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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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