• The Terminal Year Fellowship from Northwestern University ($8,552). [.pdf]

• The Best Student Paper Award out of 136 candidates from 2010 SPIE Photonics Devices + Applications ($1,000). [.pdf] [.jpg]

• My plasmonic enhanced QWIP paper has been reported by Laser Focus World. [link]

• Chinese Goverment Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad (less than 500 people globally every year). ($5,000) [link]

• SPIE Newport Spectra-Physics Research Excellence Travel Grant, 2009. [news link]

• Award from the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University (ISEN) as Principle Investigator (P.I.) for the project "Using Plasmonic Photonic Crystals as Thermal Emitters to Produce Highly-efficient Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells". ($6,000) [link]

• The conference travel grant from graduate school of Northwestern University to present at SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA.

• The conference travel grant from EECS department of Northwestern University to present at ChinaNano 2009 conference in Beijing, China.

• The Grand Prize from TEGAM Inc. research challenge 2009. ($1,000, the only one) [link]

• My paper published JVSTB was ranked in the "Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles" in Sep. 2008. [link]

• My paper published on Nanoscale Research Letters was selected among the Best New Papers in NRL by Springer. [link]

• The microspheres based nanolithography technique developed by me has been reported by OptoIQ. [news link]

• One of the five students in 2008 receiving the Ryan Fellowship from Northwestern University for being the finest in Nanotechnology. ($22,500 for three years) [link]

• The SPIE scholarship in 2008 for the potential for long-contribution for optics and photonics. ($1,000) [news link]

• My presentation was published a online peer-reviewed video journal (OAtube Nanotechnology), and acessed for more than 1,500 times. [link]

• My nanolithography results appeared on the cover of Villa and Virtual Conferences on Interaction Among Nanostructures(VC-IAN) program 2008. [link]

• The conference travel grant from Northwestern University to present at 2008 NSTI Nanotech conference.

• My paper in Nanotechnology has been downloaded for more than 250 times in two months, rated as one of the most popular articles.[link]

• Nanotechweb.org by Institute of Physics (IOP) has published a news articles on my nanolithography technique. [link]

• My paper in Nanotechnology has been selected as the cover paper in the issue 48, Nov. 2007. [link]

• Walter P. Murphy Fellowship from Northwestern Univ (covering the first year's tuition and stipend), 2006

• Triple-A student, Peking University, 2005

• President's Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Peking University, 2004

• Third prize in National Olymipiad Mathmatics Competition, 2001