Tongliang Liu


Awards & honours


  • 2025, Laureate of the Young Distinguished Scientist Award - The International Association of Engineers (IAENG)

  • 2024, CORE Award for Outstanding Research Contribution - CORE

  • 2024, Top 10: Future AI Leaders - AI Magazine

  • 2023, Eureka Prize for Emerging Leaders in Science shortlist - Australian Museum

  • 2022, AI's 10 to watch for 2022 - IEEE

  • 2022, Future Fellowship - Australian Research Council (ARC)

  • 2022, Faculty Award - OPPO

  • 2022, Best Paper Honorable Mention Award- IEEE MMSP

  • 2022, Best Paper Award - ACM Mobiarch

  • 2022, Meituan Faculty Research Award for Collaboration Exploration

  • 2022, Best Rising Stars of Science in Australia - Research.com 2022

  • 2022, Global Top Young Chinese Scholars in AI – Baidu Scholar 2022

  • 2021, Early Career Research Excellence – Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney

  • 2021, Best VisNotes Paper Award – IEEE PacificVis

  • 2021, Bioengineering and Digital Science Catalyst Award – Cardiovascular Initiative

  • 2020, Named in the Early Achievers Leadboard (five across Australia in Engineering & Computer Sciences) - The Australian

  • 2020, Early Career Researcher Award Honourable Mention – Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS)

  • 2019, Best Paper Award - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)

  • 2019, J G Russell Award Shortlisted - Australian Academy of Science (AAS)

  • 2018, Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellowship - Australian Research Council (ARC)

  • 2017, Distinguished Paper Candidate - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

  • 2014, Best Paper Award - IEEE International Conference on Information Science & Tech (ICIST)

Awards & honours for supervised students


  • 2023, Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Engineering, Muyang Li

  • 2023, Outstanding Reviewer of NeurIPS, Yu Yao

  • 2023, Outstanding Reviewer of ICLR, Yu Yao

  • 2023, NeurIPS 2023 Scholar Award, Runqi Lin

  • 2023, The Google Award for Best Research Poster Presentation on Machine Learning / AI, Muyang Li

  • 2023, NeurIPS 2023 travel award, Zhuo Huang

  • 2023, NeurIPS 2023 travel award, Muyang Li

  • 2023, The University Medal, Jiacheng Zhang

  • 2023, The University Medal, Junzhi Ning

  • 2023, The University Medal, Yang Zhou

  • 2023, Top Final Year High Honour Roll, Muyang Li

  • 2022, Google PhD Fellowship Awards, Xiaobo Xia and Shuo Yang

  • 2022, ICML Outstanding Reviewer Award, Xiaobo Xia

  • 2022, The University Medal, James Wood

  • 2021, NeurIPS Outstanding Reviewer Award, Xiaobo Xia

  • 2019, School of Computer Science Research Students Excellence Prize, Yu Yao