Grants

Grants

SRI High Performance AI Server

Taumata Teitei RDF Research Fund. $1,150,000

2026–2029

Aotearoa Agentic AI Platform: A Productivity Multiplier

MBIE Artificial Intelligence Research Platform. $250,000 (Phase I)

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2026

Efficient and Robust On-device Health Agentic AI

RDF Contestable Commercialization Seed Funding. $10,000

2026

Uncertainty-Aware Test-Time Scaling for LLMs

Google Research Credits Grant. $24,420

2025

Human-in-the-Loop Responsible AI for Medical Diagnosis and Decision-Making

Worldwide Universities Network – Research Development Fund. $20,300

2025

Emotional Speech Generation for Intelligent Dialogue Systems

Wuhan University Collaborative Seed Grant. $11,250

2025

Small-Scale LLMs for Health Event Prediction

Google Cloud Research Credits Grant. $16,200

2024

Artificial Internet of Things for Ubiquitous Computing

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