2004–2009 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2002–2004 M.S. in Physics, University of California, San Diego, California
1998–2002 B.S. in Physics, Minor in Economics, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China

2008   William H. Hildebrand Endowed Graduate Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin

          -BioBricks Foundation SB4.0 Travel Award, Synthetic Biology 4.0

          -Inventor Recognition Award, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)

          -BACUS Photomask Scholarship, Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

          -11th ACM/SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC Travel Grant, Association for Computing Machinery                       (ACM)/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)                      

2007   IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Nominee, ECE Department, the University of Texas (only two nominations from the -ECE department)

2005   DAC Young Student Support Program Award, Design Automation Conference

2000   Brilliance Scholarship, Peking University

1999   Gangsong Scholarship, Peking University

1998   Freshman Scholarship, Peking University

1997   Second Prize, Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), Chinese Physical Society

           -Top Prize, CPhO in Henan Province, Chinese Physical Society

1996   First Prize, CPhO in Henan Province, Chinese Physical Society