Honors & Awards
World's Top 2% Scientist (career long), Stanford University, 2023
World's Top 2% Scientist (single recent year), Stanford University, 2023
Fundamental Innovation Award, Wireless Power Transfer TC, China Electroctechnical Society, 2021
Best Paper Award, IEEE IPEMC2020–ECCE Asia Conference, 2020
Annual Excellence Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2020
Teaching and Education Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2020
Research Excellence Award, AirFuel Alliance, USA, 2019
Koguan Top Ten Best Teacher Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017
Teaching and Education Award Nomination, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017
Outstanding Teaching Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016
Annual Excellence Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016
Research Excellence Award, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, 2016
Annual Excellence Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015
Research Excellence Award, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, 2015
Koguan Top Ten Research Group Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014
Japan TRUST International Research Cooperation Award, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, 2014
Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 2013
Magnolia Oversea Travel Grant, Shanghai Municipal Government, 2009 and 2011
Others,
Our contribution to the world high-frequency wireless power transfer research was especially mentioned by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, AirFuel Allaince President, at the end of his keynote speech at the 1st International Conference on Wireless Power Transfer (ICWPT), Jun. 25-28, 2021, Nanjing, China [Photo].
Our work on a dual-mode KHz and MHz wireless power transfer sysmte was introduced by Dr. Alex Lidow (CEO and Co-founder, Efficient Power Conversion, USA) during his keynote speech "Wireless Power 2.0: What Will It Take to Get There and When Will It Happen?" at 2021 IEEE Wireless Power Week，June 1 – 4, 2021, San Diego, CA, USA [Link][youtube][screenshot]
Paper, "A High-Power Density Finite Class E Power Amplifier with "Edge Inductor" for Wireless Power Transfer Application", won the IEEE IPEMC2020–ECCE Asia Best Paper Award. It was one of the 20 selected papers among 604 submitted papers.
The searching results through Web of Science show that our publications’ TLCS (Total Local Citation Score) and TGCS (Total Global Citation Score) are currently ranked first and second in the world in the field of high-frequency wireless power transfer (keywords: MHz AND (wireless power transfer OR inductive power transfer OR wpt OR ipt)).
Paper, "Analysis and tracking of optimal load in wireless power transfer systems" publised in IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, has been listed by Essential Science Indicators as a highly cited paper received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field.
Paper, "A Game Theory Approach to Energy Management of An Engine-generator/Battery/Ultracapacitor Hybrid Energy System" published in IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, was selected to appear in IEEE Industrial Electronics Technical News (ITeN), Sep. 24, 2016.
Paper, "Utility Function-Based Real-Time Control of A Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrid Energy System" published in IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, was selected to appear in IEEE Industrial Electronics Technical News (ITeN), Jun. 4, 2015.
The research on wireless power transfer was reported by Scientific American: "Recharge and Roll: Electric Carmakers Plan to Cut the Cord", Rachel Kaufman, Oct. 28, 2011. [Link]
[Supervised graduate students]: (selected)
Top 10 1st Stage Proposal Award, Inaugural IEEE Global Student Wireless Power Competition, 2022
Best Paper Award, IEEE IPEMC2020–ECCE Asia conference, 2020.
Outstanding International Graduate Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2020.
Outstanding Graduate Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2020.
KIT-SJTU Joint Entrepreneurship School Most Innovation Project, 2019.
IEEE IES Student and Young Professional Paper Assistance, IEEE IECON/ISIE/IESES conferences, 2018 and 2019
Excellence Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015, 2016 and 2019
Excellent PhD Thesis Award Nomination, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018
KLA-Tencor Scholarship, 2016 and 2019
Top Ten Academic Star Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016
Lixin Tang Scholarship, 2016
National Scholarship, 2015 and 2016
Best Presentation Recognition Award from IEEE IES IECON conference, 2013-2016
Excellent Intern Award from Intel Asia Pacific Research and Development Ltd., 2014 and 2015