honor 2024 ASCB Innovation in Research Award
honor Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research
honor Biophysical Society Early Career Award in Physical Cell Biology
honor Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research
honor 2019-2024 NIH Director's New Innovator Award
honor 2018 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 of China
honor 2016 Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics (one recipient per year worldwide)
honor 2017 Harvard Chinese Life Sciences Distinguished Research Award
honor 2012-2015 Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship
honor 2011 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics (1-2 recipients per year worldwide)