Awards

Honors and recognition received by Pan He and students in our research group. Research grants and computing support are listed on the Research page.

Faculty Awards and Honors

2026 — Gold Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
2025 — ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (one of 36 recipients nationwide)
2022 — Doctoral Consortium Award, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Mentor: Fernando De la Torre.
2020–2022 — Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship, University of Florida
2021 — Doctoral Consortium Award, IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Mentor: James Hays.
2021 — International Center Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Florida
2016 — Chinese Academy of Sciences Dean’s Award for Innovation and Creativity, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
2015 — First Prize, Bachelor’s Thesis Award, Sichuan University (two recipients in Software Engineering)
2015 — Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Sichuan University
2014 — First Prize Scholarship, Sichuan University (top 1%)
2014 — Second Prize, China International Software Design and Application Contest
2014 — Outstanding Team, Chinasoft Internship Project
2013 — Third Prize, Southwestern Invitational Programming Contest
2013 — Provincial Third Prize, Lan Qiao Cup, Software Entrepreneurship Team
2012–2013 — National Encouragement Scholarship, Sichuan University

2026 — Darryl Cherian Jacob: Financial Assistance Award, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
2026 — Darryl Cherian Jacob: CRA Scholarship Invitee, CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop
2026 — Xinyu Liu: CRA Department Support Invitee, CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop
2025 — Owen Strength: Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Auburn University
2024 — Owen Strength: Honorable Mention, Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award News report
2024 — Isaiah Gallardo: Woltosz Graduate Student Fellowship, Auburn University
2024 — Isaiah Gallardo: Undergraduate Consortium acceptance with travel funding, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI paper

2021 — Departmental nomination for the Informatics Institute Fellowship, University of Florida
2020 — University nomination for the Google PhD Fellowship, University of Florida