2018 Best Open Category Paper of 2017.Molecular and Human Genetics Retreat, Galveston, TX, USA.
2017 First Place Winner, 8-min Pitch Competition. TTBAXTECO Lecture, Houston, TX, USA.
2015 Beckman First Place Platform Speaker Winner. The 28th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
2013 First Place Winner. Science, Engineering and Technology Seminars Poster Contest, Sugar Land, TX, USA. [In the News]World Journal
2013 Second Place Winner. Roy M. Huffington Distinguished Lecture Poster Session, Basic Science Category, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
2008 Young Scientist Poster Award. The Chinese Society of Animal Science Annual Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
Research Fellowships
2018-2021 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. $298,578 [In the News]Cornell Chronicle [In the News]Office of the Vice Provost for Research
2013-2015 Houston Laboratory and Population Sciences Training Program in Gene-Environment Interaction Burroughs Wellcome Fund, USA. $51,895
2008 International Summer Research Scholars Program Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Other Awards
2022 Travel Award, supported by the Center for Vertebrate Genomics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
2017 Third Place Winner. Worm Art Show, The 21st International C. elegans Conference, UCLA, CA, USA.
2014 Travel Scholarship, supported by the Gill Foundation of Texas, USA. ($1,000)
2013 Travel Scholarship, supported by the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. ($1,000)
2010 Undergraduate Study Abroad Exchange Student Scholarship, at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. ($13,800)
2009 Yu-Chuan Welfare and Education Foundation Scholarship, Taiwan.
2009 Mr. Shih-Liang Chien Memorial Scholarship, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2009 Agricultural Association of Taiwan Scholarships, Taiwan.
2008 Agricultural Association of Taiwan Scholarships, Taiwan.
2008 Alumni of the Department of Animal Science and Technology Scholarship, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2008 Known-You Social Welfare Foundation scholarship, Taiwan.
2006-2009 Six-time recipient of the Presidential Award Scholarships, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.