2000-2001: University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) doctoral dissertation award, $15,000.
2006: UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award.
2009: UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award.
2021: UIC College of Engineering Advising Award
a. “Development of a CO hot-spot screening model for toll highway facilities” the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Parker Award in January 2006 (co-authored with former MS student Dan Yu).
b. “Analysis of National County-level Heavy-duty Freight Truck Emissions”, Best Paper Award, 2nd prize, at the 2007 Transport Chicago Conference (co-authored with former MS student Joshua Auld).
c. “What neighborhood are you in? Empirical Findings of Relationships between Residential Location, Lifestyle, and Travel”, the 2007 ITE Illinois Section Best Paper Award (co-authored with former PhD student Liang Long).
d. “Communication Reduction for Floating Car Data based Traffic Information Systems”, Best paper award at the Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, GEOProcessing 2010, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, February 10-16, 2010 (co-authored with former PhD student Daniel Ayala and Dr. Ouri Wolfson).
e. "Modeling Commercial Vehicle Daily Tour Chaining", Best paper competition 3rd place at the TRB-SHRP2 Freight Modeling and Data Symposium, Washington DC, September 14-15, 2010 (co-authored with former PhD student Minyan Ruan and Dr. Kazuya Kawamura).
f. “Investigating the use of microhubs and crowdshipping for last mile delivery”, Outstanding Paper Award for Best Presentation at the 11th International Conference on City Logistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 12-14, 2019.
g. “A Crowd-shipping Courier’s Choice for Delivery Gigs,” Best Paper Award of the AT015 Committee on Freight Transportation Planning & Logistics, the 101st TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 9-13, 2022.
h. “Mitigating Battery Disruption of Electric Vehicles on Highways”, Best Paper Award of the 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Riverside, CA, February 25-28, 2024
“Incorporating Geographic/Spatial Sustainable Measurements in Transportation Planning and Operations”, Panelist for “NSF Sciences Behind Sustainability Quantification for Building & Infrastructure Design, Engineering and Construction Workshop” (S2QBIDEC), Fort Worth, Texas, Nov 7-9, 2012.
Panel on Alternative Fuels Development as a Green Product Trend in USA, at the Global Commercial Vehicle and Off-highway Vehicle Summit 2017, Chicago, IL, December 6th, 2017.
“Emerging Trends in Last-mile logistics: Where Do We Go from Here?”, Keynote speech at the Global Commercial Vehicle and Off-Highway Vehicle Summit 2017, Chicago, IL, December 6-8, 2017.
Panel on Trends for New Energy Commercial Vehicles and How It Impacts the Future of Efficiency and Emissions, at the Global Commercial Vehicle and Off-highway Vehicle Summit 2017, Chicago, IL, December 7th, 2017.
2018 Ethanol Summit of the Asia-Pacific, Panel on the Environmental Benefits of Blending Ethanol into Gasoline – Impacts on Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Five Major World Capitals, Minneapolis, MN, May 22, 2018.
Virtual Panel on Infrastructure, at the 25th Belle R. & Joseph H. Braun Memorial Symposium – Cutting through Academic Silos within the University of Illinois System to Achieve Sustainability, October 30, 2020.
Panel on The Future of Transportation in Chicago, at the Chicago Council of Science and Technology (C2ST), , Chicago, IL, May 3, 2021.
The Hill, Virtual panel on The Road to Zero Emission Trucks: Fleets and Shippers, September 15, 2021.
Virtual panel on Work-life Balance, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Special Emphasis Program, March 15, 2022.
The Climate Change Challenge (CCC) International Transportation Webinar 2022, co-sponsored by China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS), Transportation Research Board (TRB), International Road Federation (IRF), European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), and Chinse Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), September 27/29, 2022.
The Transportation Research Board annual meeting workshop on “Moving Together: Promises and Challenges in Co-Modal Passenger-Freight Transport”, Washington D.C., January 8, 2023.
Panel on Emerging Trends in e-Commerce and How They May Impact Your Community, at the 2023 APA-IL State Conference, Naperville, IL, September 11, 2023.
Workshop on the State of Science for Particulate Matter Health Effects, hosted by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), Arlington, VA, December 5-6, 2023.
The 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Panel host on shared mobility, Riverside, CA, February 26-28, 2024.
“Equitable and Sustainable Electrification of Freight Transportation”, Panel on Equity Bottlenecks in Sustainable Transportation Systems, at the Workshop on Envisioning Equitable Transitions to Sustainable Transportation Systems, A UIUC-UIC Collaborative Workshop Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Chicago, IL, May 16-17, 2024.
“Equitable and Sustainable Electrification of Freight Transportation: Challenges and Opportunities”, Panel on Transportation Infrastructure and Climate Change, at the 2024 Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) Global Symposium on Mobility Innovations, Ann Arbor, MI, May 21-22, 2024.
“Decarbonizing transportation systems: Challenges and Innovations”, Keynote speech at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese American Scientists and Engineers, Arlington Heights, IL, October 26, 2024.
Panel on Resilient and Sustainable Highway Infrastructure, at the Workshop on Data that Extends the Life-Cycle of Highway Infrastructure Assets, the 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.
Dan Yu: 2006 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Parker Award
Liang Long:
2006 Institute of Transportation Engineers-Illinois Section Best Paper Award
2006 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)-Illinois Section Student Scholarship Award
2006 and 2007 Transportation Group Scholarship Award of the Illinois Section of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Wenjing Pu:
Best paper award, at the 2008 Transport Chicago Annual Conference
2007 Freeman Fellowship, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2007 Transportation Group Scholarship, Illinois Section – American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Joshua Auld: Best Paper Award, 2nd prize, at the 2007 Transport Chicago Conference
Minyan Ruan:
2009 Transportation Group Scholarship, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2008 George Krambles Transportation Scholarship
2009 Helene M. Overly Memorial Award, WTS Chicago Chapter
Suriya Vallamsundar:
2011 Transportation Group Scholarship Award of the Illinois Section of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2013 UIC Chancellor’s Graduate Research Fellowship
Qin Chen:
2012 UIC Chancellor’s Graduate Research Fellowship
2012 George Krambles Transportation Scholarship
Sudheer Ballare
Outstanding Paper Award for Best Presentation at the 11th International Conference on City Logistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 12-14, 2019.
2019 ITE Illinois Section Graduate Student Scholarship.
Xi Cheng
College of Engineering Exceptional Research Promise Award, April 2024.
Senior student capstone design project titled “A Study of the Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Road Design.”
The team of Mahmoud Alsharbini, Abdulaziz Alahmadi, Mohammed Hameed, and Abdul Aziz Shaban won the best prototype award in Spring 2019.
This project focused on the effects of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on roadway design since there are new variables that designers need to consider. The team proposed an idea for intersections without traffic lights and for crosswalks to be pushed back away from the intersection to avoid any conflicts for vehicles and pedestrians. They also proposed to add a reserved lane for AVs on highways.