Awards

Dr. Yinhai Wang's Award:

1. Member, Washington State Academy of Sciences, Jul. 2023.
2. Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, Mar. 2023.
3. 2023 Francis C. Turner Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, Feb. 2023.
4. Best Paper Award, AED30 Information Systems and Technology Committee, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Jan. 2023.
5. Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jan. 2023.
6. Outstanding Paper Award, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI 2022), Smart Cities Conference, Oct. 2022.
7. PI of the WSDOT Truck Parking project that received the 2022 High Value Research Award from American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Aug. 2022.
8. Outstanding Technical Paper Award, Institute of Transportation Engineers Western District, July 2022.
9. Outstanding Faculty Award, College of Engineering, University of Washington, June 2021.
10. Best Paper Award, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, Oct. 2020.
11. Fellow, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Jan. 2020.
12. Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Dec. 2019.
13. Asian American Science and Engineering Innovation Award, Asian American Luminary Award (AALA) Committee, Sept. 15, 2019.
14. Best Paper Award, CICTP 2016, July 9, 2016.
15. Cheung Kong Scholar Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Jan. 2015.
16. Beijing Scientific Research Award (Third Tier): Transit Smart Card Data Mining and Application Technologies. Dec. 2014.
17. Outstanding Leadership Award, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), Aug. 2012.
18. Overseas Collaborative Research Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Jan. 2011 – Dec. 2012.
19. PTV AG Scientific Award 2009, Third Place (with Guohui Zhang, a PhD student of mine), Dynamic Tolling Simulation Using External Module, October 2009, PTV AG, Germany.
20. Thomas and Marilyn Nielson Endowed Funds in Engineering Professorship, November 2006 – October 2011, University of Washington.
21. Best Paper Award for 2003, Journal of Transportation Engineering, March 2004, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
22. Excellent Presentation Award, 51st Annual Conference of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, September 1996, Japan Society of Civil Engineers.
23. Japanese Government Scholarship, October 1995 – September 1998, Ministry of Science and Education, Japan.
24. Overseas Research Scholarship, April 1995, Department of Education and Employment, UK.
25. Distinguished Teaching Award for Young Faculty, January 1994, Tsinghua University, China.
26. Outstanding College Graduates Award, August 1989, China Civil Engineering Society, China.
27. Excellent Student Medal, September 1988, Tsinghua University, China.

2023 (13 Awards)

1. Wei Sun, Yakama Nation (partnered with UW STAR Lab and AIWaysion). Build a Better Mousetrap 2023 Best All Around Award, by FHWA LTAP/TTAP. Jul 2023
2. Wei Sun, Yakama Nation (partnered with UW STAR Lab and AIWaysion). Build a Better Mousetrap 2023 Innovative Project Award, by FHWA LTAP/TTAP. Jul 2023
3. Wei Sun. FY23 U.S. DOT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award, by USDOT. Jul 2023
4. Peter Yu. Emerging Leaders in Engineering Scholarship, by UW College of Engineering. Jul 2023
5. Peter Yu. Hans M. & Billie A. Skov Scholarship in Civil Engineering, by UW CEE. Jul 2023
6. Peter Yu. Richard Williamson Jones Scholarship, by ASCE Seattle Section. Jul 2023
7. Peter Yu. Washington Asphalt Pavement Association Scholarship, by Washington Asphalt Pavement Association (WAPA). Jun 2023
8. Peter Yu. Haley & Aldrich Engineering Scholarship, by Puget Sound Engineering and Scholarship Fund (PSE and SSF). May 2023
9. Peter Yu. Barry Goldwater Scholarship, by Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. March 2023
10. Peter Yu. Astronaut Scholarship Nominee, by Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium. March 2023
11. Peter Yu. HASCE Collegiate New Face of Civil Engineering Honoree. Feb 2023
12. Hao Yang. Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award, Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans). Jan 2023.
13. Meixin Zhu. Best Dissertation Award, by TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50). Jan 2023.

2022 (18 Awards)

1. Cole Kopca. Coral Sales Company/Douglas P. Daniels Scholarship. Nov 2022.
2. Ruimin Ke, Chenxi Liu, Hao (Frank) Yang, Dr. Wei Sun, Dr. Yinhai Wang. Outstanding Paper Award by 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (IEEE DTPI 2022) for paper Real-Time Traffic and Road Surveillance with Parallel Edge Intelligence. Nov 2022.
3. Wei Sun. Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans). Oct 2022.
4. Peter Yu. Chevron SASE Scholarship, by Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE). Oct 2022.
5. Chenxi Liu. Winner in 2022 PacTrans Student Conference Poster Competition. Oct 2022.
6. Hao Yang. High-Value Research Award -- Real-Time Truck Parking Information Integration, Visualization, and Prediction, by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Aug 2022.
7. Wei Sun. FY22 U.S. DOT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award, by USDOT. Jul 2022.
8. Ziyuan Pu, Zhiyong Cui, Jinjun Tang, Shuo Wang, Yinhai Wang , and Yinhai Wang. Outstanding Technical Paper Award, by ITE Western District. Jul 2022.
9. Peter Yu. Hans M. & Billie A. Skov Scholarship in Civil Engineering, UW CEE. Jul 2022.
10. Peter Yu. Luther E. Gregory Scholarship, UW CEE. Jul 2022.
11. Peter Yu. R. H. Thomson Memorial Scholarship, by ASCE Seattle Section. Jun 2022.
12. Shuyi Yin. Washington State Section ITE Graduate Scholarship. May 2022.
13. Peter Yu. ITE Western District Best Student Paper Award, by ITE Western District. Apr 2022.
14. Meixin Zhu. Transportation Statistics Interest Group (TSIG) Student Paper Award. Jan 2022.
15. Chenxi Liu, Hao Yang, Meixin Zhu, Shuyi Yin, Yifan Zhuang, Zhiyong Cui. 2nd place in Transportation Forecasting Competition (TRANSFOR22). (See Event website | Blog by Seoul Robotics | Blog by Ouster). Jan 2022.
16. Zhiyong Cui. Honorable Mention in AED50 2021 Best Dissertation Competition for DEEPLEARNING FOR SHORT-TERM NETWORK-WIDE ROAD TRAFFIC FORECASTING. Jan 2022.
17. Peter Yu. Best Graduate Student Poster Award for poster "Operational Advantages of the Protected Overlapped Pedestrian Intersection Design" by TRB AKD10. Jan 2022.
18. Ruimin Ke. Best Dissertation Award by Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA). Jan 2022.

