2000 Selected as Chang Jiang Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education
2002 Selected into the New Century Excellent Talents Program
2003 Selected as Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leader
2005 Awarded Second Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award
2006 Selected for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2008 Selected into the New Century National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project
2008 Selected as Shanghai Leading Talent
2012 Awarded Second Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Invention Award
2019 Awarded Second Prize of Science and Technology Award by China Association of Circular Economy
2020 Selected as Chongqing Yingcai Outstanding Scientist

2005 China's Significant Optical Achievement (Suppression of Mode-Locked Spikes in Passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 Lasers Using a Twisted-Mode Cavity)
2005 China's Significant Optical Achievement (Selective Resonance Transition via Quantum Coherent Control in Optically Dense Media)
2006 China's Significant Optical Achievement (Generation of Two-Dimensional Multi-Color Arrays and Weak-Light Control in Second-Order Nonlinear Media)
2008 China's Significant Optical Achievement (Surface Optical Field Enhanced Ultraviolet Femtosecond Optical Comb Generation)
2009 China's Significant Optical Achievement (High-Power Fiber Ultrafast Lasers)
2010 China's Significant Optical Achievement (Chalcogenide Glass Micro-Nano Nonlinear Photonic Devices on Silicon Substrate)
2014 China's Significant Optical Achievement (Ultrafast Strong-Field Double Ionization of Acetylene Molecules)

Has published over 300 academic papers in journals including Science Advances, Advanced Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. X, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Light: Science & Applications, Optica, and Communications Physics. Has been invited to deliver over 30 invited presentations at international conferences. Has served as Conference Chair or Co-Chair for organizing committees of over 20 international academic conferences. Has presided over more than 20 national and provincial/ministerial level research projects. Has been granted over 60 invention patents.