Recently, his important awards include 2015 and 2018 Outstanding Research Award Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan , 2015 Highly Cited Paper Award Applied Energy, Elsevier , 2017 Outstanding Engineering Professor Award Chinese Institute of Engineers , 2019 Bioresource Technology Award for Highly Cited Review Article, and 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher Awards.
His research topics include hydrogen energy, bioenergy, clean energy, carbon capture, and atmospheric science.
His works received best paper awards from a premier conference i.