- Bronze Leaf Certificate (20-30%) in PrimeAsia 2022, "A 14-Bit Pulse-Width Modulation DAC for Consumer Electronics and IoT) is also published in the conference."(Xinchao Zhong, Chiu-wing Sham, Haiquan Li and Yan Li) [certificate]
- 1st place in the Adaptable Compute Acceleration Category in the Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge 2020, "Acceleration of Binary Neural Networks using Xilinx FPGA" (Raul Valencia and Chiu-Wing Sham) [Winning Project] [Contest information]
- Project "Neuroevolved Binary networks accelerated by FPGA" have been selected as the regional finialist for the 2019 Innovate FPGA Design contest [certificate]
- Project "An Iris Recognition System Enhanced by Forward Error Correction Code" have been selected as the regional finialist for the 2019 Innovate FPGA Design contest [certificate][certificate][certificate]
- 3rd place in the Design Competition of the International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART), 2016, Hong Kong (Chun-Yan Lo, Qing Lu and Chiu-Wing Sham) [certificate]
- 3rd place in the Design Competition of the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), 2015 (Qing Lu, Chiu-Wing Sham and Francis C. M. Lau, "An Architecture-Algorithm Co-Design of Artificial Intelligence for Trax Player", Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), pp. 268-271, December 2015, Queenstown, New Zealand.) [certificate]
- Best Paper Award (2 out of 125 regular papers) in The International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2015 (Qing Lu, Zhuoer Shen, Chiu-Wing Sham and Francis C. M. Lau, "A Parallel-Routing Network for Reliability Inferences of Single-Parity-Check Decoder", Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), pp. 127-132, October 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) [certificate]
- Best Engineering Award in Robocon Hong Kong Contest, 2015, Hong Kong (Team instructor) (detailed contest information)
- Best Artistic Design Award in Robocon Hong Kong Contest, 2015, Hong Kong (Team instructor) (detailed contest information)
- Best Paper Award (3 out of 114 regular papers) in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2013 (Jingwei Lu and Chiu-Wing Sham, "Low-Memory Global Routing with Dynamic Topology Update and Optimum Bending-Aware Shortest Path Search", In Proceedings of IEEE The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, pp. 231-238, March 2013, Santa Clara, USA.) [certificate]
- Top 25 papers published in Integration, the VLSI Journal in 2012 Integration, The VLSI Journal, 2012 (Jingwei Lu, Wing-Kai Chow and Chiu-Wing Sham, "A New Clock Network Synthesizer for Modern VLSI Designs", Integration, The VLSI Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 121-131, March, 2012, Netherlands.) [certificate]
- Best Paper Award Nomination (13 out of 115 regular papers) in Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2010 (Jingwei Lu, Wing-Kai Chow, Chiu-Wing Sham and Fung-Yu Young, "A Dual-MST Approach for Clock Network Synthesis", In Proceedings of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 467-473, January, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.)
- 4th place in the ISPD 2009 Clock Network Synthesis Contest (Team instructor)(detailed contest information), 2009, San Diego, USA
- Merit Award in the 5th ACM (HK) Postgraduate Research Day 2004 (PhD Group), 2004, Hong Kong
- Best Teaching Assistant Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2004-05)
- Excellent Teaching Assistantship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001-02, 2004-05)
- Hong Kong Computer Society Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000-01)
- Vanson Trading Co. Ltd. Chan Kang Fout Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1999-00)
- Champion, Men's Master 1 (1 km), MTR Hong Kong Race Walking 2016, Hong Kong
- 3rd Place, Men's Open (5 km), GOMA Cup Race Walking 2016, Hong Kong
- Champion, Men's Master 1 (1 km), MTR Hong Kong Race Walking 2015, Hong Kong
- Champion, Men's Elite (2 km), GOMA Cup Race Walking 2015, Hong Kong