May 2025
Graduate Division Block Grant
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate support
03 / HIGHLIGHTS
Highlights & honors.
Research stories, journal cover features, fellowships, scholarships, and academic distinctions.
BERKELEY ENGINEERING
Berkeley Engineering’s 2025 in review
The untethered flying robot appeared among Berkeley Engineering’s nine standout stories of 2025 under “Most buzz-worthy.”
IEEE SPECTRUM
The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars, Thanks to Magnets
An independent technology feature on the battery-free, magnetically driven flying robot.
BBC NEWSROUND
Flying robot featured on BBC Newsround
BBC Newsround coverage of the tiny wireless flying robot.
NEW ATLAS
Record-breaking tiny robot offloads electronics to fly by magnetism
Reporting on the miniature flying robot and its externally supplied magnetic actuation.
BERKELEY NEWS
UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot
Berkeley’s original announcement of the subcentimeter-scale flight demonstration.
BERKELEY ENGINEERING
Researchers design soft actuators that mimic “bone-in-flesh” structure of human limbs
A university feature on the bioinspired, magnetically actuated soft structures.
INSTAGRAM
Advanced Design for Weakly Coupled Resonators
Instagram post highlighting our Advanced Materials Technologies paper on automatic active optimization of weakly coupled MEMS resonators.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Inside Front Cover · Bone-in-Flesh Soft Actuators
INSIDE FRONT COVER · 2024ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
Front Cover · Weakly Coupled Resonator Design
COVER FEATURE · 2026Recognition, over time.
Fellowships and graduate support at UC Berkeley, together with undergraduate scholarships, honors, and national competition awards at Peking University.
2025
2024
August 2024
John and Janet McMurtry Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
Fellowship
2023
May 2023
Graduate Division Block Grant
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate support
2022
May 2022
Graduate Division Block Grant
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate support
2020
November 2020
Peking University First-Class Scholarship
Peking University
Scholarship
November 2020
Merit Student, 2019–2020
Peking University
Honor
2019
November 2019
Academician Yang Fuqing and Wang Yangyuan Scholarship
Peking University
Scholarship
November 2019
Merit Student, 2018–2019
Peking University
Honor
August 2019
First Prize, National Zhou Peiyuan College Student Mechanics Competition
China
Competition
2018
December 2018
First Prize, National Physical Competition for College Students in China
China
Competition
December 2018
Benz Scholarship, 2017–2018
Peking University
Scholarship
December 2018
Merit Student, 2017–2018
Peking University
Honor
Awards, dates, and institutions are based on my academic CV.