======= Awards and Honors =======

==== 2024 ACM Distinguished Member ====

Rong Chen was named 2024 ACM Distinguished Member in acknowledgment of his contributions to improving the performance and scalability of distributed systems.

The ACM Distinguished Member program, initiated in 2006, recognizes those members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. ACM Distinguished Membership recognizes up to 10% of ACM's top members. The new Distinguished Members join a list of eminent colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.


[[https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/february/distinguished-members-2024|News]] [[https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/chen_4501527|Award Recipient]]

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==== 2024 Best Paper Award at 19th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'24) ====


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With F. Lu, X. Wei, Z. Huang, M. Wu, and H. Chen

[[https://2024.eurosys.org/awards.html|Conference Awards Page]] [[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3627703.3629568|ACM DL]]

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==== 2022 Honorable Mention of Gilles Muller Best Artifact Award at 17th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'22) ====

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With J. Yang (//advised MSc student//), D. Tang, X. Song (//advised Ph.D. student//), L. Wang, Q. Yin, W. Yu, and J. Zhou

[[https://sysartifacts.github.io/eurosys2022/awards|Systems Research Artifacts]]
[[https://2022.eurosys.org/programme/eurosys-2022-awards/|Conference Awards Page]]
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==== 2021 Honorable Mention of The Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award ====

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X. Wei (co-advised with B. Zang and H. Chen)

[[https://www.sigops.org/awards/dmr/|The Dennis M. Ritchie Award]] [[https://www.sigops.org/2021/dmr-award-2021/|SIGOPS Post]]
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==== 2020 Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award ====

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With Z. Wang, B. Zang, X. Wei (//advised Ph.D. student//), and M. Dong

Achievements: //Efficient Data Processing System based on New Heterogeneous Hardware//

[[https://e.huawei.com/topic/olympus-mons-awards-2020/en/index.html|2020 OlympusMons Award Unveiled]]

//"Reward the achievements with outstanding performance in terms of innovation and advancement."//

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==== 2017 Best Paper Award at 8th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys'17) ====

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With X. Zhou, Z. Wang, H., and J. Li

[[https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~apsys2017/|Conference Home Page]]

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==== 2015 Best Paper Award at 10th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'15) ====

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With J. Shi (//advised MSc student//), Y. Chen (//advised MSc student//), and H. Chen

[[https://eurosys2015.labri.fr/program/awards/|Conference Awards Page]]

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==== 2007 Chuan-Lin Wu Best Paper Award at 36th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'07) ====

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With H. Chen, F. Zhang, B. Zang, and P. Yew

[[https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICPP.2007.56|Message from the Program Co-Chairs]]