As a scholar, he is a world-renowned authority in the field of heat transfer technology who has won numerous awards and fellowships and published more than 250 papers in learned journals. At the same time, he is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the R.O.C. 's Academia Sinica.
在學術成就上，他是國際知名的熱物理權威，曾在世界知名學術期刊上發表二百餘篇論文，獲得許多研究獎項；同時也是美國工程科學院，及我國中央研究院院士。