Awards and Prizes
2025 The Winner of Top Poster at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2024 The Winner of Outstanding Practical Implications for Management Paper Award at
Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Organizational Behavior division)
2020 The Winner of the Faculty Transnational Research Award from Academy of Management
Annual Meeting (the Division of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations)
2020 The Finalist of the Alvah Chapman Outstanding Dissertation Award
2018-2019 Doctoral Competition Award from the Rotman School of Management
2017 The Finalist for the EURAM Most Inspirational Paper Award (one of the four finalists)
2016 The Winner of Samsung Economic Research Institute Best Paper Award
Grants and Scholarships
2025 Research Grant for Key Project from International Association for Cultural and Creative
Industry Research (Third Round Grant), University of Southern California & Shanghai Jiao Tong University (USD 15,000)
2024-2026 Principal Investigator for RADMA Doctoral Studies Award (£46,667)
- Supporting Mr. Pengzhao Lyu for his PhD study at the University of Cambridge
2024-2026 Co-Investigator of Welcome Awards with Institute of Metabolic Science,
University of Cambridge
- Allocation of £266,693 for the collaborative research on culture creation and change.
- University announcement: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wellcome-awards-cambridge-ps18-million-for-two-discovery-research-platforms
2023 Tony Cowling Foundation Award for research on Artificial Intelligence (£10,000)
2022 Research Grants from Cambridge Judge Business School (£10,000)
2017-2018 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (CAD 15,000)
2016-2017 Research Grant from Lee-Chin Family Institute (CAD 10,000)
2012-2013 National Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Research Scholarship from Korean
Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) for Full Tuition Suports
Research Honors
2025 Best Paper at Academy of Management Annual Proceeding
2025 Top Poster at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2024 Best Paper at Academy of Management Annual Proceeding
2015-2016 GSEF – James Paopst Fellowship, University of Toronto
2016 Best Paper at Academy of Management Annual Proceeding
2013-2019 Director’s Fellowships from the University of Toronto