Awards/Honors
- 2012 SUNY Buffalo Mark Diamond Research Fund Award
- 2011 SUNY Buffalo Virginia Barnes Endowment Travel Award
- 2010 SUNY Buffalo Virginia Barnes Endowment Travel Award
- 2007 SUNY Buffalo Gilbert D. Moore Fellowship
- 2005 Howard Hughes Professors Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- 2005 UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholarship
- 2003-2007 UCLA College Honors Program
Medical School Activities
- 2011: SUNY at Buffalo Polity (Student Government, MD-PhD Program Representative)
- 2011-Present: Lighthouse Free Clinic (Volunteer)
Extracurricular Interests
- cooking (only recipes that involve <10 ingredients and <5 steps)
- reading (behavioral economics, history, self-improvement)
- traveling (still working on visiting every state in America and every province in China)
- sports (watching basketball and American football; practicing martial arts)
- collecting antiques (my father and I have a small collection of coins, swords, and jade figurines)
Undergraduate Education
- Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG),
UCLA