Grants

I have secured a total amount of US$ 248,000 in research grants and academic awards.

This demonstrates the interdisciplinary appeal and real-world relevance of my research. With a high-impact research agenda, I am well-positioned to attract substantial grants in the future.

Research Grants

5 grants (4 external and 1 university level), all as the sole Principal Investigator (PI).

1. Research and Impact Support Fund (Artificial Intelligence Spotlight Call), £ 4,817, LSE, 2024-25
    Top 16 student awardees in the inaugural cohort, highlighted by LSE: World-leading AI Research

2. OpenAI’s Researcher Access Program, US$ 5,000, OpenAI, 2024-25
    Tailored ChatGPT API for social science research (e.g., LLM sycophancy and persuasion)

3. Google Cloud Research Credits, US$ 1,000, Google, 2024-25

4. ACM WebSci24 Student Grant, € 500, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024

5. SICSS Research Grant, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), USA, 2021
    Top 25 awardees among 21 sites worldwide, highlighted by SSRC: SICSS Research Grantees

Selected Academic Awards

LSE Ph.D. Studentship, £ 170,000, LSE (80 Places across All Departments), 2022-26

Information Technology and Politics Section Travel Grant, US $250, American Political Science Association, 2024

Postgraduate Travel Fund, £ 1,000, LSE, 2024

Ph.D. Academy Micro-Internship Award, £ 1,000, LSE, 2023

Postgraduate Studentship, HK$ 430,000, HKUST, 2020-22

Dean’s Award, HKUST (3 Places, Top 5%), 2020

Scholarship for UCLA Study, SDU, 2017

Declined Offers

Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship, HK$ 1,010,000, Hong Kong Research Grant Council

Computational Social Science (CSS) Ph.D. Fellowship, HK$ 210,000, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) CSS Lab

Vice-Chancellor’s Ph.D. Scholarship, HK$ 80,000, CUHK