FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2022-2024 - NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology ($138,000)
2020-2021 - Merit Fellowship, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ($15,280)
2012-2014 - Erasmus Mundus Category A Scholarship, European Commission (€48,000)
2010-2011 - Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship for Foreign Students (¥960,000)
Awards & Honors
2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 - Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
2020-2021 - Simmons Awards, Harvard Center for Biological Imaging
2020 - Rising Star in Organismal Botany Award, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
2018 - Katherine Esau Award for the best presentation in Developmental and Structural Botany
2018 - 2nd Place for Triarch "Botanical Images" Student Travel Award, Botanical Society of America
2018 - SDB Emerging Model Systems Grant, Society of Developmental Biology
2017 - Travel Award, Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology
2017 - Developmental & Structural Section Student Travel Award, Botanical Society of America
2017 - The J. S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award, Botanical Society of America
2017 - 1st Place for Triarch "Botanical Images" Student Travel Award, Botanical Society of America
2017 - The Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Fund, New England Botanical Club
Leadership
2023-2025 - BSA Early Career Professional Development Committee
2021 - Co-organizer of Asian, Asian American & Pacific Islander mixer at Botany2021 conference
2021 - Co-organizer of Botanical Trivia at Botany2021 conference (2021) - read the event recap here.
2021 - Strategic planning committee of the Botanical Society of America
Participate in generating a strategic plan that will guide the vision and mission of the society for the next five years (2021-2026).
2020 - Ambassador for IS-MPMIConnect
IS-MPMIConnect is an interactive platform to build a stronger community for members and supporters of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI).
2018-2020 - Student Representative of Botanical Society of America
Served on the Board of Directors; connect student members to the society
Organized workshops, Careers in Botany Luncheon , annual Student Social/Networking, CV/Resume coaching booth, etc. for annual Botany conferences
Responsible for articles for Student Session in Plant Science Bulletin (three issues per year)
2019 - Plant Summit III (Tucson, USA)
Representing Botanical Society of America; one of three graduate students among 52 participants representing 15 professional societies, three government agencies, and private companies
Participated in drafting vision statement, strategic priorities, research goals and research agenda of plant biology for the coming decade (2020-2030). The Decadal Vision will be presented to congress, funding agencies, and plant biology community