Xiaojun is one among the 25 students selected for the fellowship from a pool of 98 distinguished Ph.D. candidates nominated from more than 50 leading research universities/institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. In the twelve years since the MSRA Fellowship Program started, more than two hundred and eighty Ph.D. candidates from fifty universities/institutions have been awarded the Fellowship. The program has been highly successful in fostering advances and collaboration in computer science and research.