2021 (15 Awards)

1. Sam Ricord. Coral Sales Company/Douglas P. Daniels Scholarship. Dec 2021.
2. Shuyi Yin. First Place in Poster Competition of 2021 PacTrans Student Transportation Conference. Oct 2021.
3. Peter Yu. Second Place in Poster Competition of 2021 PacTrans Student Transportation Conference. Oct 2021.
4. Zhiyong Cui. IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award (First Prize). (See Award Website | Dissertation Summary | Dissertation ). Sep 2021.
5. Sam Ricord. Winner of the Urban Freight Lab EP1 Design Competition. Jul 2021.
6. Peter Yu. PacTrans Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans). Jun 2021.
7. Cole Kopca. ASCE Transportation and Development Institute Outstanding Younger Member Award by June 2021.
8. Cole Kopca. Washington State Section ITE Graduate Scholarship. May 2021.
9. Peter Yu. Washington State Section ITE Undergraduate Scholarship. May 2021.
10. Iman Haji. Washington State Section ITE Undergraduate Scholarship. May 2021.
11. Iman Haji. Washington Asphalt and Pavement Association Scholarship. May 2021.
12. Iman Haji. PacTrans Graduate Fellowship. Apr 2021.
13. Meixin Zhu. Winning Award in 2021 Digital China Innovation Contest with "Smart Transportation-Collision Detection based on Big Data of Internet of Vehicles". Apr 2021.
14. Iman Haji. Coral Highway Safety Transportation Scholarship. Mar 2021.
15. Iman Haji. Women's Transportation Seminar Scholarship. Mar 2021.

2020 (15 Awards)

2019 (4 Awards)

1. Ziyuan Pu. Third Prize in PacTrans Annual Conference Poster Competition. Oct 2019.
2. Mayuree Binjolkar. William A. Bulley Endowed Fellowship. Jun 2019.
3. Hao Yang. Champion of Track 1 and Runner-up of Track 2 and Track 3 in the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) AI City Challenge. Jun 2019.
4. Zhiyong Cui. Outstanding Award in Transportation Forecasting Competition (TRANSFOR19) Jan 2019.

2018 (4 Awards)

1. Tianyi Li. Mt. Rainier Scholarship, Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) Washington State Section. Oct 2018.
2. Ziyuan Pu. Safety Prize, International Traffic Challenge Competition, NPRA. Jun 2018.
3. Hao Yang, Chenxi Liu, Zhiyong Cui, Ruimin Ke, Yunyi Liang. Outstanding Award in the 3rd DI-TECH Transportation Algorithm Competition. Jun 2018.
4. Ziyuan Pu. Editor's Choice Paper Award by Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: System. 2018.

2017 (1 Awards)

1. Mayuree Binjolkar. Data Science for Social Good Summer Research Fellowship. Jun 2017.

2016 (1 Awards)

1. Zhiyong Cui. High Value Research Project Award by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (ASSHTO) for Digital Roadway Interactive Visualization and Evaluation Network (Version II). 2016.

2015 (1 Awards)

1. Wenbo Zhu and the UW team. Traffic Bowl 2015 - Oregon ITE, ITE Oregon State Section. Nov 2015.

2014 (1 Awards)

1. Wenbo Zhu. Washignton State ITE Student Night Award by ITE Washington State Section. May 2014.

2013 (2 Awards)

1. Cathy Liu. 2nd Best Paper Award for the 2013 TRF Student Paper Contest by Transportation Research Forum. Feb 2013.
2. Cathy Liu. WTS Helene M. Overly Memorial Graduate Scholarship by Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS). Jan 2013.

2012 (5 Awards)

1. Runze Yu. Eno Fellow by Eno Transportation Foundation. Jun 2012.
2. Cathy Liu. ITE Daniel B Fambro Student Paper Award by ITE Western District. Jun 2012.
3. Cathy Liu. ITE Western District Outstanding Graduate Student Award by ITE Western District. Jun 2012.
4. Cathy Liu. Washington ITE Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship by ITE Washington State Section. Jun 2012.
5. Cathy Liu. Western ITE Best Student Paper Award, ITE Western District. May 2012.

before 2011 (7 Awards)

1. Cathy Liu. Boeing Academic Achievement Awards by Boeing/GTTL. Jun 2011.
2. Runze Yu. Western ITE Best Student Paper Award by ITE Western District. May 2011.
3. Runze Yu. Washington ITE Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship by ITE Washington State Section May 2011.
4. Yao-Jan Wu. Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award, TransNow, Region X UTC. Jan 2011.
5. Yao-Jan Wu. Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award, TransNow, Region X UTC. Jan 2011.
6. Xiaolei Ma. Boeing Academic Achievement Awards by Boeing/GTTL. May 2010.
7. Yao-Jan Wu. Washington ITE Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship by ITE Washington State Section. May 2008.