Awards, Services, and Patents

Awards

Zhen Tan, CPAL Raising Star Award 2026
Lo Pang-Yun Ting, Zhen Tan, et al. “CAND: Cross-Sign Ambiguity Inference for Early Detecting Nuanced Illness Deterioration” , Best Paper Award at the TS4H workshop @ NeurIPS 2025, December 6, 2025, San Diego, CA.
Chengshuai Zhao, et al., “CyberBOT: Towards Reliable Cybersecurity Education via Ontology-Grounded Retrieval Augmented Generation”, Best Paper Award in ACM CIKM2025 Demo Papers Track, November 10 – 14, 2 025, Seoul, Korea.
Ujun Jeong, et al., “Fediverse Sharing: Cross-platform interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users”, Best Paper Award in ASONAM Multidisciplinary Track, August 25-28, 2025, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada.
Dawei Li, et al., “Preference leakage: A contamination problem in LLM-as-a-judge“, Best Paper Award in the Workshop of DIG-BUGS@ICML, July 13-19, 2025, Vancouver, Canada.
Zhen Tan, Graduate College Enrichment Fellowship, Graduate College, ASU. Fall 2025 – Spring 2026
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Reza Zafarani “WSDM Test of Time 2025” Award for “Sarcasm detection on twitter: A behavioral modeling approach” at WSDM2015, ACM WSDM2025, March 10 – 14, 2025, Hanover, Germany. ACM Library Feature Article
Bohan Jiang, et al. Best Student Paper Award for ``Catching Chameleons: Detecting Evolving Disinformation Generated using Large Language Models”, IEEE CogMI2024, October 27 – 30, 2024
Ahmet Kapkic, Pratanu Mandal, Shu Wan, Paras Sheth, Abhinav Gorantla, Yoonhyuk Choi, Huan Liu, and K. Selcuk Candan. Best Demo Papeer Award for “Introducing CausalBench: A Flexible Benchmark Framework for Causal Analysis and Machine Learning”, CIKM2024, October 21-25, 2024
Zhen Tan, et al., Best Paper Award for “Interpreting Pretrained Language Models via Concept Bottlenecks”, PAKDD 2024, May 7-10, 2024
Dr. Raha Moraffah, 2023-24 Dean’s Dissertation Award in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Huan Liu, ranked 72 in the world and 46 in the United States, Research.com
Amrita Bhattacharjee, Tharindu Kumarage, Raha Moraffah, Outstanding Paper Award for “ConDA: Constrastive Domain Adaptation for AI-generated Text Detection”, IJCNLP-AACL 2023, November 4, 2023
Dr. Kaize Ding, SCAI Computer Science PhD Outstanding Student Award Spring 2023, June 8, 2023
Dr. Lu Cheng, the 2022 International Neural Network Society Doctoral Dissertation Award (Runner-up), IJCNN2023, Gold Coast, Australia June 18 – 23, 2023
Huan Liu, Regents Professor, Arizona State University, January 2023 ASU News
Huan Liu, Ira A. Fulton Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, ASU, October, 2022 – 2027
Huan Liu, ACM SIGKDD2022 Innovation Award “for his outstanding contributions to the foundation, principles and applications of social media mining and feature selection for data mining”
Kaize Ding, Best Paper Award, TrustLOG Workshop, CIKM2022, October 21, 2022
Kaize Ding, Graduate College Completion Fellowship, Fall 2022
Kaize Ding,the 2021-2022ASU GPSA Outstanding Research Award
Dr. Lu Cheng, SCAI CS PhD Outstanding Student Award (2022)
Dr. Lu Cheng, Fulton Schools of Engineering 2021-2022 Dean’s Dissertation Award
Dr. Kai Shu, Finalist, the 2021 BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dr. Ruocheng Guo, CIDSE CS PhD Outstanding Student Award (2021)
Mohit Doshi, Senior, Fulton Schools of Engineering 2021 Impact Award, Computer Science
Dr. Kai Shu, Fulton Schools of Engineering 2020 Dean’s Disseration Award
Lu Cheng, ASU GPSA 2020-2021 Outstanding Research Award

