| Aug 2011 | Champions in both Tracks in KDD Cup 2011 |
| July 2011 | Best Paper Award in International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis (ASONAM 2011) |
| June 2011 | Received US Airforce AOARD Research Grant Award |
| June 2010 | Merit Paper Award in 2010 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence |
| Nov 2010 | Supervised Ph.D. student to win Microsoft Fellowship |
| Aug 2010 | KDD CUP 2010 Champion |
| Aug 2009 | Supervised MS thesis to win 2009 中華民國資訊學會碩士論文獎佳作 |
| Aug 2009 | Supervised MS Thesis to win 2009 中華民國計算語言學會碩士論文獎佳作 |
| June 2009 | 3rd place in the Slow Track of KDDCUP 2009 (out of >400 submissions) |
| April 2009 | Tutorial on "Heterogeneous Social Network Mining" presented in PAKDD09 |
| July, 2008 | Winner in KDDCUP 2008 (out of more than 200 submissions) |
| Dec, 2007 | Google Research Award 2007 |
| Aug, 2006 | Ph.D. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Southern California |
| June, 2006 | The paper "Discovering the linear writing order of a two-dimensional ancient hieroglyphic script" was reported as one of the top 25 hottest articles in Artificial Intelligence in ScienceDirect |
| June, 2006 | Interviewed with "The Economist" on decipherment and machine translation, in "How to build a Babel Fish", June 10th, 2006 |
| Nov, 2004 | Masterpiece writing prize for the article "Paradox" in the Popular Science Writing Competition, National Science Council, Taiwan |
| July, 2004 | Chosen to present the thesis proposal "Generating Inspirations in Semantic Networks for Human and Machine Discovery", in AAAI 04 Doctoral Consortium with $1000 Scholarship |
| Oct, 2003 | Best Paper Award in 2003 IEEE/WI International Conference on Web Intelligence for the paper: Shou-de Lin and Craig Knoblock, "Exploiting a Search Engine to Develop More Flexible Web Agents" |
| Aug, 2003 | Second place in the open task of ACM KDDCup 2003 for the paper: Shou-de Lin and Hans Chalupsky "Using Unsupervised Link Discovery Methods to Find Interesting Facts and Connections in a Bibliography Dataset" |
| May, 2000 | Summer Research Award, EECS department, UM, Ann Arbor |
| 1995 | President Award of EE department, National Taiwan University |
| 1992-1996 | Scholarship of National Taiwan Power Company |