Adams Kong @ NTU

Awards and Honors

Outstanding area chair, CVPR 2026
Top area chair, NeurIPS 2026
Gold reviewer, ICML 2026
Top reviewer, NeurIPS 2025
Nominated for the MSc in Business Analytics Teacher of the Year Award 2024
2022 SCSE Faculty Award
Nominated for the MSc in Business Analytics Teacher of the Year Award 2022
Best reviewer award, The IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2016.
Best Reviewed Paper selected by International Conference on Biometrics, 2016 (with Qingyong Xu, Soham Ghosh, Xingpeng Xu, Huang Yi)
Team Excellence Symposium Gold Award of SPF Innovation Awards Ceremony 2013 (with CID, Singapore Police Force)
SilverAward in the Home Team Policy/Process Innovation of the Year 2013. (with CID, Singapore Police Force)
Honorable Mention from the Journal of Pattern Recognition, 2012. (Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel)
Best Reviewed Paper, The IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2012. (Hengyi Zhang, Chaoying Tang, Adams Kong and Noah Craft)
Spotlight Paper, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), March issue, 2012. (Adams Kong)
One of most cited articles published in Pattern Recognition since 2007, citation based on SciVerse Scopus, Feb 2012 (Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel).
Silver Medal, Malaysia Technology Expo 2011 (Adams Kong and Naif Alajlan).
Plaque for appreciation for the contributions to the successful prosecution of U.S. v. Michael Pepe, from the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, May 2008.(Mr. Michael Pepe drugged, bound, beat and raped several girls, who at the time of the abuse were between the ages of 9 and 12. Dr. Kong severed as an expert witness in this case.)
Special Gold Medal Award, Palmprint Identification System, National Invention Exhibition of People Republic of China, 2003 (awarded rate 13/100, with David Zhang's team)
Certificate of Merit under the Consumer Design Category, Palmprint Identification System, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, 2003.(with David Zhang's team)
Silver Medal, Palmprint Identification System, The Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF 4-8 December 2002), Pacific Hall, COEX World Trade Center, Seoul, Korea 2002. (with David Zhang's team)
Finalist of the 4^th Young Inventor Awards, Far Eastern Economic Review and Hewlett Packard, 2003. (Adams Kong)
Scholastic Award, Hong Kong Baptist University, 1998 (top student in the department).
Honorable Mention in Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, 1998.

Awards given to Dr. Kong's PhD students and Research Staff

ICASSP 2026 travel award (Li Yang)
HSE Champion Award from Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab, 2022 (Yan Ren)
NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Awad, including registration fees and 7 nights of hotel, 2022 (Wang Fan)
Winner of ICIP Travel Grant for attending the IEEE Conference on Image Processing, 2019)
PREMIA Best Student Paper Award, Journal, Honorable Mention, (Frodo Kin Sun Chan)
IAPR Travel Stipend of 1000 USD for attending the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2016 (Frodo Kin Sun Chan)
Granted a Travel Stipend of £100 for attending the European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference(Frodo Kin Sun Chan)
Travel Grant of US800 for attending IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2015 (Xiaojie Li)
Granted an IAPR Travel Award for attending the International Confernce on Pattern Recognition, 2014 (Frodo Chan)
The best student paper award by IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2013 (Abhik Datta)
Honeywell Best Student Paper Award by The IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), 2012 (Hengyi Zhang, Chaoying Tang)
Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, 2012.(Arfika Nurhudatiana)

Awards given to Dr. Kong's Final Year Project students

Muhammadshariffkenzobin Sahul Hameed, Award of People’s Choice by Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MLDA)’s in Deep Learning Week Hackathon, 2024
Soham Ghosh, 2016 (the best reviewed paper from International Conference on Biometrics, awarded rate, 4/151)
Lin Qijie Shaun, 2016, won the 3rd Prize of NTU-M Hack celerator ($S1000)
Xiaojie Ma's URECA's paper was featured in URECA Yearbook 2015
Robin, the recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore Gold Medal, 2014 (His Interview, now as an anslyst at JPMorgan)