{"id":35,"date":"2025-03-25T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:26:46","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/huanliu\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards, Services, and Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zhen Tan, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpal.cc\/rising_stars_guidelines\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cpal.cc\/rising_stars_awardees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CPAL Raising Star Award 2026<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lo Pang-Yun Ting, Zhen Tan, et al. &#8220;CAND: Cross-Sign Ambiguity Inference for Early Detecting Nuanced Illness Deterioration&#8221; , <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> at t<a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/group?id=NeurIPS.cc\/2025\/Workshop\/TS4H&amp;referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-accept-spotlight\">he TS4H workshop<\/a> @ NeurIPS 2025, December 6, 2025, San Diego, CA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chengshuai Zhao, et al., &#8220;CyberBOT: Towards Reliable Cybersecurity Education via Ontology-Grounded Retrieval Augmented Generation&#8221;, <strong>Best Paper Award <\/strong>in ACM <a href=\"https:\/\/cikm2025.org\/\">CIKM2025 Demo Papers Track<\/a>, November 10 &#8211; 14, 2 025, Seoul, Korea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ujun Jeong, et al., &#8220;Fediverse Sharing: Cross-platform interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users\u201d, <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> in ASONAM Multidisciplinary Track, August 25-28, 2025, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dawei Li, et al., &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=Wu6doL0AAAAJ&amp;sortby=pubdate&amp;citation_for_view=Wu6doL0AAAAJ:7PzlFSSx8tAC\">Preference leakage: A contamination problem in LLM-as-a-judge<\/a>&#8220;, <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> in the Workshop of DIG-BUGS@ICML, July 13-19, 2025, Vancouver, Canada.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhen Tan, <strong>Graduate College Enrichment Fellowship<\/strong>, Graduate College, ASU. Fall 2025 &#8211; Spring 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ashwin&nbsp;Rajadesingan, Reza Zafarani<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;<em><strong>WSDM Test of Time&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsdm-conference.org\/2025\/\">2025<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;&nbsp;Award<\/em> for &#8220;Sarcasm detection on twitter: A behavioral modeling approach&#8221; at WSDM2015<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsdm-conference.org\/2025\/\">ACM WSDM2025<\/a>, March 10 &#8211; 14, 2025, Hanover, Germany. <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/2684822.2685316\">ACM Library Feature<\/a> Article<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bohan Jiang, et al.&nbsp;<strong>Best Student Paper Award<\/strong>&nbsp;for `<strong>`Catching Chameleons: Detecting Evolving Disinformation Generated using Large Language Models&#8221;<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>IEEE&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sis.pitt.edu\/lersais\/conference\/cogmi\/2024\/\">CogMI2024<\/a><\/strong>, October 27 &#8211; 30, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ahmet Kapkic,&nbsp;Pratanu Mandal, Shu Wan, Paras Sheth, Abhinav Gorantla, Yoonhyuk Choi, Huan Liu, and K. Selcuk Candan.&nbsp;<strong>Best Demo Papeer Award&nbsp;<\/strong>for&nbsp;&#8220;Introducing CausalBench: A Flexible Benchmark Framework for Causal Analysis and Machine Learning&#8221;,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cikm2024.org\/accepted-papers\/\">CIKM2024<\/a>, October 21-25, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhen Tan, et al., <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> for &#8220;Interpreting Pretrained Language Models via Concept Bottlenecks&#8221;, PAKDD 2024,&nbsp;May 7-10, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Raha Moraffah, 2023-24 <strong>Dean&#8217;s Dissertation Award in<\/strong> the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huan Liu,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/email.mg.research.com\/c\/eJxkyz2OwyAQxfHTQBc0zIyBFBTb-B4YxjHa2In4uP9KW0W73dP76V9iAVtS0RKttxR8CID6iLDIPTviwLIh0LJ5i7IB-MJLkBJ0jQjIwEiW0LE1vC8SyDu8uyU43hXD-TBNuqSWD5Nfp37GY4x3V_SlcFW4fqLCtecq16h99FtL13e9Hl3hml_new5pt1_Ools8ZrrMs07FkPo0UqYesZ0EhsxuP7f5V4_49_oJAAD__yDQUTM__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!eSgGmbpTjtmd52a7o1WrcIAHdXEn3fr3t9_jRhaioD94ErRNvpqWl5jiddj_mL_Dbwmd88P7_tKcZFsD$\">ranked 72 in the world and 46 in the United States,<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.com\/careers\/world-online-ranking-of-best-computer-scientists-2024-report\">Research.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amrita Bhattacharjee,&nbsp;Tharindu Kumarage, Raha Moraffah,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaclmeeting\/status\/1720720160762540069?s=46&amp;t=83pTsZDVULIcERMnjyj_aQ\"><strong>Outstanding Paper Awar<\/strong>d<\/a>&nbsp;for &#8220;ConDA: Constrastive Domain Adaptation for AI-generated Text Detection&#8221;,&nbsp; IJCNLP-AACL 2023,&nbsp;November 4, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Kaize Ding, SCAI Computer Science PhD Outstanding Student Award Spring 2023,&nbsp;June 8, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Lu Cheng, the&nbsp; 2022 International Neural Network Society Doctoral Dissertation Award (Runner-up), IJCNN2023, Gold Coast, Australia June 18 &#8211; 23, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huan Liu, Regents Professor, Arizona State University, January 2023&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20230207-university-news-regents-professor-ai-explorer-4-decades\">ASU News<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huan Liu, Ira A. Fulton Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, ASU, October, 2022 &#8211; 2027<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huan Liu,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kdd.org\/kdd2022\/\">ACM SIGKDD<\/a>2022&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kdd.org\/awards\/sigkdd-innovation-award\">Innovation