Awards & Recognitions

2011 Stephen O Rice Prize, IEEE Communications Society

Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers

Fellow of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures

First class, Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences

Knight of l’Ordre National du Mérite

Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Franklin Prize for Excellence in Teaching

“The Early Modern Economy at the Two Ends of Eurasia: A Comparative Study of the GDP of the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century” Project Awarded $302,000 by the Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund

Selected to join the National Science and Technology Programmes Expert Database

2011 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Advancement Award