We are proud to announce that Prof. Jiannong Cao, COMP’s Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing, who led the project “Theoretical Models and Techniques of Distributed Computing in Wireless Network” with Dr Dan Wang, COMP’s Associate Professor, received the Second-class Award in Natural Science in the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) 2018 from the Ministry of Education to honour their contributions and discoveries made in natural science.