Selected Awards, Honors and Grants

Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) "Next generation WiFi networks for decarbonised critical minerals operations", CI, 2025-2028

Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Innovate project "Long Range WiFi systems for Underground Mines and other Large Industry Settings", CI, 2025-2028

ARC Discovery Project "Communication-Cyber-Human System Co-design for Human-Machine Collaboration", $652,579, second Chief Investigator (CI), 2025-2027

Exemplary Editor Award of IEEE Communications Letters for 2024.

ARC Linkage Project "Efficient Intelligent Omni-Surfaces for Enhancing Mine Wireless Coverage", $787,764, second Chief Investigator (CI), 2025-2027

Connectivity Innovation Network’s (CIN) Sensing for Disasters project Advanced AI-Enhanced Geospatial Sensing for Disaster Management, one of only three funded projects, $40,000, Lead CI, 2024.

Direct funding from industrial partner Azure Mining Technology Pty Ltd on "Intelligent Low Power Wide Area Wireless Sensor Network (LPWA-WSN) for Underground Mining", $509,000, Lead CI, 2024.

The University of Sydney Provost's Capital Equipment and Contingency Fund (CAPEX), $369,168.00, Second CI, 2024.

Winner of 2024 Supervisor of the Year, the University of Sydney, one of only 20 awardees and among the few Early Career Researchers recognized in a list predominantly composed of senior academics across various faculties.

N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications, 2023, one of the ten global rising stars.

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), 2023-2025, $457,037, Sole Investigator.

Faculty of Engineering Dean's Award for Outstanding Research by an Early Career Researcher, the University of Sydney, Sole awardee, 2022.

Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grant, 2021-2023, Australia Government, $3,000,000, key CI

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2023

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Communications Letters, 2023

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2022

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2021

EECS Rising Star, UC Berkeley, 2020, uniquely representing Australia among emerging global academic talents

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Communications Letters, 2020

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020

Faculty of Engineering Early Career Researcher Development Scheme 2020, the University of Sydney, $20,000, Sole CI

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2020

Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, 2017

ANU CECS Top-Up Scholarship for Research Excellence, Dec. 2016

ANU Vice Chancellor’s HDR Travel Grants, Dec. 2015, Feb. - May 2016

ANU Scholarship, July 2014 - July 2017

Outstanding Graduate of Beihang University, 2010

1st Prize of National Undergraduate Innovative Experiment Program, China, 2009

1st Prize of Higher Mathematics Competition, Beihang University, 2009

1st Prize of Electronic Design Competition, Beihang University, 2009

2nd Prize of the 19th "Feng Ru Cup" Competition, Beihang University, 2009

3rd Prize of Beijing College-Student Electronic Design Competition, Beijing, 2009

1st Prize of National Higher Mathematics Competition, China, 2008

2nd Prize of National Undergraduate Physics Competition, China, 2007

1st Prize Entrance Scholarship in Beihang University, 2006