Selected Grants & Awards

Grants

I led or made core contribution to the writing of numerous grant and fellowship proposals during Ph.D.
Total funding: $484,334. Total share of funding: $269,667.

  • Governor General's Gold Medal, 2026 The most prestigious award for graduate students in Canada. Only two awarded each year at McGill: one in Natural Sciences and Engineering, one in Social Sciences and Humanities.
  • D. W. Ambridge Prize, McGill University Convocation Award, 2026 Only one awarded in the entire division of Natural Sciences and Engineering across McGill.
  • FRQNT Ph.D. Fellowship, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies, 2024 (rank 1st place)
  • Samsung Global Research Outreach Grant, Samsung Research, 2024 (1 of 11 recipients worldwide)
  • 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

Total award amount: $51,300.

  • 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)