Funding and Awards

Funding

co-I - General Research Fund (GRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2023-2025, HK$644,872.
PI - General Research Fund (GRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2022-2024, HK$555,933.
PI - Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2021-2023, HK$3,952,247.
PI - General Research Fund (GRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2021-2022, HK$651,380.
PI - General Research Fund (GRF/ECS), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018-2020, HK$483,340.
Teaching Start-Up Grant, City University of Hong Kong, 2017-2018, HK$41,862.
Start-Up Grant, City University of Hong Kong, 2016-2018, HK$300,000.
Research Catalyst Funds, O’Brien Institute for Public Health, Alberta, Canada, 2016-2017.
Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Calgary, 2014.
Graduate Student Transportation Grant, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013.
Graduate Student Fellowship, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), 2012.

Best Student Poster Award (Finalist), Primary Care Ecosystem: Integrated Care for Successful Ageing, March 2024.
College Research Excellence Awards, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, December 2023.
Outstanding Teaching Performance (top 5% of teachers), City University of Hong Kong, September 2023.
Second-Place, Best Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK International Conference, 2022.
Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2021.
Winner, Best Service Science Student Paper Award, INFORMS Conference on Service Science, 2020.
Outstanding Reviewer, European Journal of Operational Research, April 2017.
Excellence in Teaching Award, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2013.
Nominated and selected for the INFORMS Future Academician Colloquium, 2012.
George E. Nicholson Award, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.
Chery 21^st Century Eastar Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2007.
First prize in Physics Olympiad, China, 2003.