Awards & Recognitions

ISR Best Associate Editor Award 2011, INFORMS Information Systems Society

First class, Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences

Second Class, State Natural Science Award

2011 International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition

“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

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

Selected to join the National Science and Technology Programmes Expert Database

Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award, Microsoft Research (both in 2010amp;2011)

Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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.