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, 150), 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