On October 23, the "China Awarding Ceremony of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)" was held in Zhengzhou University. At the ceremony, "ACM Chinese Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Prize" was awarded for the first time. Dr.Yang Lei of XJTU got the prize. The other awardee was Dr.Ling Zhen from Southeast University. The chairman of ACM, ACM Fellow Alex Wolf, the awardee of Turing Award and the father of virtual reality professor Ivan Sutherland and the director of the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education Li Zhimin awarded the prizes to the awardees.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) was founded in 1947. It is the largest and most famous scientific and educational computer society. ACM Chinese Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Prize is to reward the academic achievement acquired in the field of computer science and engineering and encourage the concentrated research done by the awardees. Since 2014, the authors of one or two doctoral dissertations that are recognized and have big influence will be awarded. The awarding ceremony will be held at the annual meeting of Chinese board of director of ACM in October.

Yang Lei graduated from the Department of Computer of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering in 2014 and got his doctorate (His supervisor is professor Qi Yong). His doctoral dissertation deeply studied and analyzed three important problems including the signal conflict of labels and readers, false-proof attestation based on radio frequency identification technology and label moving tracing. So far, his research results have been published on the proceedings of many international top conferences or periodicals such as ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE TPDS and IEEE TMC, among which 11 papers were recommended to type A conferences or periodicals by CCF and 3 papers were recommended to type B conferences or periodicals. After he graduated, his two papers on the real-time tracing problem of radio frequency and the distribution model on online sociality network data got "the Best Paper Prize" respectively from ACM MobiCom 2014 and ACM MobiHoc 2014. ACM MobiCom and MobiHoc are thought to be two top international conferences in the field of mobile and wireless communication. The jury of ACM MobiCom awarded the highest prize of the conference to the authors in Asian research institutes and universities for the first time. So far, Dr. Yang Lei is the only researcher who got the two prizes in one year.