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.