Awards and Honors

National Level in China

    1. 2008: CCF Wangxuan Award for Innovation, China Computer Federation.
    2. 2006: Distinguished Young Scholar of China (In Computer Science division, there were only 4 winners in year 2006 nationwide, and I was ranked No.1), National Natural Science Foundation, China.
    3. 2005: Winner of the Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project, Ministry of Education, China.
    4. 2001: China Youth Science and Technology Award (No more than 100 winners in all research areas every two years, nationwide) .The Organizing Department of CCCPC, Ministry of Personnel of the CPC Central Committee, China Association for Science and Technology.
    5. 2001: Awardee of Mao Yi-sheng Science and Technology Education Fund-Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award (Only one faculty awardee from Tsinghua University in that year), Science and Technology Development Foundation of China.
    6. 2001: The 10th National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Book Award (3rd class), Book Translation, Asynchronous Transfer Mode-Solution to B-ISDN, Translated by Shiduan Cheng and Bin Liu, written by Martin de Prycker, 3rd Version, ISBN: 9787115081988, General Administration of Press and Publication of the People’s Republic of China
    7. 2000: The National Outstanding University Young Teacher Award, China (Invited to be the first representative to give a speech in the Great Hall of the People at the promulgation ceremony). Ministry of Education, China.
    8. 1999: Trans-century Excellent Talents Award, Ministry of Education, China.
    9. 1999: The National Award for Technological Invention (3rd class), Ministry of Science and Technology, China (1st class is vacant in that year).
    10. 1998: The Scientific and Technical Progress Award (2nd class), Ministry of Education, China.

University Level

    1. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Adviser Award (Year 2008, 2006, 2005 respectively).
    2. 2006: Outstanding SRT (Student Research Training) Project Adviser Award.
    3. 2000: Top Research Project Awards, Tsinghua University.
    4. 1999/1998: Excellent Teaching Award of Tsinghua University (twice).
    5. 1997: Outstanding Individual Award, Tsinghua University.

International Level

    1. Best Paper Award (among over 800 accepted papers): Kai Zheng, Hongbin Lu, Bin Liu, Scalable Route Lookup Scheme with Small Forwarding Table and Fast Update Capability, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Communication (ICCC 2004), Sept. 15-17, 2004