Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award (as a team member), University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Outstanding Researcher Award, University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Research Output Prize, University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Overseas and Hong Kong, Macau Young Scholars Collaborative Research Fund, National Science Foundation of China, 2009. (This award was previously known as "Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award", but the title has been changed to the present one.)
The Best Paper Prize, International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, 2005.
Inclusion of one paper in the very first volume of Discrete Mathematics - Editors' Choice, 1999.