Awards

Best Paper Award @PODS 2025

Awarded to Output-sensitive Conjunctive Query Evaluation (and Output-Optimal Algorithms for Join-Aggregate Queries by Xiao Hu).

Distinguished Paper Award @PODS 2025

Awarded to Tight Bounds of Circuits for Sum-Product Queries (along with others).

Distinguished Paper Award @PODS 2024

Awarded to Conjunctive Queries with Negation and Aggregation: A Linear Time Characterization (along with others).

DeWitt Graduate Fellowship @UW-Madison 2024

One-year fellowship awarded to a Ph.D. candidate in Database Group.

Computer Sciences Summer Fellowship @UW-Madison 2022

Awarded to first-year graduate students based on academic excellence and the quality of the expected outcomes of the proposed research project.

R. Creighton Buck Prize Fund Award @UW-Madison 2021

Awarded to a graduating math major who has completed the best capstone experience as determined by the awards committee.

Violet Higgitt Frank Scholarship @UW-Madison 2021

Awarded to one or more students in the College of Letters & Science with special preference to be given to a student or students majoring in mathematics.

Guanghua Scholarship @Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2018

Awarded to undergraduate students with good academic performance.