In the years since, Weikai has received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America in 2018, being made a Fellow of the Agronomy Society of America in 2019, and being named Outstanding Associate Editor by the journal “Crop Science” in 2022.

Weikai initiated the “ENCORE” trials in 2013, with Dr. Jennifer Mitchell Fetch (AAFC Winnipeg/Brandon), Dr. Aaron Beattie (University of Saskatchewan), and Dr. Mike McMullen (North Dakota State University), to strengthen collaboration among breeding programs and to bridge breeding and genomics. More recently, he has also been working with Drs. Nick Tinker and Wubishet Bekele to assess the utility of using genomic selection methods in early generation oat breeding.