Commercialization

• Co-founder, US$2,000,000 (seed round), Qindom Inc., 2018 - 2020

  Investment secured with a former LP of Sequoia. Initiative details are available at the Crunchbase link

Grants

• PI, General Research Fund (GRF), University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, HK$664,000, 2022 - 2024
• PI, Research Seed Fund, The University of Hong Kong, HK$300,000, 2021 - 2023
• PI, Discovery Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC Canada), C$120,000, 2017 - 2023

  Topic: “Data-centric Decision Supports for Large-Scale Social Network Management”.

• PI, Dean’s Research Fund, C$90,000, Schulich School of Business, 2014 - 2017

• Co-PI, Theme-based Research Fund (TRF), HKU FBE Shenzhen Research Institutes, HK$5,000,000, 2023 - 2024
• Collaborator, Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, HK$4,533,000, 2021 - 2023
• Collaborator, National Natural Science Foundation (NSF China), C$90,000, 2017 - 2020

  Topic: “Post-adoptive Behaviors of Mobile Apps: Extended Use and In-App Purchase”.

Awards

• Research Fellowship, Schulich School of Business, York University, 2018
• Design Science Research Award, INFORMS, 2016.

  Topic: “Social Network Analytics: Adoption, Persuasion, Recommendation, and Knowledge Refreshing”.

• Early-career Research Award, Schulich School of Business, York University, 2015 - 2018
• Doctoral Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Orlando, FL, 2012
• Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2007
• “Guanghua” Scholarship and Award, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2006

  Invited acceptance speech.