Awards

Research Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships:

• M4B Semiconductors, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK (2024)

Project: "Carrier transport measurement of colloidal semiconducting quantum dots for infrared camera products"

• Nano-Integration Project, EPSRC CDT in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoDTC), University of Cambridge, UK (2023)

Project: "Electrochemical etching system of porous GaN"

• Research Associateship, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK (2023)

• FRQNT PhD Fellowship - ranked 1st, The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT), Canada (2021)

Project: "Metal-catalyzed lateral epitaxy of InP on Si for integrable quantum cascade lasers"

• BLUE - Beautiful Limitless Unconstrained Exploration Fellowship, Building 21, McGill University, Canada

Project: "Quantum theory for mining businesses evaluation"

• McGill Engineering Doctoral Award, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Canada (2019)

• Masters to PhD Fast-Track Award, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Canada (2019)

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong (2019)

Project: "Selective area p-type doping for GaN power devices by multicycle rapid thermal annealing"

• DAAD Exchange Scholarship, Government of Germany (2016)

• Monbukagakusho Scholarship, Government of Japan (2015)

Travel and Community Grants:

• Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award, McGill University (2022)

For a research travel to the collaborators at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

•  IEEE NTC Student Earnest Travel Award, IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2021) 

For attending the 16th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference

•  PGSS Travel Grant, Post-Graduate Student Society, McGill University (2021)

For attending the 63rd Electronic Materials Conference organized by Materials Research Society

• West Hub Small Grant, University of Cambridge, UK (2023)

• Community Kick-Start Grants, Cambridge City Council, UK (2022)

Other Honors:

• Research Excellence Awards (2 years in a row), McGill University, Canada (2021 & 2022) 

Awarded to the top 10 junior scientists (graduate students & postdocs) based on research achievements.  

• TISED Changemakers Award, the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, Canada (2021) 

Awarded to 3 graduate students for outstanding sustainability-related research presentations.  

• Best Presentation Award, Mining and Materials Graduate Student Conference, McGill University, Canada (2021)  

• ELATE Graduate Award – in Teaching, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Canada (2020) 

In recognition of excellence in undergraduate engineering teaching and mentorship.  

• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Earth Science, Mineral, and Energy (2020)  

• Graduate Excellence Awards (2 years in a row), McGill University, Canada (2019 & 2020) 

In recognition of outstanding academic achievements by early years graduate students