Awards
My selected awards, funding, honors, and scholarships received throughout my academic career
Selected Awards & Fundings & Honors
Awards
- Rising Star in EECS, EECS department at MIT (70 out of 327, Top 21%) - Oct. 2025
- Eno Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation (Among 17 selected graduate students nationwide) - June 2025
- Athena Award for Graduate Student Leadership, EDGE in Tech (sole winner) - May 2025
- Runner-up Winner, 2025 Berkeley Grad Slam (Campus-wide sole winner) - April 2025
- NSF CPS Rising Star, 2025 CPS Rising Stars Workshop (30 out of 174, Top 17%) - Mar. 2025
- Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering, ME department at CMU (Among 30 selected attendees nationwide) - Oct. 2024
- IEEE ITSC 2024 Institutional Lead Award - CIRCLES Consortium - Sept. 2024
- Evergreen Award for Undergraduate Researcher Mentoring, EECS department at UC Berkeley - May 2024
- Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence, Oski Student Leadership Award (Campus-wide sole awardee) - April 2024
- First-place Winner, 2023 INFORMS Poster Competition (4 out of 200, Top 2%) - Oct. 2023
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley (Top 10%) - March 2022
Scholarships
- Rodney E. Slater Scholarship, Eno Center for Transportation - June 2025
- Asian American Architects and Engineers Foundation (AAa/e) Graduate Scholarship (First Place), AAa/e - Oct. 2024
- ITS California and California Transportation Foundation Scholarship, ITSCA & CTF - Aug. 2023
- NSF Student Travel Grant, CPS-IoT Week U.S. NSF - March 2023
- Chinese National Scholarship (Top 1%), Chinese Ministry of Education - Sept. 2017
Research Fundings
- Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR) Graduate Grant ($12k), BAIR - May 2024
- Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) Graduate Research Grant ($10k), H2H8 - July 2023
- Student Research Grant ($15k), CEE Department UC Berkeley - June 2022
Other Awards & Honors
Other Awards
- Honorable Mention, 2023 OR/MS Tomorrow Mini-poster Competition (PhD Category) - Nov. 2023
- Best Design Presentation, 2018 BMW Next Mobility Youth Camp - Aug. 2018
- Second Prize, 12th National Transportation Technology Competition (Team Leader, Rank: 9/302) - May 2017
- First Prize, Transportation Technology Competition at Tongji University (Team Leader, Rank: 2/59) - April 2017
- Meritorious Winner, US Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Team Leader, Top 7%) - April 2017
- Second Prize, National English Competition for College Students - May 2017
- Second Prize, China Mathematical Olympiad (Provincial Level) - Oct. 2013
- Second Prize, China Physics Olympiad (Provincial Level) - Oct. 2013
Other Scholarships
- Professional Development Award, UC Berkeley - Aug. 2024 & Sep. 2025
- Department Award - EECS, UC Berkeley - 2023
- Block Grant Award - CEE, UC Berkeley - 2019 - 2023
- Summer Department Award - ITS, UC Berkeley - May 2021
- Runner-up “Tingya” Outstanding Student Scholarship Competition, Tongji University - May 2017