Funding, Recognition, and Partnerships
Research Grants
SRI High Performance AI Server
CI. Taumata Teitei RDF Research Fund. $1,150,000
2026–2029
Aotearoa Agentic AI Platform: A Productivity Multiplier
CI. MBIE Artificial Intelligence Research Platform. $250,000 (Phase I)
2026
Efficient and Robust On-device Health Agentic AI
Sole-CI. RDF Contestable Commercialization Seed Funding. $10,000
2026
Health Agent for Privacy-Preserving On-Device Physiological Event Monitoring
Sole-CI. New Staff Research Grant. $20,000
2026
Uncertainty-Aware Test-Time Scaling for LLMs
Sole-CI. Google Research Credits Grant. $24,420
2025
Human-in-the-Loop Responsible AI for Medical Diagnosis and Decision-Making
co-CI. Worldwide Universities Network – Research Development Fund. $40,600
2025
Emotional Speech Generation for Intelligent Dialogue Systems
co-CI. Wuhan University Collaborative Seed Grant. $11,250
2025
Small-Scale LLMs for Health Event Prediction
CI. Google Cloud Research Credits Grant. $16,200
2024
Artificial Internet of Things for Ubiquitous Computing
Sole-CI. Australia Research Training Programme. $259,700
2017–2021
Selected Awards
ACM TOSN Distinguished Reviewer
2026
Best Paper Presentation Award
ACM MobiCom Adjunct
2024
Best Paper Runner-Up Award
ACM IPSN, Top 2% (2/92)
2024
ACM MobiSys Rising Star
ACM SIGMOBILE
2023
Best Poster Runner-Up Award
ACM MobiCom, Top 5% (2/36)
2022
CSIRO's Data61 Scholarship
Joint PhD scholarship with UNSW
2017–2021
Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship
Most Prestigious Australian Government Funded Scholarship, Top 1%
2017–2021
Excellent Graduation Thesis
State Key Lab of Robotics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Top 1% (1/67)
2015
