Honors & Awards

Honors, Awards, Grants and Fellowships/Scholarships

2025

• SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (Postgraduate Programmes)

• AAA FARS Midyear Meeting Excellence in Reviewing Award

2023

• AAA FARS Midyear Meeting Excellence in Reviewing Award

• SMU School of Accountancy Dean’s List for Teaching Excellence (School level)

• SMU Long Service Award (5-Year)

2022

• SMU School of Accountancy Most Promising Teacher Award (School level)

• SMU School of Accountancy Dean’s List for Teaching Excellence (School level)

• SMU Most Promising Teacher Award Nominee (University level)

2021

• SMU School of Accountancy Most Promising Teacher Award (School level)

• SMU School of Accountancy Dean’s List for Teaching Excellence (School level)

• SMU Most Promising Teacher Award Nominee (University level)

2018 - 2021

• Alumni Contribution Award, Nankai University, China

2019

• Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Category A and SMU Internal Research Grant: 19-C206-SMU-002, Principal Investigator, solo author. Funding period: September 2019 – February 2022 (budget: S$39,850; budget utilization rate: 100%)

2018

• SMU Special Research Grant. Grant period: July 2018 – June 2022 (budget utilization rate: 100%)

• HEC Foundation Best Doctoral Thesis Award (award of the year to only one PhD graduate across all disciplines)

• MIT Asia Conference in Accounting Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Hong Kong, China

• HEC Foundation HEC Paris PhD Scholarship Award

2013 - 2018

• Doctoral Fellowship, HEC Paris, France

2017

• EAA Doctoral Colloquium Fellow

• AAA FARS Midyear Meeting Doctoral Consortium Fellow

• MIT Asia Conference in Accounting Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Hangzhou, China

• LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference Fellow

• French Accounting Association (AFC) grant for Visiting Research Scholars

• HEC Paris Scholarship for Visiting PhD Students

• HEC Foundation Scholarship Award for Excellence

2016

• AAA / Deloitte / J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow (the only awarded candidate nominated by French Accounting Association [AFC])

• HEC Paris Leadership Center Research Grant for the project with Walid Alissa and Vedran Capkun

2009

• French Rhône-Alpes Region Government’s Explo’RA Scholarship, EM Lyon, France

2007

• Excellent Graduation Thesis Award, Nankai University, China

2004 - 2006

• Excellent Student Scholarship, Nankai University, China

2004

• Excellent Student Leadership Award, Nankai University, China