- 2004 Excellence Award (Third-Class Award), Sun Yat-sen University.
- 2005 Excellence Award (Minor Award), Sun Yat-sen University.
- 2006 Excellence Award (Major Award), Sun Yat-sen University.
- 2006 Japan Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University
- 2007 Graduation with Distinction, Sun Yat-sen University
- 2007 Chen Ning Yang Graduate Fellowship, Tsinghua University
- 2010 The Best Poster Award in Annual Meeting of Chinese Physical Society (Nankai University).
- 2010 Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (Minor Award), Tsinghua University.
- 2011 Tsinghua Scholarship for Overseas Graduate Studies.
- 2011 Tsinghua Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (Major Award).
- 2012 Graduation with Distinction of Beijing Municipality
- 2012 Tsinghua Outstanding PhD Dissertation (Major Award)
- 2012 Three-year research grants at Perimeter Institute from the Government of Canada through Industry Canada and from the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation.
- 2014 PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Canada [declined].
- 2015-2018 Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Postdoctoral Fellowship, UIUC; Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellowship
