Awards and Achievements

Merit-Based Awards

2022-2026 Taiwan-Northwestern University Scholarship, Ministry of Education in Taiwan
Received before starting Ph.D. program. This is a package that covers half of my expenses of doctoral study for four years.
2025 Martin Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NU
Selected as one of the four recipients out of the entire department for this mid-career fellowship
2023 Predictive Science & Engineering Design (PSED) Fellow, The Graduate School, NU
Receved for outstanding research potential and academic performance. It covers some of my expenses in Ph.D. program for a year, and offered a collaborative platform to encourage student working on projects related to design problems with optimization tools.
2022 Walter-Murphy Scholarship, The Graduate School, NU
Received as I got accepted by Northwestern. It provided to sponser outstanding Ph.D. applicants for their 1st.

2025 Outstanding Paper Award in Manufacturing Systems, North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 53)
The only paper selected in Manufacturing Systems out of 270+ submissions.
2021 17th HIWIN Master’s Thesis Award, Honorable Mention, HIWIN Corp.
Received this award with USD $3500. This is the highest master’s thesis award in the M.E. field in Taiwan.
2020 Matlab Research Competition, Best Paper Award, Mathworks
I got invited to give a seminar at the 2020 Matlab Expo in Taiwan as the recepient of this award.
2020 1st place in Master Thesis Award, Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME)
Awarded at the Annual Meeting of CSME.
2020 Dean’s Award in Outstanding Master Thesis, School of Engineering, NTU
Awarded to the top 5% thesis in the School of Engineering.

2018 Phi Tau Phi Honor, NCKU
Awarded to the top 1% students in academic performance from each department.
2015-2018 Dean’s List, NCKU
Awarded to the top 10% students in the class every once a year.

2025 NSF Fellowship Award for the Traveling Grant to NAMRC 53 (Greenville)
2025 Fellowship Award for the Traveling Grant to USNCCM 18 conference (Chicago)
2023 NSF Fellowship Award for the Traveling Grant to 2nd IACM MMLDE-CSET conference (El Paso)
2023 NSF Traveling Award for the Frontier in Design Representation (FinDeR) Summer School (Maryland)

2025 Mentorship Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NU
This award recognizes students who have distinguished themselves through mentorship of more junior PhD students, MS students, undergraduates, or high school students.
2020 Outstanding TA (Unofficial), NTU
Recognized as an outstanding TA and be invited as a speaker at the TA workshop.
2017 Young College Elite, Youth Corps of ROC (Taiwan)
Awarded to students with sigificant contributions to the campus. I received this award for my services in student organizations. I was also the representitive of Tainan City.

2018 National Electric Vehicle Innovation Design and Construction Competition: 2nd in Racing, 3rd in Technical Report

2023 Leon M. Keer and Family Fellowship, Department of MechE, NU
A scholarship of $2500 to support family needs.