A selection of my awards and media coverages, sorted by time.
π Google Research Scholar Award, 2021
π’ HDSI@UCSD: Jingbo Shang, Runner-Up ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award
π’ CS@Illinois News: Shangβs Research Flourishes under the Right Guidance, Sustains Illinois CS Success in Data Mining, 2020
π SIGKDD Dissertation Award Runner-up, 2020
π IEEEXtreme 13.0 World Champion, 2019
π IEEEXtreme 12.0 World Champion, 2018 [Details]
π The Web Conference Best Poster Award Runner-up, 2018
π 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]
π Google PhD Fellowship, 2017 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, 2017. github repo
π’ Google AI Blog: Announcing 2017 Google PhD fellows, 2017
π’ CS@Illinois News: Two Illinois Graduate Students Win Google Fellowship, 2017
π’ Illinois Tech Association: Champion Picture, 2017
π’ CS@Illinois News: Illinois Team Tests Problem-Solving Skills at ICPC 2017. Iβm the teamβs coach.
π Grand prize, Yelp Dataset Challenge, [Yelp], 2016
π’ TripAdvisor Blog: Mining Text for Review Snippets., 2016. My phrase mining methods are utilized and appreciated.
π’ CS@Illinois News: Illinois Team Advances to ICPC World Finals., 2016. Iβm the teamβs coach.
π’ Yelp: Winners of Yelp Dataset Challenges., 2016. Iβm Round 5 winner.
π Runner-up, Prostate Cancer DREAM challenge, [DREAM Challenge], 2015
π’ TripAdvisor Blog: Using NLP to Find βInterestingβ Collections of Hotels, 2015
π’ National Institute of Health BD2K Center: UIUC Teams Won Twice in the Recent DREAM Prostate Cancer Challenges., 2015
π Computer Science Excellence Fellowship, [CS@ILLINOIS], 2014
π’ Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2014
π’ Zhiyuan Excellent Student Scholarship (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2014
π Gold medal, 2nd Place, Asian Champion in ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) World Finals 2013. Much more related awards in Experience.
π National Scholarship (China), 2012
π’ SJTU News: Zhiyuan Students Win Championship at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Finals, 2012