Professor Shen is well recognized by international community in his research fields. He served as Chairman or Co-Chairman to organize 10 international conferences in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Europe. He delivered over 150 lectures as keynote speakers, plenary speakers or invited speakers in international conferences. As Principal Investigator, he successfully bided 21 external highly competitive grants including RGC General Research Fund, Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong, HMRF grant, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. As Co- Principal Investigator, he was awarded by the grant of Areas of Excellence Scheme 2016/17, Research Grants Council. His studies were also supported by many other donations, contract research projects and internal grants.