Awards & Recognitions

Young Investigator Award, 5th World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE) World Congress on Bioengineering

“Identity Formation and Social Interdependency Based on the Bazi System: A Historical Anthropology Perspective on Social Construction between Mountains and Basins in the Zhaozhou Area, Western Yunnan Frontier, Southwest China” Project Granted $377,894 by the Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund

Best Presentation Award, Asia Regional Jamboree of the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM)

Winner of the Talent Meets Bertelsmann 2012 program

National Finals of L’Oréal Brandstorm and represented Hong Kong at the International Finals in Paris

Best Book in Population Studies Award, Japanese Population Association

HKUST Presidents Outstanding Service Award

Their article, “Room-temperature Ultraviolet Laser Emission From Self-assembled ZnO Microcrystallite Thin Films” in Applied Physics Letters, 72, 3270 (1998) was recognized as one of the 50 most cited papers for the past 50 years in the journal, which is one of the top publications devoted to applied physics.

Winner of the Innovation Award, Green Residential Development Design Competition, organized by the Business Environment Council

First Class Award, 12th Challenge Cup, China, 2011