NOTABLE AWARDS
2025 Editor's Choice Award, Cognitive Development Society, Awarded paper: Artis, Luyster, Carroll, He, & Arunachalam (2025)
2024 Faculty/School Performance Award in Early Career Research, Faculty of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
2017 Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award, Society of Language Development, Awarded paper: He & Lidz (2017)
EXTERNAL GRANTS
2024-2026 Hong Kong University Grants Committee (UGC), General Research Fund (GRF)
The role of sleep in learning words and rules in early childhood
As Principal Investigator; HKD683,584; Project No. 12608923
2021-2023 Hong Kong University Grants Committee (UGC), Special Grant for Strategic Development of Virtual Teaching and Learning
Virtual Board: Hybrid Delivery and Display for Enhanced Teaching and Learning
As Principal Investigator; HKD150,000
INTERNAL GRANTS
2023-2024 Hong Kong Baptist University, Tier 2 Start-up Grant, competitively awarded
Input tailoring in parent-child real-time interaction
As Principal Investigator; HKD250,000
2021-2023 Hong Kong Baptist University, Arts Faculty Research Impact Fund
Promoting public recognition of the role of sleep in children’s language development
As Principal Investigator; HKD50,000
2020-Pres. Hong Kong Baptist University, Start-up Grant for New Academics
Non-project specific, awarded upon employment
As Principal Investigator; HKD100,000
2020-2022 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Knowledge Transfer Project Fund
Sleep to remember––Promoting early language development by making best use of sleep
As Principal Investigator, reassigned to a new PI following a career move; HKD400,000
2016-2017 Boston University, Dudley Allen Sargent Research Fund Faculty/Postdoc Competition
Comprehension of 1st & 2nd person pronouns in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
As Principal Investigator; US$5,000