| Feb 2026 | 🥇 WTS Scholarship: Happy to get notified that I am the WTS SF Chapter’s winner for the Bridgette Beato Leadership Legacy Graduate Scholarship. |
| Jan 2026 | 🎉 Stanford Energy Fellow: I was selected as one of 10 scholars worldwide from different fields for the Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship can grant for three years independent research funding with flexible duration. |
| Dec 2025 | 🎤 NeurIPS Presentation: I presented a poster at NeurIPS 2025. |
| Nov 2025 | 🎤 BARS Presentation: I gave a Student Spotlight Talk at Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2025. |
| Nov 2025 | 🎤 Guest Lecture & Mobility Lab Seminar at UCLA: I gave a guest lecture & Mobility Lab Seminar at UCLA. |
| Nov 2025 | 🎤 Google X SESE Panelist: I served as the panelist on “Agents, Memory, and Simulation” at the event held by Google and SESE. |
| Oct 2025 | 🎤 INFORMS Job Market Showcase Talk: I gave my job market showcase talk at INFORMS 2025 at Atlanta. |
| Oct 2025 | 🎤 USC AAI Seminar: I gave a talk at the Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (AAI) seminar at USC. |
| Sep 2025 | 🎤 eMERGE Seminar: I gave a talk at the eMERGE Seminar. ▶️ Watch the talk here |
| Sep 2025 | 🚀 MIT EECS Rising Star: I am honored to be selected as an EECS Rising Star! I will attend the workshop held by MIT and BU at the end of Octorber. |
| Aug 2025 | 🎤 IGSI Panelist: I served as the panelist for International GSI Perspectives Panel at UC Berkeley for the third time. |
| Jul 2025 | 🎤 ACC Presentations: I gave an oral presentation and an invited poster presentation at ACC 2025. |
| Jun 2025 | 🎉 Eno Fellow: I was selected as one of 17 graduate students nationwide for the prestigious Eno LDC at the Eno Center for Transportation, and I am super honored to be awarded the Rodney E. Slater Award. |
| May 2025 | 🏆 Athena Award Winner: I am honored to receive the Athena Award for Graduate Student Leadership from EDGE in Tech as the sole winner! |
| May 2025 | 🎤 NeuS Presentation: I presented our work on Neural Finite Volume Method at NeuS 2025. |
| Apr 2025 | 🥈 Berkeley Grad Slam Runner-up: I am excited to be the campus-wide runner-up winner at the 2025 Berkeley Grad Slam competition with my research on traffic flow smoothing! |
| Apr 2025 | 🎤 Harvard EE Seminar: I presented my work on Physics-Informed Learning and Control for Intelligent Transportation at Harvard EE Seminar. |
| Mar 2025 | 🚀 NSF CPS Rising Star: I am honored to be selected as an NSF CPS Rising Star! |
| Oct 2024 | 🥇 AAa/e Graduate Scholarship First Place: I was awarded the Asian American Architects and Engineers Foundation (AAa/e) Graduate Scholarship (First Place) . Due to an unexpected medical issue, I will be receiving the award at the 2025 AAa/e Awards Banquet instead of 2024. I am grateful for the support of the foundation and look forward to celebrating with the community next year! |
| Oct 2024 | 🚀 CMU ME Rising Star: I am honored to be selected as a Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering by CMU! |
| Jul 2024 | 🎤 ISTTT25 Presentation: I presented our work on Kernel-based Planning and Imitation Learning Control for Flow Smoothing in Mixed Autonomy Traffic at ISTTT25. |
| May 2024 | 🏆 Evergreen Award for Undergraduate Reseracher Mentoring: I was awarded the Evergreen Award for Undergraduate Researcher Mentoring by the EECS department at UC Berkeley. |
| Apr 2024 | 🏆 Oski Student Leadership Award: Honored to receive the Oski Student Leadership Award – Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence, the sole campus-wide award recognizing outstanding contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at UC Berkeley. |
| Oct 2023 | 🥇 INFORMS Poster Competition First Place: Thrilled to be the First-place Winner of the 2023 INFORMS Poster Competition — selected as 1 of 4 winners out of 200 participants (Top 2%). |
| Aug 2023 | 🏆 ITS & CTF Scholarship: Grateful to be awarded the ITS California and California Transportation Foundation (ITSCA & CTF) Scholarship, supporting future leaders in intelligent transportation systems and sustainable mobility. |
| Jun 2023 | 🎤 IEEE IV Presentations: I gave an invited workshop presentation and a poster presentation at IEEE IV 2023. |
| Mar 2022 | 🏆 Outstanding GSI: Recognized as an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) at UC Berkeley, awarded to the top 10% of GSIs for exceptional teaching and mentorship. |