Grants, Honors & Awards
Graduate Research Assistantship (merit-based teaching release), Department of Linguistics, UConn, Spring 2026
Paula Menyuk Award ($400) (awarded to student first authors of top-rated abstracts), The 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50), 2025
Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($3000), Department of Linguistics, UConn, 2025
Paula Menyuk Award ($385) (awarded to student first authors of top-rated abstracts), The 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49), 2024
IASCL Travel Award ($2185), International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), 2024
Alumni Research Award ($1000), Department of Linguistics, UConn, 2024
Conference Participation Award ($750), The Graduate School, UConn, 2024
Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($750), Department of Linguistics, UConn, 2024
Travel Funding ($3000), Department of Linguistics, UConn, 2022
Graduate Assistant Fellowship ($4000/year), Department of Linguistics, UConn, 2022 - present
Dean’s Honors List (2019 -2020), Faculty of Arts, CUHK, 2020
Outstanding Thesis Award, ECNU, 2019
Best Work Prize, the 11th Daxia-Wenxin Undergraduate Research Forum, ECNU, 2019
Second Work Prize, the Annual Research Forum 2018 of Meng Xian-cheng College, ECNU, 2018
Best Presentation Award, the 5th National Summer School for Outstanding Undergraduates, JSNU, 2018
Excellent Student Scholarship, ECNU, 2016-2018
Academic Appointments
Graduate Assistant, Fall 2022 - present
Department of Linguistics, UConn
Research Assistant, 2021 - Spring 2022
PI: Haihua Pan, Laboratory of Theoretical Psycholinguistics (LTP), CUHK
Research Assistant, Fall 2020
PI: Margaret Ka-Yan Lei, Language Acquisition Laboratory (LAL), CUHK
Research Practicum, Fall 2019
PI: Victor Junnan Pan, Laboratory of Theoretical Psycholinguistics (LTP), CUHK
Service & Outreach
Treasurer of Linguistics Club, 2025 - 2026, UConn
Secretary of Linguistics Club, 2023 - 2025, UConn
Organizer of Workshop on Experimental Methods and Techniques in Linguistics, Oct. 9th, 2025, UConn
Organizer of The 14th UConn Linguistics Graduate Roundtable, Dec. 7th, 2024, UConn (Coorganizer: Lydia Palaiologou)
Organizing Committee of The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 54), June 12th–14th, 2023, UConn
Author & Editor of 語言學午餐 Ling-Lunch, Chinese platform for popularizing linguistic science, 2024 - Present
Membership
Acqui-Lab (PAL), UConn
Meaning Group, UConn
Logic Group, UConn
The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS), UConn
Language Acquisition Lab, UMass
Professional Affiliation
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK)
International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS)
Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)