The PI

Award & Honors

2024: Raman award for the most innovative technical development, ICORS, Rome, Italy

2024: Division of Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award, ACS

2024: Charles Delisi Lecture Award, Boston University College of Engineering

2024: Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, SPIE

2022: Boston University Innovator of the Year

2022: Guest Professor, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

2020: Microscopy Today Innovation Award

2020: Associate Editor, Science Advances

2020: Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award from Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh

2019: Ellis R. Lippincott Award from OSA, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society

2019: Fellow of Optica, Optical Society of America

2018: Translational research award from International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

2017: Inaugural Moustakas Chair Professor in Optoelectronics and Photonics, Boston University

2016: Purdue University College of Engineering Research Excellence Award

2016: Translational research award from International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

2015: Craver Award from Coblentz Society

2014-2015: Purdue University Discovery Park Research Fellow

2014: Fellow of AIMBE (American Institute of Medicine and Biological Engineering)

2014: Translational research award from International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)

2012: Editor of the first book on Coherent Raman Microscopy (Taylor & Francis)

2012 – 2017: Purdue University Faculty Scholar

2011: Purdue University Cancer Center Research Excellence Award

2011: Purdue University College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award

2010: Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award

2009: Young Scientist Award from Chinese National Academy of Sciences

2005: Seed of Success, Purdue University

1998: National Outstanding Dissertation Award, the highest honour for PhD students in China

1993: Guo Moruo Scholarship, the highest honour for undergraduates in USTC