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Impact

Talks and recognition

Invited sessions, challenge podiums, and proof points for the research practice.

Honors, awards, and invited sessions collected in one place—proof points for collaborators, committees, and partners.

Awards

Recognition & honors

Proof points

Scholarships, hackathon podiums, and academic distinctions reinforcing the research work.

Entrance Scholarship, Qiskit Advocate, and Dean's List signals.Logos from issuers and partners
AwardSep 2025 · Connected DMV · Quantum World Congress

Global Industry Challenge – JPMorgan Chase (Winner)

Winner on the JPMorgan Chase track for the Johnson Graph Spectral Mixer QAOA design.

AwardSep 2025 · Connected DMV

Global Industry Challenge – Wells Fargo (2nd Place)

Second place with a constant-depth, ancilla-free circuit for measurement-driven evolution on the Wells Fargo track.

AwardSep 2025 · Connected DMV

Global Industry Challenge – World Bank (Finalist)

Finalist for a quantum-enhanced climate risk insurance model for Philippine cyclone scenarios.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology crest
AwardFeb 2024 · HKUST

Dean's List, School of Science

Top 10% in Fall 2023–24 with TGA of at least 3.7 across 12+ credits.

MIT wordmark
AwardJan 2023 · MIT

iQuHack – IonQ Remote Challenge (3rd Place)

Quantum Image Classifier: Fashion-MNIST using quantum transfer learning tuned for IonQ hardware.

Quantum Coalition mark
AwardApr 2021 · Yale/Stanford Quantum Coalition

QCHack - IBM Technical Challenge (2nd Place)

Ternary extrapolation of Grover's Algorithm for fast database search via Qiskit Pulse.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology crest
AwardSep 2018 · HKUST

Entrance Scholarship for Academic Excellence

USD18,000 full-tuition entrance scholarship recognizing academic excellence.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology crest
HonorScholarship

Entrance Scholarship for Academic Excellence

HKUST — full entrance scholarship at matriculation; foundation for the BSc research track.

Qiskit community mark
HonorCommunity

Qiskit Advocate (since 2021)

Global recognition for mentorship, curriculum design, and open-source quantum contributions.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology crest
HonorDistinction

Dean's List, School of Science

HKUST — top 10% in Fall 2023–24 with advanced quantum information and AMO coursework.

Awards

Recognition & honors

Scholarships, hackathon podiums, and academic distinctions reinforcing the research work.

Honors & credentials

Entrance Scholarship, Qiskit Advocate, and Dean's List signals.

Entrance Scholarship for Academic Excellence

Scholarship

HKUST — full entrance scholarship at matriculation; foundation for the BSc research track.

Qiskit Advocate (since 2021)

Community

Global recognition for mentorship, curriculum design, and open-source quantum contributions.

Dean's List, School of Science

Distinction

HKUST — top 10% in Fall 2023–24 with advanced quantum information and AMO coursework.

Impact

Talks and recognition

Invited sessions, challenge podiums, and proof points for the research practice.

Talks

Conference sessions and invited sharing.

2 · Talks
Jul 2022Goyang, KR

Robust state discrimination using a geometric gate

NANO KOREA 2022 Symposium

Presented geometric-gate state discrimination for superconducting qubits at NANO KOREA 2022.

Event page
Jun 2020Virtual

Efficient production of Bose-Einstein Condensates of 168Er

APS DAMOP Meeting

Shared dipolar BEC production techniques enabling long-range interaction studies for ultracold erbium atoms.

Event page

Awards

Scholarships, hackathon podiums, and academic distinctions reinforcing the research work.

7 · Awards
Sep 2025Connected DMV · Quantum World Congress

Global Industry Challenge – JPMorgan Chase (Winner)

Winner on the JPMorgan Chase track for the Johnson Graph Spectral Mixer QAOA design.

Sep 2025Connected DMV

Global Industry Challenge – Wells Fargo (2nd Place)

Second place with a constant-depth, ancilla-free circuit for measurement-driven evolution on the Wells Fargo track.

Sep 2025Connected DMV

Global Industry Challenge – World Bank (Finalist)

Finalist for a quantum-enhanced climate risk insurance model for Philippine cyclone scenarios.

Feb 2024HKUST

Dean's List, School of Science

Top 10% in Fall 2023–24 with TGA of at least 3.7 across 12+ credits.

Jan 2023MIT

iQuHack – IonQ Remote Challenge (3rd Place)

Quantum Image Classifier: Fashion-MNIST using quantum transfer learning tuned for IonQ hardware.

Apr 2021Yale/Stanford Quantum Coalition

QCHack - IBM Technical Challenge (2nd Place)

Ternary extrapolation of Grover's Algorithm for fast database search via Qiskit Pulse.

Sep 2018HKUST

Entrance Scholarship for Academic Excellence

USD18,000 full-tuition entrance scholarship recognizing academic excellence.