Awards

• The second prize of Wenjun Wu Artificial Intelligence Innovation Award of China for “Fundamental Theories and Applications of Networked Evolutionary Optimization and Learning”. The sole prizewinner, 2014.

• The second prize of National Natural Science Award of China for “Fundamental Theories for Natural Intelligence based Learning and Optimization”. Ranked as the 3rd prizewinner, 2013.

• The first prize of Science and Technology Award in Shaanxi, China for “Theories, Methods, and Applications of Evolutionary Computation”. Ranked as the 3rd prizewinner, 2008.

• My PhD thesis, namely “Coevolutionary Algorithms and Their Applications”, won the Award of Shaanxi Province for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 2007.

• New Century Excellent Talents program of the Ministry of Education of China, 2006.

• Representative of the tenth National Women's Congress, Oct. 2008. (This is a nation-wide congress for selected outstanding women in various sectors, and is held every five years. I was the only delegate from the entire higher education sector from the Shaanxi Province in 2008. I was also the first staff of Xidian University to attend this congress within 50 years.)

• Top ten academic graduates of Xidian University in 2004

• Scholarship of excellent graduate of Xidian University in each year from 1996 to 2004

• The first prize of the 2nd Challenge Cup of Shaanxi, China (1999)

• The excellent prize of the 6th Challenge Cup of China (1999).