Awards and Honors

1. Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE). This prestigious award is open to post-docs and young assistant professors and it recognizes the best paper presented by a "Young Investigator" at a session of the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings sponsored by the SIE
2. Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society (IBS) Eastern North American Region (ENAR) for the 2007 ENAR Spring Meeting
3. Fellow Award for Research Excellence (FARE) from National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2007
4. Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Laha Travel Award for the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) /IMS Annual Meeting, 2007
5. Overall first place Winner of the Scientific Poster Competition from Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Alpha Chapter, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007. Representing Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to present a poster at the 2007 Annual American Public Health Association (APHA) meeting
6. Louis I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award for the Advancement of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007
7. Second Prize of Graduate Students Oral Presentations in Probability and Statistics Day hosted by Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April 28, 2007
8. Cancer Training Research Award from National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (2005-present)
9. Best of the Biostatistics Student Posters, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007
10. Joseph Zeger Travel Award for the 2007 ENAR Spring Meeting from Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007
11. Student Conference Fund from Student Assembly, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2006
12. Guanghua Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, October 1999
13. Good Academic Graduate Student Award (top 5%), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, October 1999
14. IBM Certified Specialist of AIX V4.1 System Administration, Profession Certification Program from IBM, April 1999
15. Certificate of Computer Software Programmer, China, October 1997