Selected Honors and Awards

• MIT Rising Star in Chemical Engineering Program (2021)​​
• Columbia University Rising Star in Engineering in Health Program  (2021)
• MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 China (MIT TR35, 2020)
• Selected as one of MATTER’s 12 favourite articles (2020) 
• TR35 Global Semi-Finalist Honoree (MIT TR100), MIT Technology Review (2020)
• Invited Speaker at TEDxBallston (2020)
• ​Young Investigator Award in Northern California Chapter American Association of Physicists (2019)
• Invited Speaker at Brain and Electrochemistry Symposium in Atlanta, The Electrochemical Society (2019)​
• Topic Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience-Neuroprosthetics and Frontiers in Neurorobotics (2020-Present)
• Seminar Committee, Stanford Neurosciences Institute (2019-Present)
• Invited Speaker at Northern California Chapter of the AAPM-Young Investigator Symposium, University of California, Berkeley (2019)
• Cui “galaxy” of single atoms was featured as a Happy Holidays highlight on the Molecular Foundry website at Berkeley Lab (2019)
• Winner of the 2018 NanoArt Image Contest, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2018)
• Best Poster Award of Vision Forum, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017)
• Extraordinary Graduate Student Honor (2016)
• Invited Speaker Honor at Singapore Challenge, Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @one-north (2016)
• Highlighted and Featured in the Annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony Honor at Fudan among all of scholarship winners (2015)
• Elected as ONLY one of 479 Outstanding students Honor from all Baosteel’s Prize Scholars to present oral talk of their research (2015)
• Baosteel’s National Grand Prize Award (Ranked #1 Nationally, 1/479), BAOWU STEEL GROUP (2015)
• Excellent Award of Nano Art Exhibition, Fudan University (2015)
• Best Teaching Assistant Award for General Chemistry (2015)
• Invited Speaker Honor at Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference, Universitas 21 (2015)
• Best Teaching Award for the First National Brand Course, Fudan University (2015)
• Academic Star Honoree (Top 10), Fudan University (2014)​
• 1st Place, Unilever-RSC Presentation Competition, Royal Society of Chemistry (2014)
• Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA), Dow Chemical Company (2014)
• Top Outstanding Student Honor, Fudan University (2014)
• Guanghua Award (2014)
• National Scholarship (2014)
• Invited Speaker Honor at Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference in New Zealand (Top 4), Universitas 21 (2014)
• Distinguished BASF Award, BASF Corporation (2013)
• Excellent Award of Nano Art Exhibition, Fudan University (2013)
• Luk Chung Lam Award, Luk Chung Lam Education Foundation (2013)
• Excellent Student Honor, Fudan University (2013)
• Outstanding Interdisciplinary Graduate Scholarship, Fudan University (2013)
• Fudan Graduate Fellowship (2012-2016)
• Outstanding Poster Award of Doctoral Forum, Fudan University (2012)
• Guanghua Award (2011)
• Excellent Shanghai World Expo Volunteer Team Honor (2010)
• Outstanding Student Scholarship (2009-2012)
• Excellent Student Honoree, Four Times (2008-2012)

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