President’s Award for Excellent Performance / Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2009.
Outstanding Award in Research and Scholarly Activities, Faculty of Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2009.
Best paper award, 4th IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-08)
Research Grant Achievement Award, Faculty of Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University – 2008, 2007, 2003.
Performance Reward, Hong Kong Polytechnic University – 2007, 2006.
Second Class Award, 2006 National Science and Technology Progress Award - 2006年度国家科学技术进步二等奖 (as a team member of the project "Coordination in Object-Oriented and Agent-Oriented Software Systems: Technology, Platform, and Applications" - 对象化与主体化的软件协同技术、平台与应用"), J-220-2-14, 2006.
Best paper award, 2nd IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-06)
中创软件人才奖 - 2005 CVIC SE Software Talent Award (Awarded by CVIC SE - Largest Software Company in China, recognized by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology - 中国最大软件企业-中创软件公司出资设立, 国家科技部认可的国家级奖)
China Computer Federation and IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Service Award for service to International Conference on Computer Networks and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC'2005), Hunan, China, Aug. 2 – 4, 2005.
First Class Award, 2003 Ministry of Education Nominated State Science and Technology Award (2003年度教育部提名国家科学技术一等奖 - as team member of the project “Object-orientation and Mobile Agent Technology” - 面向對象與移動Agent技術研究), Ministry of Education, China, 2004.
Honorary Adviser, Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Society (香 港 聯 校 電 子 及 電 腦 學 會 - HKJSECS)
Keynote speech at TSP’09: The 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications, Oct. 12-14, 2009. Macau, China. ("Secure Localization and Location Verification in Wireless Sensor Networks")
Keynote speech at WISA’09: The 6th Web Information Systems and Applications Conference, , Sept. 19, 2009. XuZhou, Jiangsu, China. ("Ubiquitous Search in Integrated Physical-Cyber Worlds")
Panelist on "Pervasive Computing: Key Technologies and Adoption" at IEEE Percom'09: 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. March 9 – 13, 2009. Galveston, Texas, USA
Keynote speech at CSSE’08: 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Wuhan, China - December 12~14, 2008. ("Middleware Challenges in Pervasive Computing")
Keynote speech at ICYCS’08: 9th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Zhang Jia Jie, Hunan, China – Nov. 18-21, 2008. ("Seamless Wireless Communications for Pervasive Internet Access")
Panelist on "Mobile and Pervasive Computing: Continued Challenges and Issues" at ICCCN’08: 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks. Aug. 3 – 7, 2008. St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, USA.
Panelist on "Next-Generation Wireless Networking: Opportunities and Challenges" at QShine’08: 5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness. July 28 – 31, 2008. Hong Kong, China.
Keynote Speech at Polynet IT Security Symposium 2008, June 4 – 5 2008, Hong Kong ("Seamless Wireless Communications for Pervasive Internet Access")
Invited talk on “Research and Advance in Pervasive Computing Theory and Technology”, Chinese Ministry of Education’s Advanced Workshop, Dec. 10, 2007, Beijing. ("Mobile Computing and Wireless Sensory Networks in Pervasive Computing")
Panelist on "Future Trends of Autonomic and Ubiquitous Computing? " at UIC’07: 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Hong Kong, July 11 – 13 , 200 7 .
Keynote speech at WoGTA-2006: 3rd Workshop on Grid Technologies and Applications, December 7-8, 2006, Chung Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. ("Integration of Grid and P2P Computing Technologies")
Invited talk at Wireless and Mobile Computing Seminar, organized by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) of HKSAR, Sept . 2 9 , 200 6 . ("Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications")
Keynote speech at IMECS-2006: The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2006 (organized by International Association of Engineers – IAENG), Hong Kong, June 20 – 22. 2006. ("Research in Mobile Computing Middleware")
Keynote speech and tutorial at BSRC-2006: 24 th Annual Brazilian Symposium of Networks of Computers (organized by the Brazilian Society of Computers – SBC), Curitiba - PR, Brazil, May 29 – June 2, 2006. (Keynote on "Cooperative Caching in MP2P Systems over MANET"; Tutorial on "Query Processing in P2P Systems")
Panelist on "Computer Architecture for Pervasive Computing" at CNCC-05 (2005 China National Computer Congress), Wuhan, China, Oct. 13-15, 2005.
Invited talk at Wireless and Mobile Transaction Seminar and Showcase, organized by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) of HKSAR, Jan. 21, 2005. ("PDAgent – A Platform for Deploying Mobile Agent Enabled Mobile Applications on Wireless Handheld Devices")
Invited tutorial at IWDC-2004: 6th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, Dec. 27 - 31, 2004, Calcutta, India. ("Mobile Agent and Applications in Networking and Distributed Computing")
Invited keynote s peech at ICPP-HPSEC-04 : 2004 Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing , in conjunction with 33 rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP04), August 15-18, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ("ClusterGOP: A High-Level Parallel Programming Environment")
Invited speech at the International Forum on Advanced Grid Computing Technology in Pacific-Rim, March 21-22, 2004, Aizu, Japan. ("Fault Tolerance in Grid Computing")
Invited speech at Advanced Workshop in Spatial Information Technology, Hong Kong, Sept. 20 2002. ("Mobile Agent Technology and its Applications in Mobile Computing")