ng Got a Patent from the German Patent Office
• Prof Tang Yuan Yan Received the First Class of Natural Science Award of Technology Development Centre, Ministry of Education of the PRC
• HK$6.2 Million Grant for Innovative Project
• Dr. Pong-chi Yuen Has Been Awarded Croucher Advanced Study Institute Grant
• HK$3.8 Million Research Grant Awarded to Computer Science Department
• Prof. Jiming Liu and Prof. Yuan Yan Tang Have Founded Launching New International Journals
• Prof. Yuan-yan Tang Named IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow