As a second-year student in senior high school he took part in the Westinghouse International Fair of Science and Technology with a project entitled "Genetic and morphological variation of Limnophila aromatica sensu lato (Scrophulariaceae) in Taiwan."
高二時他參加西屋公司贊助的國際科學展，題目就是台灣水生植物《紫蘇草的遺傳與型態變異》。