List of major awards received by my PhD and Masters' students

• Yan Luo, PhD student, First Prize for Best Clinical Research Presentation (with David DeAngelis and Charles Ling), at 2nd Annual Diabetes Research Day organized by the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, UWO. Nov. 2011.
  With Dr. Rob Petrella (a physician and Professor of Family Medicine at Western), we have just finished a clinical trial on the effectiveness of GlucoGuide with actual Type-2 diabetic patients. The results are very positive. We are writing papers reporting the GlucoGuide system, algorithms, and the trial outcome.
• David DeAngelis, M.Sc. student (see above)
• Xiao Li, PhD student, First Prize in Data Mining, UWO Research in Computer Science (UWORCS) 2012; First Prize in Software Demo, UWORCS 2012.
• Da Kuang, PhD student, Second Prize in AI, UWORCS 2011; IJCAI Travel Award, 2011.
• Eileen Ni, PhD student, Second Prize in Data Mining, UWORCS 2012
• Jun Du, PhD student, First Prize in AI Session, UWORCS 2011; Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2009-2011; Graduate Thesis Research Award at UWO 2010; Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2008; Second Prize in AI Session, UWORCS 2009; Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Travel Award 2008.
• Victor Sheng, PhD student, Computer Science Publications Incentive Awards, 3 times (2004, 2005, 2006); NSERC Post-graduate Scholarship (2005-2008); Best Poster Award, The UW and IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section Joint Workshop on Knowledge and Data Mining (2006); NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2009); Travel Grants from several conferences