Awards and Grants
A Summary of awards, fellowships and grants I have received.
Awards and Fellowships
2020 Breakthrough Prize in Physics (EHT Collaboration), 2019
NASA Hubble Fellowship Program - Einstein Fellowship, 2019
Heising-Simons Research Fellowship, 2018
McGill Space Institute Fellowship and McGill Astrophysics Fellowship (Decl.), 2016
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF), 2013-2016
NASA Group Achievement Award (for NuSTAR Galactic Plane Survey team), 2016
NASA Group Achievement Award (for NuSTAR project team), 2015
NASA Group Achievement Award (for NuSTAR science team), 2014
Columbia University Faculty Fellowship, 2010-2012
National Astronomical Observatory of China Scholarship, 2009
Tsinghua University Outstanding Scientic Research Scholarship, 2008, 2009
Friends of Tsinghua - Nuctech Scholarship
SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS AND PERSONAL GRANTS
Total External Grants brought to host institutes as PI: $713,611.00
PI, NuSTAR Cycle-7 GO Proposal, “Unveiling the Nature of a Unique Galactic Center X-ray Filament XMM 0.173-0.413 using NuSTAR and MeerKAT”, 120 ks, $75,687, 2021-2022
PI, Chandra Cycle-22 Archive Proposal “A Study of Galactic Center X-ray Filaments using 11.7 Ms Archival Chandra Data from 1999 to 2019”, $69,100, 2021-2023
PI, NuSTAR Cycle-6 GO proposal “Joint NuSTAR and EHT Probe of Sgr A⋆: Flares, Blackhole Shadows and a New Hard X-ray Source”, 100 ks, $69,911, 2021-2022
Science PI, 2019 NASA Hubble Fellowship, "Supermassive Blackholes and Exotic Physics in Galactic Nuclei of Local Galaxies", $317,371, 2019
PI, NuSTAR Cycle-5 GO Proposal #5125, "Unveiling the Nature of a Galactic Cener Non-thermal Filaments: Pulsar wind Nebular or Magnetic Structure?", $69,911, 2019-2021
PI, Chandra Cycle-20 Archive Proposal #20620472, "A Systematic Analysis on M31* X-ray Variability with 3 Ms of Chandra Data from 1999 to 2016", $55,000, 2019-2021
PI, XMM-Newton AO Cycle-16 #80241, "Probing Galactic Center MeV-GeV Cosmic-ray Population with Sgr B2 Ka Line Emission", 100 ks, $56,633, 2018-2021
Co-I, NuSTAR GO Cycle-4, "Optimizing Sensitivity to Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter in the Galactic Center", 100ks, $72,000, 2019-2021
Science PI, Chandra GTO Cycle-19 #19610778, "Probing MeV-GeV Electrons in the X-ray Regime Using Molecular Cloud Bania's Clump2", 100 ks
PI, NuSTAR GO Cycle-1 #01302, "Investigating Mysterious Hard X-ray source in the SNR-MC Interaction Region of IC 443 with NuSTAR", 100 ks
Co-I, XMM-Newton GO, cycle-16 #080269, "XMM Observation of ten Hard X-ray source discovered in the Galactic Center"
Investigator responsible for 500 ks+ observation on Sgr A* fares, Sgr B2, Galactic center laments during NuSTAR Galactic Plane Survey legacy program in 2014-2018
Observation planner and investigator for > 1 Ms Galactic Center and Galactic Plane Survey during NuSTAR baseline mission in 2012-2014
Science PI, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, Grant #NNX13AM31, "Investigating Hard X-ray Outbursts from the Galactic center Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*", $90,000, 2013-2016
IAU Symposium 322 "Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre" Travel Award, AUD $1,000, 2016
Columbia University Faculty Fellowship, $150,000, 2010-2012
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