Awards and Fellowships

National conference awards for the best metallography, China, 1983.

Metallography Awards, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Metallkunde, Germany, 1984.

Awards for academic excellence, HUT, Finland, 1992.

Grantee, Center for International mobility (CIMO), Finland, 1992.

Research Fellowship, Academy of Finland, 1994.

Research Fellowships, Catholic Univ. of Leuven, Belgium, 1995, 1996.

Senior Research Fellowship, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 1998

Research Outstanding and Award Recognition (ROAR), Office of Research, Nanyang Technological University, 2005, 2006, 2007.

Professional Services

Co-Chairman, IUMRS 11th International Conference in Asia, Smart Materials Symposium, Sep.25-28, 2010, Qingdao, China.

Session Chairman, International Conference on Aerospace Materials (Beijing Int'l Materials Week) June 25-30, 2006, China.

Session Chairman, Materials 2005, December 6-8, Malaysia.

Session Chairman, ICOMAT'05, June 14-17, 2005, Shanghai, China.

Chairman, SMART2004, Nov. 24-26, 2004, Singapore.

Session Chairman, IUMRS-ICAM Symposium on Smart Materials and Structure, Oct. 8-9, 2003, Japan.

Session Chairman, ICOMAT'02, June 10-14, 2002, Finland.

Session Chairman, Thin Film 2004, July 2004, Singapore.

Member of Editorial Board, Proceedings of ICOMAT-02.

Guest Editor, Smart Materials and Structures (for Proceedings of SMART 2004).

Organizing Committee Member of

IUMRS 11th International Conference in Asia, Smart Materials Symposium, Sep.25-28, 2010, Qingdao, China

The International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST), Nov. 6-9, 2011, Hong Kong, China

Materials 2005, December 6-8, Malaysia

ICOMAT-05, June 14-17, 2005, Shanghai, China

Thin Films 2002, Singapore

        Thin Films 2004, Singapore

Reviewed articles for over 20 scientific journals and international conferences

Talks given at

Harbin Engineering University, China, December 2010.

Xiamen University, China, June 2009.

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astranautics, China, January 2008.

Tsinghua University, China, January 2008.

Xiamen University, China, May 2007

Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China, June 2005.

Beijing University of Science and Technology, China, July 2002.

Dalian University of Technology, China, July 2002.

Dalian Railway Institute, China, July 2002.

University of Minnesota, USA, Oct. 1998.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, Oct. 1998.

Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, May 1995.

Memberships

Materials Research Society (MRS Since 2000)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA Since 2006)

New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS Since 1994)