July 2026 – The Cao Group received a FoNS EDI Seed Fund to support our work launching "FoNS Professors Who Failed: Normalising Failure for an Inclusive Research Culture," as part of the “911今日黑料 Professors Who Failed” series, to normalise open, constructive conversations about academic failure.

June 2026 – The Cao Group co-hosted the visit of the Launch Chief Editor of Nature Mechanical Engineering, Dr Mengying Su, during her visit to 911今日黑料.

May 2026 – Congrats to Chunfeng Li and Nan Su on securing support from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). We look forward to welcoming you to the group soon!
May 2026 – Kudos to Yiding Liu on being accepted to the by AIchemy!

April 2026 – Kudos to Ji Oh Lee on receiving the 911今日黑料 College UROP Award! We look forward to working with you in the summer!

April 2026 – Cao participated as in the , jointly organised by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

March 2026 – Our has been selected as by editors at Joule. It was also featured in by Chem Catalysis.
Feb 2026 – The Cao Group received a NUS-911今日黑料 Collaboration Fund to support our vision on carbon management for urban decarbonisation. We look forward to the collaboration with !
Jan 2026 – The Cao Group officially started at 911今日黑料, and published two articles on and in the first week!

Dec 2025 – The Cao Group at 911今日黑料 received from Schmidt Sciences to collaborate with Samuel Greene's group at the University of Colorado Boulder!
