• 2024, COMAC Outstanding Scientist
• 2022, Excellent Student Paper Award (APWeb-WAIM 2022)
• 2021, Best Resource Paper Award (CCKS 2021)
• 2019, Wang Kuancheng Education Award
• 2018, Best Paper Award (NASAC 2018)
• 2018, Best Paper Award (ICBK 2018)
• 2018, Best Student Paper Award Candidate (ISWC 2018)
• 2016, Best Paper Award (The 27th ISSRE)
• 2014, IEEE Outstanding Service Award (The 14th IEEE CIT)
• 2013, Google Faculty Award
• 2010, IBM-CHINA Outstanding Teacher Award
• 2010, Young Scientist Award of ShaanXi Province
• 2009, National Second-class Award for Teaching
• 2008, New Century Excellent Talent of the Education Ministry of China
• 2006, Second Class Award for National Progress in Science and Technology
• 2004, Second Class Award of Progress in Science and Technology of the Education Ministry of China
• 2004, First Class Award of Progress in Science and Technology of Shanghai City
• 2003, First Class Award of Progress in Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province
• 2003, “Hu’s” Scholarship in XJTU

Professor
Department of Computer Science
School of Electronic and Information Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an 710049, China

Director of Xi'an Jiaotong University - Lenovo Smart Industries Joint Lab (2022~);
Director of Institute of Multimedia Knowledge Fusion and Engineering (2020~);

Former Director of Shaanxi Province Key Lab of  Big Data Knowledge Engineering (2012~2023).

Associate Editor: IEEE TNNLS (2020 ~); Area  Editor: Information Fusion (2024 ~); 

Guest Editor: World Wide Web Journal, Information Fusion, ACM TOMM, IEEE Systems Journal, Future Generation Computer Systems     
IEEE Senior Member, CCF Senior Member

• 12/2011–Present   Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, XJTU, China
• 7/2019–8/2019     Senior Visiting Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• 8/2017–9/2017     Senior Visiting Fellow, Stanford University, USA
• 7/2016–8/2016     Senior Visiting Fellow, Queensland University, Australia
• 7/2011–8/2011     Visiting Scholar, Iowa State University, USA
• 7/1998–12/2011   Lecturer, Assoc. Prof., Department of Computer Science, XJTU, China
• 5/2005–8/2005     Visiting Scholar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
• 9/1999–3/2004     Ph.D., Systems Engineering, XJTU, China
• 9/1995–7/1998     M.Eng., Computer Architecture, XJTU, China 
• 9/1991–7/1995     B.Eng., Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China

• 1/2023–12/2027   Deep understanding of diagrams through the integration of visual perception laws and inherent mechanisms, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62450005)
• 1/2023–12/2027   Cross-media teaching resources understanding and personalized navigation learning, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62293553)
• 1/2023–12/2023   Visual Perception Principles induced Diagram understanding, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62250066)
• 1/2022–12/2025   Representation Learning and Differentiable Reasoning of First-order Logic Formulas, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62176207)
• 1/2020–10/2020   Intelligent Tutoring Systems based on Knowledge Forest, funded by Lenovo Research
• 5/2018–4/2021     Educational Data Analysis and Mining, funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFB1004500)
• 1/2017–12/2020   Faceted Fusion of Knowledge Fragments from Open Knowledge Sources, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61672419)
• 1/2016–12/2020   Massive Online Collaborative Learning, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61532004)
• 1/2012–12/2014   Content Management and Analysis of Massive Web Data, funded by the Hi-Tech R&D (National 863) Project of China (2012AA011003)
• 7/2008–7/2010     Knowledge Discovery and Value-added Service in the field of Education, funded by the Hi-Tech R&D (National 863) Project of China (2008AA01Z131)
• 1/2009–12/2011   Mining Knowledge Elements and their Association from Domain-specific Text, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60803079)
• 1/2012–12/2015   Topology and evolution characteristics of knowledge map, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61173112)

Research Interests: NLP, CV, e-learning