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  • American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2022 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award for growing research accomplishments and leadership in climate model development
  • 2022 NOAA OAR Employee Of the Year Award for exemplary scientific leadership in the development and utilization of high-resolution climate models for studying extreme weather and extreme precipitation under climate change
  • 2022 NOAA Administrator’s Award for advancing the understanding of the Earth System by developing and applying NOAA’s state-of-the-art Coupled Carbon-Chemistry-Climate model
  • Ranked #618 among the Reuters hot 1000 list of the world’s top climate scientists in 2020.
  • Recipient of 2018 NOAA OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Award (Climate category) (This award recognizes the preeminent science that OAR employees and affiliates publish through rigorous peer review processes. Awards are under three categories corresponding to NOAA’s mission goals in Climate, Oceans and Great Lakes, and Weather. There was one paper awarded under each category in December 2018)
  • University Graduate Fellowship. University of B.C., Canada. 1998 – 2001.
  • Lee Scholarship. University of B.C., Canada. Nov. 1998.
  • Second Place Award for the Development in Science and Technology by China Meteorological Administration, 1996.
  • First Place Award for the Development in Science and Technology by National Meteorological Center of China, 1996.
  • Outstanding Paper Award, Shanghai Meteorological Center, China. 1994, 1995.