Academia

2026

the 4th CFA Society Greece Research Award (€2,000), February 2026

ESG30 Young Scholars Program (2025-2026), January 2026

UCD College of Business Research Funding Scheme (€12,000 in total for two projects), January 2026

2025

UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme (€437.50), October 2025

Outstanding Paper Award at the 2025 International Academic Conference on Digital Finance for the co-authored work "Kindred Spirits: Bank ESG Reputation Risk, Loan Syndication Structure, and Renegotiation", July 2025

Co-investigator of Wales Innovation Network Small Grant Funding Project: Does digital transformation safeguard vulnerable people? Evidence from Welsh households, 1 March 2025 - 30 September 2025


PhD (2021-2024)

University of Bath Doctoral Recognition Award - Student Award, May 2024

Scholarships for the best papers of the PhD Mentoring Day on the 31st Finance Forum | the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association, Apr 2024

Research Excellence Award  ($1,000) from the 19th Chinese Finance Annual Meeting (CFAM) for  the co-authored work (chapter 1 of my PhD thesis) "When Bayes-Stein Meets Machine Learning: A Generalized Approach for Portfolio Optimization", Oct 2022

Fully Funded Scholarship from University Research Studentship Award of University of Bath, Apr 2021

Fully Funded Scholarship for MRes+PhD programme in SEF at Queen Mary University of London, Apr 2021(give up)


MRes and Bachelor (2011-2018)

Outstanding Graduates of Shanghai (top 1% in Shanghai), Mar 2018

First Prize of National Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling & Huawei Special Award (top 1.44% in China, $1,000), Nov 2017

Second Prize in Business Plan Competition of the China Graduate Electronics Design Contest ($700), Jun 2016

Postgraduate Recommendation to University of Science and Technology of China (give up), Aug 2014

Outstanding Undergraduates of Donghua University (top 5% of undergraduates), Jun 2015

First-Class Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarships of Donghua University × 6 (top 3%, $9,000 in total), 2011-2018