Honors & Awards – EAIR Caucus

2020-2021 Council Fellow Global Future Council on the Korean Peninsula World Economic Forum
2018 IUE Emerging Leaders Fellowship by the Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea
2017 SEAYLP Associate Research Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-Asia)
2011 Academy of Korean Studies Research Fellow
2010 Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship

2017 Taiwan Fellowship Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan), National Chengchi University

2012 UKM Young Researcher’s Fellowship at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO); Tokyo, Japan

2016/2017 Newton Advanced Fellowship (British Academy)
2013/2014 Princeton – Harvard “China and the World Program” (CWP), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Postdoctoral Research Associate
2012/2013 Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford ; Visiting Research Fellow
2012/2013 KPT-UKM Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
2011 Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta; Visiting Fellow
2011 ASEAN Studies Center, American University, Washington, DC; Visiting Scholar
2011 Southeast Asian Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; Visiting Scholar
2009 William and Marie-Daniele Zartman Fellowship, Johns Hopkins SAIS
2008/2009 Chiang ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF) Doctoral Fellowship, Taiwan
2007 Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship Award, Singapore
2006/2007 & 2007/2008 SAIS Ph.D. Student Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
2005/2006 UKM Faculty Development (Study Leave) Award, Malaysia
2003/2004 & 2004/2005 Fulbright Graduate Study Scholarship
2003 Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS); Visiting Fellow
2002/2003 Institute of Asia Pacific Studies (IAPS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing; Visiting Fellow
2002/2003 ASIA Fellows Award (Asian Scholarship Foundation – Ford Foundation), Bangkok
1997/1998 British High Commissioner’s Chevening Award

2012 Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program (SEASREP) Postgraduate Fellowship for Ph.D. Research
2011 Chulalongkorn University’s Empowering Network for International Thai Studies (ENITS) Scholarship

2016 EmeraldLiterati Network Best Paper Award in International Political Economy

2013 Best Publication Award (Popular Writing) Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malayia (UKM)

2009 Michael Leifer Memorial Prize (Biennial) by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) for the best article published in any of the three ISEAS Journals – “The Essence of Hedging”