Services

IEEE Fellow Evaluating Committee, Vice Chair, 2026 –
Editor in Chief, ACM TIST, August 1, 2021 – July 31, 2027
Founding Field Chief Editor Frontiers in Big Data (2019 – ) and founding Specialty Chief Editor of Data Mining and Management (2018- )
Best Paper Award Co-Chair, WSDM 2027, Hong Kong, China
IEEE BigData 2026, Dec 14-17, 2026 at Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, AZ
General Co-Chair, IEEE CogMI 2026, November 4-6, 2026. San Jose, CA
ACM WSDM Workshop on Benchmarking Causal Models (CausalBench26) , February 26, 2026, Boise, Idaho. Workshop Co-Chair
NSF SFS PI Meeting and Symposium 2026 Workshop on Cybersecurity, AI, and Education, February 16, 2026. Workshop Co-Chair

Patents

Ruocheng Guo, Jundong Li, and Huan Liu. “Systems and Methods for Sequential Event Prediction with Noise-Contrastive Estimation for Marked Temporal Point Process“, US Patent 12,014,267; Date of Patent: 6/18/2024
Lu Cheng, Kai Shu, Siqi Wu, Yasin Silva, Deborah Hall, Huan Liu. “Systems and Methods for Unsupervised Cyberbullying Detection via Time-Informed Gaussian Mixture Model“, US Patent 11,916,866; Date of Patent: 02/27/2024
David Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu. “Systems And Methods For Utility-Preserving Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Text Anonymization“, US Paent 11,907,666; Date of Patent: 02/20/2024
Ghazaleh Beigi, Kai Shu, Suhang Wang, Huan Liu. “Systems and Methods for A Privacy Preserving Text Representation Learning Framework“, US Patent 11,763,093; Date of Patent: 2023/9/19
Kai Shu, Suhang Wang, Jiliang Tang, Yilin Wang, Huan Liu. “Systems and Methods for a Cross Media Joint Friend and Item Recommendation Framework“, US Patent 11,593,891; Date of Patent: 2023/2/28
Kai Shu, Deepak Mahudeswaran, Huan Liu. “Method and apparatus for collecting, detecting and visualizing fake news“, US Patent 11,494,446; Date of Patent: 2022/11/8
Ghazaleh Beigi, Ruocheng Guo, Huan Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Alexander Nou. “Privacy protection systems and methods”, US Patent 11,436,371; Date of Patent: 2022/9/6
Liang Wu and Huan Liu. “Method and Apparatus for Detecting Fake News in a Social Media Network”, US Patent 11,418,476; Date of Patent: 2022/08/16
Jundong Li, Harsh Dani, Xia Hu, and Huan Liu. “Systems and methods for improved anomaly detection in attributed networks“, US Patent 11,360,928; Data of Patent: 2022/6/14
Jundong Li, Xia Ben Hu, Jiliang Tang, and Huan Liu. “Systems and methods for unsupervised streaming feature selection in social media“, US Patent 10,942,939; Date of Patent: 2021-03-09
Pritam Gundecha, Jiliang Tang, and Huan Liu. “Systems and methods for predicting personal attributes based on public interaction data”. United States Patent No. 10,665,764; Date of Patent: May 26, 2020.
Reza Zafarani and Huan Liu. “User Identification Across Social Media”. United States Patent No. 9,544,381; Date of Patent: January 10, 2017.
Hua-Jun Zeng, Jian-Tao Sun, Wei-Ying Ma, Zheng Chen, Benyu Zhang, and Huan Liu. “Augmenting User, Query, and Document Triplets Using Singular Value Decomposition. Patent No.: US 7,747,618, B2; Date of Patent: Jun. 29, 2010.