• University-level Teaching Excellence Award 2023/2024, University of Macau, 2024.
  • FST Teaching Excellence Award 2023/2024, University of Macau, 2024.
  • The Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award, Macao Science and Technology Award 2022
  • 2021/2022 Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff, presented by the University of Macau Development Foundation (UMDF) of the University of Macau (UM), 2022.
  • FST Research Excellence Award, presented by the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM), 2022.
  • FST Teaching Excellence Award 2017/2018, University of Macau, 2018.
  • The Second Prize of Macau Science and Technology Progress Award, Macao Science and Technology Award 2012.
  • Ranked 1st for Machine Translation – Quality Estimation on Multilingual/English-Russian Translation Systems, The Seventh Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2022), 2022
  • Ranked 2nd for Machine Translation – Quality Estimation on English-German and Chinese-English Translation Systems, The Seventh Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2022), 2022
  • Ranked 1st for Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on Chinese-English/Czech-English/German-English/Japanese-English Translation Systems, The Sixth Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2021), 2021
  • Ranked 2nd for Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on Hausa-English and Icelandic-English Translation Systems, The Sixth Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2021), 2021
  • Ranked 3rd in Dialog System, CCF Big Data & Computing Intelligence Contest (CCF BDCI), China, 2021
  • Ranked 1st and 2nd for Chinese-English Newswires Translation, The 13th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2017), Dalian, China, 2017
  • Ranked 2nd for Chinese-English/English-Chinese Newswires Translation, The 11th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2015), Anhui, China, 2015
  • Ranked 1st for English-German/Czech-English/French-English Medical Translation, The 9th Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2014), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014
  • Ranked 2nd for German-English/English-Czech/English-French Medical Translation, The 9th Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2014), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014
  • Ranked 3rd for Grammatical Error Correction, The 7th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013
  • Ranked 2nd for Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on English to French, German, Spanish, Czech and Russian Translation Systems, The 8th Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013
  • Ranked 2nd for Traditional Chinese Parsing, The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2012), Tianjin, China, 2012
  • Ranked 2nd for Chinese Personal Name Disambiguation, The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2012), Tianjin, China, 2012
  • WeSpeak: Web Based Simultaneous Interpretation System, 2024
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of
  • Xuebo Liu, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, 2023
  • iSpeak: A Text-to-Speech System for Cantonese, 2023
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • Yu Sheng: AI Poem Writing, 2022
    • Champion, IEEE Project Codmpetition, Macao, China
    • Third Prize, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Undergraduate Contest, Macau, China
    • First Prize, The 17th Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition, China
    • Third Prize, “Sharing Cup” Innovation Competition of Science and Technology Resources Sharing Service, China
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • UMor-PG: The Intelligent Chatbot for Postgraduate Admission Information! 2022
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • Xuebo Liu, Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates, Macau Science and Technology Award, 2022
  • Candarin: Can You Read Cantonese? Candarin Can Help! 2021
    • Third Prize, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Undergraduate Contest, Macau, China
    • Third Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
    • FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • Baosong Yang, Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates, Macau Science and Technology Award, 2020
  • UMor: A UM Chatbot, 2020
    • First Prize, The UM Mobile APP Development Competition
    • Second Prize, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Undergraduate Contest, Macau, China
    • Third Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
    • Third Prize, Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition
    • FST Dean List, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • iLearner: An Intelligent e-Learning Platform for Teaching & Learning, 2019
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • Automatic Generation of Test Questions for Language Learning, 2018
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • UM-iMethod2: Chinese-Portuguese Translation Oriented Interactive Input Method (IME) System, 2017
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • iCommuter: Railway Scheduling and Control System with Enhanced Route Management, 2016
    • FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • iFinger – Study of Gesture Recognition Technologies & Its Applications, 2014
    • First Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
    • FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • iInteract – Study of Eye Tracking Technologies and Its Applications, 2012
    • First Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition, Chongqing, China (340 projects from 200 universities)
    • Creativity Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition, Chongqing, China (340 projects from 200 universities)
    • Merit of Tertiary Award, Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards (APICTA), Brunei Darussalam (156 nominations from 16 countries)
    • Merit Award, Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA), Macao, China
    • First Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • CanSpeak – Cantonese Text to Speech System, 2012
    • Second Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
    • FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • Cyclops II: Snapshot Mobile Translation System Based on Thin Client-Server Architecture, 2012
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • KERST – Cantonese-to-English Real-Time Speech Translation System, 2011
    • FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
  • iTagIt! Automatic Image Annotation System, 2010
    • First Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
  • Compact OCR Based on Peripheral Direction Contributivity and Its Application in Pocket Based Snapshot (Chinese) Translation (Cyclops), 2009
    • Second Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl Delta River Region Universities IT Project Competition, Chongqing, China (out of 46 teams)
    • First Prize, The 11th Challenge Cup – National Contest of College Students’ Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements, China
    • Third Prize, Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA), Macao, China
  • English to Chinese Machine Translation based on Constraint Synchronous Grammar (CSG), 2006
    • Second Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl Delta River Region Universities IT Project Competition, Guangzhou Computer Society, China (out of 44 teams)
    • Merit of Tertiary Student Project Category, Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards (APICTA), Macau
    • Third Prize, Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA), Macao, China
      Practicability Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
  • Pak Pak Serves You – Application on Interactive Dialogue and Answering (IDQA) System, 2005
    • Third Prize, The 11th Challenge Cup – National Contest of College Students’ Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements, China
    • Second Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China