Grants & Awards

Grants

  • Princeton University Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Fund for Energy Reserach with Corporate Partners (2023-2026) – Re2Rad: Research of Renewables-powered Radiant Systems demonstrating next generation control of comfort, air-quality and emissions – from lab to testbed to industry to campus, Industry Collaborator, USD 600, 000
  • Research Project with Housing Development Board of Singapore (2021-2023) – Optimization Algorithm for Rapid Sustainable Planning and Design, Collaborator, USD 250, 000 (SGD 349,200)
  • Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (2018-2020), USD 130, 000
  • SMART-CENSAM Research Initiative (2017-2018) – Processing Terrestrial LiDAR Scanned Trees for Multi-Disciplinary Analysis, Principal Investigator, USD 5000 (SGD 7000)

Awards

  • CAADRIA Conference 2023, Best Paper Award – Runner Up, “Comparing Design Strategies: A System for Optimization-based Design Exploration” (2023)
  • The Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture award 2020 on Scientific Merit, “Modelling the Built Environment in 3D to Visualize Data from Different Disciplines: The Princeton University Campus” (2020)
  • CAADRIA Conference 2020, Best Paper Award – Runner Up, “Enabling Optimisation-Based Exploration for Building Massing Design - A Coding-free Evolutionary Building Massing Design Toolkit in Rhino-Grasshopper” (2020)
  • Student Poster Competition – 4th Holcim Forum 3rd Prize “Beyond Efficiency” (2013)
  • Young CAARDRIA Award 2013 “A Design Method for Multi-Criteria Optimisation of Low Exergy Architecture” (2013)