Cheung Kong Scholars Award, China Ministry of Education (2002-2007)

Topsun Award for Excellent Papers in Science, Peking University (2003)

Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003)

Key member of Group Winners on Jehol Biota Research

Peking University Young Fuqing-Wang Yangyuan Award (2011)

Top ten Achievements in Science and technology of the year 2003 in Universities of China (2003)

Discovery 2001 Special Issue: The Year in Science 100 top science stories of 2001 (2001)

Childs Frick Fellowships, American Museum of Natural History (1995-1998)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (NSERC grant funds) (1992-1995)

Graduate Research Fellowship (1990-1992)

Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Alberta

Graduate Teaching Assistantship (1986-1990)

Department of Zoology, University of Alberta

Graduate Research Assistantship (1985-1986)

Department of Zoology, University of Alberta

Graduate Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1978-1981)

Introduction to Systematics Peking University Spring, yearly since 2003

Evolution of Vertebrates Peking University Spring, yearly since 2005

Life in the History of Earth Peking University Spring, yearly since 2005

Life in the History of Earth Peking University Spring, yearly since 2005

From DNA to Diversity Peking University Spring, 2010

Introduction to Evolution Peking University Spring, 2009

Vertebrate Comparative Anatomy University of Alberta Summer 1994

Vertebrate Paleontology (Guest Lectures) China University of Geoscience 2002

Evolutionary Biology (Guest Lectures) Capital Normal University 2004-2005

Biodiversity and Evolution Chengdu Institute of Biology Winter 2013

Editorial Board, Vertebrata PalAsiatica (2010--Present)

Editorial Board, Geological Frontiers, China University of Geosciences (2005--Present)

Editorial Board, Dataset Papers in Science (anatomy), Hindawi Publ. Corp. (2012—Present)

Reviewer, Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Palaeontology, Paleobiology, Historical Biology, Journal of Paleontology, Cretaceous Research, Acta Geologica Sinica,

Vice Chair, Key Laboratory of Evolution of Past and Environment in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Education of China 2009—present

NSFC Earth Science Review Panel 2008--2009, 2006--2008, 2002--2006

NSFC Working Panel of Biogeoscience Program (2005--2006)

Academic Committee, National Key Laboratory of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, NIGP (2006--2011)

Academic Committee, School of Earth and Space Sciences, PKU (2003--Present)

NSF-NSFC scientific workshop on "Critical Transitions in History of Life" (2005, 2006)

NSF-NSFC scientific workshop on "the rise of modern biodiversity" (2015)

Xiangshan Science Conferences 498: An integrative approach to extracting information from fossils and extant organism (Beijing, 2014)

NSFC (grant #40772016): Fossil, morphology, molecules: combined analyses of salamander phylogeny. RMB 1000,000 (PI: Gao)

NSFC (grant # 40772007): Miocene anurans from Shanwang, Shandong: Systematics and ecologic adaptations. RMB 500,000 2011-2013 (PI: Gao)

NSFC (grant #40532008): Origin and Evolution of Urodeles: phylogenetic, developmental and biogeographic studies based on fossils from the Mesozoic of China. RMB 1,500,000 2006-2009 (PI: Gao)

NSFC (grant # 40772009): Ecomorphic diversification and phylogenetic relationships of Early Cretaceous choristoderes from China. RMB 420,000 2008-2010 (PI: Gao)

NSFC (grant #40272006): Systematic diversification of Late Mesozoic urodeles in Hebei and Jilin Province. RMB ￥300,000 2003-2005 (PI: Gao)

NSFC: Study of early amphibian fossils from northern China. RMB 17,000 2003 (PI: Gao)

Peking University Cheung Kong Scholars starting grant: Study of early evolution of amphibians. RMB 1,500,000 2002-2005 (PI: Gao)

China Ministry of Education: Study of the evolution of Mesozoic urodeles in northern Hebei and western Liaoning areas. RMB 70,000 (PI: Gao)

China Ministry of Education: Collaborative research on Triassic amphibians from Gansu. RMB 30,000 2006 (PI: Gao)

China Ministry of Education: Systematic study of early amphibians from China. RMB 35,000 2004 (PI: Gao)

China Ministry of Education: Study of Paleocene lizard fossils from western Canada. RMB 40,000 2003 (PI: Gao)

NSF (EAR-0126451): Early salamanders from northern China. $175,000 (Co-PIs: Shubin and Gao)

NSF (DEB-9806811): Systematic study of Late Cretaceous lizards from the Gobi Desert. $141,487 including $41,737 cost share-AMNH Frick Fund (PI: Gao).

National Geographic Society (grant 7020-01): Field collection of Juro-Cretaceous salamanders from northern China. $12,250 2001 (PI: Gao)

National Geographic Society (grant 6565-99): Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China. $11,660 1999 (PI: Gao)

National Geographic Society (grant 6311-98): Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China. $12,760

1998 (PI: Gao)

National Geographic Society (grant 5818-96): Late Jurassic salamanders from Fengshan Basin, Hebei Province, China. $6,895 1996 (PI: Gao)

Frick Research Fund (1996-1997), American Museum of Natural History: Systematic study of Cretaceous lizards from the Gobi Desert. $6,800 (PI: Gao).

