Funding & Award

  • PI, Industrial Sponsorship on "Advanced Machine Learning in FinTech applications", $200,000, 2018.

  • Winner, Research Fellowship Competition, Schulich School of Business, 2018

  • PI, Discovery Grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, $100,000, 2017-2022

    • "Data-centric Decision Supports for Large-Scale Social Network Management".

  • Winner, INFORMS ISS Design Science Research Award, 2016.

    • "Social Network Analytics: Adoption, Persuasion, Recommendation, and Knowledge Refreshing".

  • Winner, Junior Faculty Research Competition, Schulich School of Business, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

  • PI, Dean's Research Fund, $90,000, Schulich School of Business, 2014-2017

  • Fellow (one per school), Doctoral Consortium at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Orlando, FL, 2012

  • Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2007

  • Recipient, "Guanghua" Scholarship for excellence in postgraduate study, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2006

    • Invited acceptance speech.