2025
IEEE Fellow
For contributions to collaboration theory, models, and systems.
Awards & distinctions
Research, service, teaching, and professional recognition recorded across more than three decades.
2025
Best Paper Award
IEEE 28th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2025).
2024
Service Award
IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design. Conference numbering in the source requires verification.
2022
Best Paper Award for International Collaboration
IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2022).
2018
Meritorious Service Award
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
2017
Profiled in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine
Volume 3, number 3, pages 26-29.
2015
Hunan Overseas Outstanding Professor
Education Bureau of Hunan Province, China.
2014
Best Student Paper Award
Effective Approaches to Adaptive Collaboration, IEEE ICNSC 2014.
2013-2014
Research Achievement Award
Nipissing University.
2010-2011
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research
Nipissing University.
2007-2010
Service Awards
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems.
2006-2007
Research Achievement Award
Nipissing University.
2005
IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant Award
IBM.
2004
Best Paper Award
11th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering.
2004
IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant Award
IBM.
2003
Educator's Fellowship
OOPSLA 2003.
2002-2003
Included in Contemporary Who's Who
American Biographical Institute.
1998
Sheng Yirun Distinguished Computer Research and Education Prize
Changsha Institute of Technology.
1998
Outstanding Master Student Supervisor Award
Changsha Institute of Technology.
1997
Second Class National Award of Education Achievement
Ministry of Education of China, for contributions to computer education.
1991, 1994, 1997
First Class Ministry-level Research Achievement Awards
Department of Defense of China.
1996
Second Class Research Paper Award
Hunan Provincial Commission of Science and Technology.
1996
Second Class Excellent Textbook Award
Ministry of Electronics Industry of China.
1996
Ci Yungui Computer Research Prize
For contributions to computer research at Changsha Institute of Technology.
1996
Second Class Ministry-level Research Achievement Award
Department of Defense of China.
The 2024 CSCWD service-award entry has an inconsistent conference number in the source and is labeled conservatively here.