American Museum of Natural History, Frick Research Fund: Systematic study of Cretaceous lizards from the Gobi Desert. $4,200 1995-1996 (PI: Gao)

1. Gao, K-Q. and N. H. Shubin. 2003. Earliest known crown-group salamanders. Nature 422: 424-428.

2. Gao, K-Q. and N. H. Shubin. 2001. Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China. Nature 410: 574-577.

3. Gao, K-Q. and N. H. Shubin. 2012. First Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

4. Ji, Q., M.A. Norell, K. Gao, C. Yuan, Y. Zhao, and L. Wang. 2002. Modern feathers on a non-avian dinosaur. Nature 416: 36-37.

5. Ji, Q., M. A. Norell, K-Q. Gao, S. Ji, and D. Ren. 2001. The distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur. Nature 410: 1084-1088.

6. Li, Q., J. A. Clarke, K-Q. Gao, C-F. Zhou, Q. Meng, D. Li, L. D’Alba, M. D. Shawkey. 2014. Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs. Nature 507: 350-354.

7. Li, Q., K-Q. Gao, J. Vinther, M.D. Shawkey, J.A. Clarke, L. D’Alba, Q. Meng, D.E.G. Briggs, R.O. Prum. 2010. Plumage color patterns of an extinct dinosaur. Science 327: 1369-1372.

8. Li, Q., K-Q. Gao, Q. Meng, J. A. Clarke, M. D. Shawkey, L. D’Alba, R. Pei, M. Ellison, M. A. Norell, J. Vinther. 2011. A new reconstruction of Microraptor and the evolution of iridescent plumage. Science 335: 1215-1219.

9. Li, P-P, K-Q. Gao, L-H. Hou, X. Xu. 2007. A gliding lizard from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104 (13): 5507-5509.

10. Xu, G-H., L-J. Zhao, K-Q. Gao, F-X. Wu. 2012. A new stem-neopterygian fish from the Middle Triassic of China shows the earliest over-water gliding strategy pf the vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 280 (1750): doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2261.

11. Hou, L-H., P-P. Li, D. Ksepka, K-Q. Gao and M. Norell. 2010. Implications of flexible-shelled eggs in a Cretaceous choristoderan reptile. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 277: 1235-1239.

12. Li, D. M. A. Norell, K-Q. Gao, N. D. Smith, P. J. Makovicky. 2010. A longirostrine tyrannosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 277: 183-190.

13. Makovicky, P. J., D. Li, K-Q. Gao, M. Lewin, G. M. Erickson, M. A. Norell. 2010. A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 277: 191-198.

14. Xu, G-H. and K-Q. Gao. 2011. A new scanilepiform from the Lower Tirassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-telostean Actinopterygii. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 595-612.

15. Gao, K-Q., R. C. Fox, C-F Zhou, and D. Li. 2010. A new non-mammalian eucynodont (Synapsida: Therapsida) from the Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and its biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications. American Museum Novitates 3685: 1-25.

16. Gao, K-Q., Q. Li, M. Wei, H. Pak, and I. Pak. 2009. Early Cretaceous birds and pterosaurs from the Sinuiju Series, and geographic extension of the Jehol Biota into the Korean Peninsula. Journal of Paleontological Society of Korea 25: 57-61.

17. Gao, K-Q. and D. Ksepka. 2008. Osteology and taxonomic revision of Hyphalosaurus (Diapsida: Choristodera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. Journal of Anatomy 212: 747-768.

18. Gao, K.-Q. and D. Ren. 2006. Radiometric dating of ignimbrite from Inner Mongolia provides no indication of a post-Middle Jurassic age for Daohugou beds. Acta Geologica Sinica 80: 42-45.

19. Gao, K.-Q. and R. C. Fox. 2005. A new choristodere (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of Monjurosuchidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 427-444.

20. Gao, K.-Q. and Y.-L. Sun. 2002. Is the PhyloCode better than Linnean System?—New development and debate on biological nomenclatural issues. Chinese Science Bulletin 48: 308-312.

21. Gao, K.-Q. and Y. Wang. 2001. Mesozoic anurans from Liaoning Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of archaeobatrachian anuran clades. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21: 460-476.

22. Gao, K. and M. A. Norell. 2000. Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblage from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History 249: 1-118. (Monograph)

23. Gao, K. S. E. Evans, Q. Ji, M. A. Norell, and S. Ji. 2000. Exceptional fossil material of a semi-aquatic reptile from China: the resolution of an enigma. Rapid Communication Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20: 417-421.

24. Gao, K. and R. C. Fox. 1998. New choristoderes (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Cretaceous and Palaeocene, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, and phylogenetic relationships of Choristodera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 124: 303-353.

25. Gao, K. and R. C. Fox. 1996. Taxonomy and Evolution of Late Cretaceous Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from Western Canada. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 33: 1-107. (Monograph)