Award<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;for his outstanding contributions to the foundation, principles and applications of social media mining and feature selection for data mining&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kaize Ding<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;<em><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong><\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trustlogworkshop.github.io\/\">TrustLOG Workshop<\/a>, CIKM2022, October 21, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kaize Ding, Graduate College Completion Fellowship, Fall 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kaize Ding,the 2021-2022ASU GPSA Outstanding Research Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Lu Cheng,<strong> SCAI CS PhD Outstanding Student Award (2022)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Lu Cheng, Fulton Schools of Engineering 2021-2022 Dean&#8217;s Dissertation Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Kai Shu, Finalist, the 2021 BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Ruocheng Guo, CIDSE CS PhD Outstanding Student Award (2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mohit Doshi, Senior, Fulton Schools of Engineering 2021&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fullcircle.asu.edu\/graduate\/mohit-doshi\/\">Impact Award<\/a>, Computer Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Kai Shu, Fulton Schools of Engineering 2020 Dean&#8217;s Disseration Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lu Cheng<strong>, ASU GPSA 2020-2021 Outstanding Research Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>IEEE Fellow Evaluating Committee, Vice Chair, 2026 &#8211;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Editor in Chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/journal\/TIST\">ACM TIST<\/a>, August 1, 2021 &#8211; July 31, 2027<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Founding Field&nbsp; Chief Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/big-data\">Frontiers in Big Data <\/a>(2019 &#8211; ) and founding Specialty Chief Editor of Data Mining and Management&nbsp; (2018- )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best Paper Award Co-Chair, WSDM 2027, Hong Kong, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdataieee.org\/BigData2026\/\">IEEE BigData 2026<\/a>, Dec 14-17, 2026 at Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, AZ<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General Co-Chair, IEEE CogMI 2026, November 4-6, 2026. San Jose, CA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ACM WSDM <a href=\"https:\/\/wsdm26.causalbench.org\/\">Workshop on Benchmarking Causal Models (CausalBench26)<\/a> , February 26, 2026, Boise, Idaho. Workshop Co-Chair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NSF SFS PI Meeting and Symposium 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberaiedu.github.io\/\">Workshop on Cybersecurity, AI, and Education<\/a>, February 16, 2026. Workshop Co-Chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ruocheng Guo, Jundong Li, and Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US12014267B2\/en\">Systems and Methods for Sequential Event Prediction with Noise-Contrastive Estimation for Marked Temporal Point Process<\/a>&#8220;,&nbsp; US Patent 12,014,267; Date of Patent: 6\/18\/2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lu Cheng, Kai Shu, Siqi Wu, Yasin Silva, Deborah Hall, Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11916866B2\/en\">Systems and Methods for Unsupervised Cyberbullying Detection via Time-Informed Gaussian Mixture Model<\/a>&#8220;, US Patent 11,916,866; Date of Patent: 02\/27\/2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11907666B2\/en\">Systems And Methods For Utility-Preserving Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Text Anonymization<\/a>&#8220;, US Paent 11,907,666; Date of Patent: 02\/20\/2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ghazaleh Beigi, Kai Shu, Suhang Wang, Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=Dzf46C8AAAAJ&amp;sortby=pubdate&amp;citation_for_view=Dzf46C8AAAAJ:upAolQDU9rYC\">Systems and Methods for A Privacy Preserving Text Representation Learning Framework<\/a>&#8220;, US Patent 11,763,093; Date of Patent: 2023\/9\/19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai Shu, Suhang Wang, Jiliang Tang, Yilin Wang, Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patentimages.storage.googleapis.com\/03\/d4\/ff\/fc6a545f98682b\/US11593891B2.pdf\">Systems and Methods for a Cross Media Joint Friend and Item Recommendation Framework<\/a>&#8220;, <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.justia.com\/patent\/11593891\">US Patent 11,593,891<\/a>; Date of Patent: 2023\/2\/28<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kai Shu, Deepak Mahudeswaran, Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11494446B2\/en\">Method and apparatus for collecting, detecting and visualizing fake news<\/a>&#8220;, US Patent 11,494,446; Date of Patent: 2022\/11\/8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ghazaleh Beigi, Ruocheng Guo, Huan Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Alexander Nou. &#8220;Privacy protection systems and methods&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11436371B2\/en\">US Patent 11,436,371;<\/a> Date of Patent: 2022\/9\/6<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liang Wu and Huan Liu. &#8220;Method and Apparatus for Detecting Fake News in a Social Media Network&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.justia.com\/patent\/11418476\">US Patent 11,418,476<\/a>; Date of Patent: 2022\/08\/16<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jundong Li, Harsh Dani, Xia Hu, and Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11360928B2\/en\">Systems and methods for improved anomaly detection in attributed networks<\/a>&#8220;, <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.justia.com\/patent\/11360928\">US Patent 11,360,928<\/a>; Data of Patent: 2022\/6\/14<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jundong Li, Xia Ben Hu, Jiliang Tang, and Huan Liu. &#8220;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Systems and methods for unsupervised streaming feature selection in social media<\/a>&#8220;,&nbsp; 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