- 2024 NTU LEAD2 Individual Leadership Award (Cohort #3)
- 2023 Special Recognition Award, Singapore Ministry of Communication and Information (in recognition of public service to the Programme Advisory Committee for English Programmes)
- 2022 Fellow, International Communication Association Class of 2022
- 2021 Best Published Article of the Year Award (First Place) (with Ou), Communicating Science, Health, Environment, & Risks Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference, 2022
- Top Faculty Paper Award (with Ou), Information Systems Division, International Communication Annual Conference, 2021
- ASCoR (Amsterdam School of Communication Research) McQuail Award (with Lee & Lwin), a prestigious award given annually to the best article advancing communication theory published in an international journal in the previous 2 years, 2019
- Best Published Article Award (3rd Place) (with Looi, Leong, & Chuah), Communicating Science, Health, Environment, & Risks Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference, 2019
- Top Faculty Paper Award (1st Place) (with Chen, Lwin, & Fu), Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference, 2019
- Top Teaching Award (2nd Place), Communicating Science, Health, Environment, & Risks Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference, 2019
- Top Published Article of the Year Award (1st placed) (with Chen & Lwin), Mass Communication & Society Division, AEJMC 2019
- ComSHER Teaching Award (Second place), AEJMC 2019
- Best Published Article Award (with Lee & Lwin), International Communication Association Annual Conference, Children, Adolescents and Media Division, 2019
- Top URECA (Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus) poster winner (Arts and Humanities category) (with Juline Lew), 2019
- Top URECA (Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus) poster winner (Social Sciences category) (with Leow Jing Xuan), 2019
- Recipient of AEJMC’s Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, 2018
- AEJMC ComSHER Division, Top Published Article of the Year Award (1st Place) – 2018
- Recipient of “Women in Education Leadership Award” at the 9th Asia’s Education Excellence Awards organised by CMO Asia, Singapore – 2018
- NTU 15-Year Long Service Award – 2018
- Best Presentation Award (with Alisius Leong, Jiemin Looi, & Agnes Chuah), ICNESE 2017 International Conference on Nuclear Energy Systems Engineering – 2017
- Highly Commended Paper in Sociology & Social Policy Category (with Lim Cui Min), The Undergraduate Awards, Dublin Ireland – 2017
- ICA Environmental Communication Division, Top Faculty Paper – 2016
- 21st Annual International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies, Hong Kong, Outstanding Paper Award (Second Prize) – 2015
- Top 2 most accessed article in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research – 2014
- AEJMC ComSHER Division, Article of the Year Award (Second Place) – 2013
- AEJMC ComSHER Division, Top Faculty Paper (Second Place) – 2013
- NTU Ten-Year Long Service Award – 2013
- AEJMC ComSHER Division, Top Faculty Paper (First Place) – 2010
- ICA Mass Communication Division, Top Faculty Paper (Second Place) – 2010
- School of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduate Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA – Fall 2008/09
- Robert F. & Jean E. Holtz Center Graduate Student Research Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA – 2007, 2008
- AEJMC Communication Theory & Methodology Division, Top Four Student Paper – 2005
- Nanyang Technological University Senior Tutor Scholarship (Overseas Postgraduate Studies) – 2004-2008
- First Class Honors, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – 2002
- ACNielsen Gold Medal, Top Student Award in Communication Research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – 200
- Simon and Schuster Book Prize, Top Student Award in Communication Research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – 2001
- Hainan Hwee Kuan Undergraduate Scholarship, Singapore – 1998-2001
- Tan Chin Tuan Student Exchange Scholarship (at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Singapore – 2001
- Chinese Language Journalism Fund Overseas Scholarship, Singapore – 2001
- Dean’s List, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02