Funding and Awards

Funding

• PI - General Research Fund (GRF), The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2026-2028, HK$908,000.
• 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.

Awards

• Outstanding Teaching Performance (top 5% of teachers), City University of Hong Kong, January 2025.
• 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.