Awards & Recognitions

Second Class, State Natural Science Award

Allan N Nash Award for Distinguished Doctoral Graduate from the University of Maryland

2011 Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings and Conferences, IEEE Communications Society

“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

Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

“The Early Modern Economy at the Two Ends of Eurasia: A Comparative Study of the GDP of the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century” Project Awarded $302,000 by the Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund

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.

Selected to join the National Science and Technology Programmes Expert Database