Last week one of our papers won the Best Paper award at a conference held at the Education University - The 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2025).
Of course we are happy to win the award. As researchers it is quite an honour to be recognised in this way at an academic conference. But there are more reasons that this is so satisfying. There are 5 people who wrote that paper. Three of us have been colleagues and friends at Department of Computing at PolyU for a long time. The two others were our PhD students, who are now professors themselves at Education University in Hong Kong, and Shenzhen University in Mainland China. Two generations across three different universities working together. They are also collaborating with some of our other students, and younger colleagues.
The three of us had been collaborating collegially for a long time. We argue about ideas, a lot. But we never argue who does more and who does less. We do not fight to be first author on a publication (paper). Somehow it always works out and we never have to argue about who contributed more. Just a few days ago a famous Chinese Nobel winner of Physics passed away. He (in)famously fell out with his co-winner after they got the Nobel. Of course, our achievements are not at the same level as theirs. But we remain friends over decades.
Now our students are working together in the same spirit. This is the most gratifying part of the whole business.
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