Funding and Awards

Funding

• co-PI - Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2020-2022, HK$3,952,247.
• PI - General Research Fund (GRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2020-2022, HK$651,380.
• PI - General Research Fund (GRF/ECS), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018-2020, HK$483,340.
• PI - Teaching Start-Up Grant, City University of Hong Kong, 2017-2018, HK$41,862.
• PI - 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.

Awards

• Best Service Science Student Paper Award, INFORMS Conference on Service Science, December 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.