Failure

Apart from the triumphs and accomplishments, there are many more failures, participation medals and rejections. Below is a list of my notable academic failures along the way to where I am now.

This idea is originated from an article from Nature by Melanie Stefan.


Failed-to-obtained Awards and Scholarships

2024 RedBird PhD Award, HKUST
2022 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme
2021 Outstanding Graduate of Sichuan Province, Ministry of Education of China
2020 China National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China
2020 Successful Participant, the Mathematical Contest in Modeling
2019 Successful Participant, the 26th Mathematical Modeling Contest of UESTC
2018 Failed, 'Sailing Cup' Electronic Design Competition, UESTC
2018 Failed, the 16th ACM-ICPC Contest of UESTC
2018 Successful Participant, 'Freshman Cup' Mathematical Modeling Contest of UESTC

Rejected papers

2024 Proceedings of the IEEE (PIEEE) x1
2024 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI) x1
2024 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) x1
2023 Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) x1
2023 IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (IEEE RBME) x1
2023 The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024) x1
2023 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI) x2
2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) x1
2021 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) x1
2020 The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020) x1
2020 Information Fusion x1

Failed-to-be-admitted Degree programs

2021 PhD in CSE, Peking University
2021 PhD in CSE, Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021 PhD in CSE, Fudan University