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Selected Awards and Honors |
Award & Honor
• Teaching ExcellenceAppreciation Award,
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, HKUST, 2022
• Francis C. Turner Award, American Society of
Civil Engineers, 2021
• Ranked 7th among
the word’s 447 top 2% most-cited scientists out of the 21274 scholars in the
discipline of Transportation and Logistics. The World’s Top 2% Scientists List
created by Stanford University together with the publishing house Elsevier and
SciTech Strategies, January 2021
• Frank M.
Masters Transportation Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers,
2020
• Ranked 1st
among the top 50 leading authors in Transportation Research (TR), “Fifty years
of Transportation Research journals: A bibliometric overview”, Transportation
Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 120, February 2019, Pages 188-223
(authors: N.M. Modak, J.M. Merigo,
R. Webe, F. Manzor, J. de
D. Ortuzar)
• Guest Chair
Professor of Beijing Jiaotong University, 2018 – 2022
• “The tradable
credit scheme for network mobility management” proposed by Yang and Wang
(published in “Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 45(3), 580-594,
2011”) was selected to be one of the top ten hottest areas in engineering
management (Global Engineering Focuses 2017, published by China Academy of Engineering)《全球工程焦点2017》(中国工程院)
• Global
Highly Cited Researcher in Civil Engineering (全球土木工程高被引学者, 共150名),
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), academic subjects, by Shanghai
Jiao Tong University and Elsevier, 2016
• Guest Chair
Professor of Tsinghua University, 2013 – 2018
• Chang Jiang
Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education of PR China (Host University: Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), 2012 - 2015
• School of
Engineering Research Excellence Award, HKUST, 2012
• National
Natural Science Award of China (中华人民共和国国家自然科学奖二等奖),
2011
• National
Outstanding Young Investigator Award, National Natural Science Foundation of
China, 2004
• JSCE Award
for the most outstanding paper in the year, 1991