In the 2018 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship selection, doctoral student Xu Fengli of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, was successfully selected. At the 20th "Computing in the 21stCentury" & Asia Faculty Summit held on November 6-7, 2018 in Beijing, China, Xu Fengli and other 10 award winners accepted the awards presented by Dr. Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft, and Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft, Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group and Dean of Microsoft Research Asia, and had a discussion with Professor Raj Reddy, winner of the 1994 Turing Award, and Professor Yao Qizhi, winner of the 2000 Turing Award.
2018 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award Ceremony, Hyatt Regency Beijing Wangjing, November 6, 2018 From left to right successively: Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft, Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group and Dean of Microsoft Research Asia; Xu Fengli; Dr. Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft
The one in the middle is Professor Raj Reddy, winner of the 1994 Turing Award, the second from left is Xu Fengli
The selection activity this year attracted the applications of over one hundred doctoral students from 40 well-known colleges and universities and research institutes in places such as Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. After the strict assessment and review of the jury, a total of 11 excellent doctoral students in the computer field stood out and became the new "Microsoft Fellows" in 2018, winning the cash awards of USD 10,000 from Microsoft Research Asia and a 3-month academic visit opportunity.
Xu Fengli studies at the Data Science & Intelligence Lab of the Department of Electronic Engineering for a doctoral degree under the guidance of Professor Jin Depeng and Associate Professor Li Yong. His main research interests are data-driven human behavior modeling and data privacy, and his long-term research goal is to design efficient and reliable behavior pattern mining algorithms and data privacy protection models, and fully explore and realize the value contained in the increasingly abundant behavioral big data. His phased research results on mining and modeling human mobility behavior patterns, network access behavior patterns and social interaction behavior patterns are published at ACM UBICOMP, CSCW, IMC and other international academic conferences; his phased research results on data privacy protection mechanism are published at WWW and TON and other international academic conferences and journals.
In previous selections, Qin Tao et al. of the Department of Electronic Engineering also won the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship in 2006.
