Honors:
- Invited paper in the Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-24, Jan. 2004.
- Invited speaker on the Conference of Asia Pacific Optical Communications (APOC), Beijing, China, Nov. 2004.
- Invited speaker on the Conference of Asia Pacific Optical Communications (APOC), Wuhan, China, Nov. 2007.
Awards:
- ARC Australian Postdoc Fellow (APD), Australia, 2008-2011.
- NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowships, Canada, 11/2005.
- Alberta Ingenuity Industrial Associateships (highest score among all the applicants, but I had to decline it as I won NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowship as well), Alberta, Canada, 11/2005.
- J. Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award, University of Alberta, Canada, 09/2005.
- Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship Winner (This is the most prestigious graduate award administered by the University of Alberta), University of Alberta, Canada, 05/2004-01/2006.
- iCore Graduate Student Scholarship, Alberta, Canada, 05/2004-01/2006.
- TRLabs Graduate Student Scholarship, Canada, 01/2002-01/2006.
- Singapore Lee Fundation Conference Travel Grant, 1999.
- Graduate Student Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 03/1998-08/1999.