• Undergraduate Research Initiative (URI), Xiang Lian (supervisor) and Ms. Janette Garcia (undergraduate student), "Probabilistic Transitive Nearest Neighbor Queries on Road Networks", the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, USA, February, 2016, $2,000;
  
  
• Grant of Faculty Research Council (FRC), Xiang Lian (PI), "Efficient and Accurate Query Processing on Road Networks with Dynamic and Uncertain Traffic Conditions", the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, USA, January, 2015, $4,969.66;
  
  
• Departmental Research Travel Grant, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), San Francisco, CA, USA, Oct. 27 - Nov. 1, 2013;
  
  
• Grant of the Faculty Research Council (FRC), Xiang Lian (PI), "Search Your University", the University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, USA, February, 2012, $5,000;
  
  
• The HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers and Researchers, "Efficient Pattern Matching over Uncertain Data Streams", HKIE Transactions, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Hong Kong, China, September, 2009;
  
  
• Best Paper Award, "Inverse Ranking Queries over Uncertain Data", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'09), Brisbane, Australia, April, 2009;
  
  
• Research Travel Grant (RTG), Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB'10), Singapore, September, 2010;
  
  
• Research Travel Grant (RTG), ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD'10), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, March, 2010;
  
  
• Research Travel Grant (RTG), ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD'08), Vancouver, Canada, June, 2008;
  
  
• Travel Grant, International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'08), Nantes, France, March, 2008;
  
  
• Research Travel Grant (RTG), International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), Istanbul, Turkey, December, 2006;
  
  
• Postgraduate Studentships, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, 2003 - 2009;
  
  
• People Scholarships, Nanjing University, China, 2000 - 2002;
  
  
• IBM WSAD Certification, Nanjing University, China, 2002;
  
  
• China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), the third prize (Jiangsu Province), Nanjing University, China, 2002;
  
  
• China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), the first prize (Jiangsu Province), Nanjing University, China, 2001; and
  
  
• The Competition of CKC Chinese Input System, the third prize, Nanjing University, China, 2000.

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