I am a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of Edinburgh (FRSE, Scotland's National Academy of Science), UK, a Fellow of the ACM (FACM), a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE, the Academy of Europe), a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (ForMemCAS). I am a recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2018, the Roger Needham Award in 2008 (UK), the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award of ACM PODS 2015 and 2010, the Best Paper Award for SIGMOD 2017, the Best Paper Award for VLDB 2010, the Best Paper Award for ICDE 2007, the Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award in 2003, the Best Paper of the Year Award for Computer Networks in 2002, and the Career Award in 2001 (USA).