The staff received an annual joint research grant by China Computer Federation (http://www.ccf.org.cn/) and Tencent Inc. (www.tencent.com/)for the project "Traffic Scheduling Based on One-way End-to-end Network Measurement" in 2013. The grant is open to all young researchers around the world (http://ur.tencent.com/subs/home4). This research grant is highly competitive and the staff received it in 2013 and the corresponding acceptance rate is 11% (19 proposals among 172 submissions from more than 80 universities around the world were funded). http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-89075-711656.html
After the completion of the project in 2014 with 5 papers, 3 prototypes, and 2 patent applications, the staff needed to conducted an oral defense for the project. The award is based on the research output and oral project defense and finally from the 5 out of 19 teams including us received the award of excellence (优秀奖). http://www.ithome.com/html/it/110996.htm