Selected Grants & Awards

Grants

  • FRQNT Ph.D. Fellowship, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies, 2024 (rank 1st place)
  • Borealis AI Fellowship, AI research institute at Royal Bank of Canada, 2023 (1 of 10 recipients in Canada)
  • MSR-Mila Collaboration Grant, Microsoft Research, 2022
  • MITACS Accelerate Fellowship, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) and Bell Canada, 2022
  • MSR-Mila Collaboration Grant, Microsoft Research, 2020

Awards

  • Student Travel Award, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
  • Grad Excellence Award, McGill University, 2020-2023 all years
  • SIGIR Student Travel Grant, Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2022 \& 2023
  • Apple Scholars PhD Fellowship Nominee, McGill University, 2021
  • Excellent Graduation Thesis, Northeastern University, 2019
  • Outstanding Student, Northeastern University, 2016-2019 all years
  • First Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2017
  • MCM/ICM Meritorious Winner, Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application, 2017
  • Yao Tianshun Scholarship, Northeastern University, 2016
  • First Prize in National Mathematics Competition, Chinese Mathematical Association, 2014 (rank 18th in Sichuan Province)