Honors and Awards:

• 2023, Frontiers of Science Award in Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences by the International Congress of Basic Sciences

• 2023, Pangu-Weather AI Model ranked 1st in Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2023, China

• 2023, Elected to Fellow of CCF (China Computer Federation )

• 2022, Pangu-Weather AI Model - part of "the AI weather forecaster" recognized as Science's 10 breakthroughs of 2023.

• 2022, Elected to Fellow of CAAI (Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence)

• 2022, Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia 2022, October 10-14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2021, Wu Wenjun Outstanding Contribution Award for Artificial Intelligence by Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) (three per year)

• 2021, Elected to Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS)

• 2019, Best Paper Award, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo(ICME), July 8-12, 2019, Shanghai, China.

• 2017, UTSA President's Distingusihed Award for Research Achievement (one per year), University ofTexas at San Antonio (UTSA), USA

• 2016, Elected to Fellow of IEEE for "his contribution to multimedia information retrieval"   

• 2016, Elected to Yangtze River Chaired Professor by China Ministry of Education

• 2016 UTSA Innovation Award in the first category

• 2015, Best Paper Award, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), June, 2015

• 2015, Best Student Paper Candidate, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 28-July 2, 2015

• 2014, Recognized as Overseas Expert by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

• 2013, Best Paper Award, the 2013 Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM)

• 2013, Best Paper Award, the 19th International Conference on Multimedia Moldeing (MMM)

• 2012, Best Paper Award, the 4th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS)

• 2012, STAR-R Research Award, University of Texas at San Antonio

• 2011, Top 10% Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)

• 2010, Google Faculty Research Award 

• 2010, ACM Service Award presented to “Dr. Qi Tian in Appreciation for Contributions to ACM as Program Chair, Multimedia 2009, October 19-24, 2009.”

• 2007, Best Paper Candidate in Retrieval Track, with Yijuan Lu and Jingsheng Ma, Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM)

• 2006, Student Contest Paper Award, with Jie Yu, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

• 2006, Top 5 Teachers of Computer Science Department in the Dean’s list, College of Science, UTSA

• 2004, Faculty Research Award, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)