2025: Hong Kong Polytechnic University China Accounting and Finance Review (CAFR) special issue conference, keynote speaker;

    Hong Kong City University VIP seminar speaker

2024: Chair Professor in the Changjiang Scholar Program of China’s Ministry of Education

2022: Invited speaker at the SoFiE Summer School of New York University Shanghai

2020: Jay Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award, Purdue University;

    Distinguished Teacher Award (Master’s elective), Purdue University

2017: Republic Bank Research Fellow, Texas A&M University

2015: Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Portfolio Management

2014: NASDAQ OMX Awardfor theBest Paper onAsset Pricing at the Western Finance Association Meetings (WFA);

    INQUIRE-Europe-UK Best Paper Award;

    Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Portfolio Management

2008-2013: Duke University Fellowship

2006-2008: University of Minnesota Graduate Scholarship (full Ph.D. scholarship, later changed to a master's scholarship)

2006: Graduated with honors from Tsinghua University

2002-2005: Academic Excellence Scholarship from Tsinghua University

2001: First Prize in the High School Mathematics League (qualified for direct admission to Peking University), Second Prize in the Physics League, Second Prize in the Chemistry League