Awards and honors
* The Student Travel Award of ACL, supported by the Donald and Betty Walker Student Scholarship Fund 2012
* Richard King Mellon Presidential Fellowship in Life Science, Carnegie Mellon University 2011-2012
* Graduate Research Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University 2011
* Best Presentation Runner-up, LTI Student Research Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University 2011
* Computer Science Chair's Distinguished Fellowship, Columbia Univ.(declined) 2011
* International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Grant 2011
* Best Paper Award finalist, the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference 2011
* Graduate Research Assistantship with Full Tuition Waiver and Monthly Stipend, Columbia Univ. 2010
* 2nd Prize, the First Annual Spoken Dialog System Demostration Competition, Columbia Univ. 2010
* 1st Place, Microsoft Elites Competition, Microsoft Shenzhen Technology Center 2008
* University Scholarship, Top Class Honor 2007-2008
* Namtai Fellowship, Top 5% 2007-2008
* Outlook Award, China Central Television "Star of Outlook" National Final , Beijing 2007 (Rank No. 1 in Guangdong Province)
* Diplomacy Award, Beijing International Model United Nation (Mr. Li Zhaoxing in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse)
* Shenzhen University Innovative Credits Award (3 Credits) 2007
* Representative of P.R. China, China Future Leadership Projects, U.S.A. 2007
* University Scholarship, Top Class Honor 2006-2007
* Namtai Fellowship, Top 5% 2006-2007
* Shenzhen University Innovative Credits Award (6 Credits) 2006
* Representative of SZU, 2006 Hong Kong Pan-pearl River Delta forum, HK 2006
* President, Shenzhen University English Association (2,400 Members) 2006-2007
* Director, Shenzhen University Association Union (16,000 Members) 2006-2007
* Asian-Pacific ABU Robocon Competition, Hong Kong Final 2004