Selected Awards

iF Design Award (The Design Oscar) 

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iF Design Award

“The jury of 49 international experts evaluated designs from 4,615 products, communication designs and packaging entered by participants from 55 countries. In choosing its winners, the iF jury considered criteria such as design quality, finish, choice of materials, degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics and aspects of universal design, among other items.” The award-winning entry has been presented in their new permanent iF design exhibition Hamburg.

Selected Awards

Design Excellence, the World Design Guide:
“LightByte Interactive Installation: Animate the Inanimate”

Adobe Creative Thinker
– Four MIT scholars received this honor that profiles creative thinkers in STEM field.

MIT TechX Innovation Prize: “AnyConnect”

MIT Cisco Fellow (2013-2014)

2015 Red Dot Design Award
Core 77 Design Award: “Eone Timepiece”

Finalist, UIST Innovation Contest: “AnySwitch”

iF Design Award: “LightByte”
-iF Design Award is also known as the Design Oscar. Winners of the year include Apple Watch, in competition with several thousand international companies selected by an international jury of 55 countries.

Best Design of the Year 2014, London Design Museum
2014 DaVinci Awards

Tsinghua Hall of Fame, National Tsing Hua University Distinguished Alum

Bronze Medal, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Research Competition at SIGGRAPH: “MoveInk”

Semi-Finalist, MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition: “FlickInk”

SIGGRAPH Asia Finalist for Emerging Technologies Award: “FlickInk”

Finalist, MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: “Project Dot”

MIT Arts Scholar
– First female PhD Arts Scholar in MIT history

Best Paper Award Nominated at the Int’l Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems:
“MoSS: Mobile Smart Services”

Fellow, MIT Center for Future Banking

Mr. Lin Hsiung Chen Award – received from Lien Chan (連戰‭)‬ – Former award recipients include Siew Wan-Chang (蕭萬長),‭ ‬Lee I-Yang‭ (‬李逸洋‭),‬ Founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Lin Hwai-Min (林懷民)

ACM Research Competition Winner!

After a few competitive rounds of judging rounds, Pao’s research “Augmented Participatory Design” was selected a winner of ACM Student Research Competition (Graduate Track). The research was presented at SIGGRAPH 2013.