Honors and Awards

Listed among the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings 2025 of “Logistics & Transportation” specialty in both “Single year 2024” and “Career” categories, September 2025.
Excellent Paper Award, The 4th Digital Transportation and Smart Mobility Academic Forum, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China, September 2025.
Listed among the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings 2024 of “Logistics & Transportation” specialty in both “Single year 2023” and “Career” categories, September 2024.
Inductee, Inaugural UNC Charlotte Million Dollar Research Circle, March 2024.
Distinguished Scholar, William States Lee College of Engineering (LCoEN), UNC Charlotte, April 2023.
Listed among the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings 2022 of “Logistics & Transportation” specialty in single year 2021, October 2022.
Outstanding Associate Editor Award, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, January 2022.
Most Cited Article for the Year 2020 Award, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, January 2021.
Best Area Editor Award, Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Infrastructure, The 19th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP2019), July 2019.
Excellent Paper Award, 2018 World Transport Convention, 2018.
College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award Nominee, UNC Charlotte, April 2016.
University Research Award, University of Texas at Tyler, April 2012.
Franz Edelman Award Nominee for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), November 2011.
Professional Engineer (Registration No. 103500), Texas, June 2009.
ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Teaching Fellow, 2007.
Best Civil Engineering Professor of the Year, University of Texas at Tyler, 2006-2007.
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America, October 2007, 2010.
SAS Certified Based and Advanced Programmer, November 2004.
Robert Herman Award Nominee for the Southwest University Transportation Center (SWUTC) in U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), January 2004.

Student Awards

Chengying Hua, Cyrus Painter Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill, NC, November, 2023
Shaojie Liu, Outstanding Reviewer Award, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, January 2023
Paul D. Cribbins Cup, Outstanding ITE Student Chapter, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 17, 2022
Hengcong Guo, Don Blackburn Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November, 2022
Yang Zhao, Roy D. Williams Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November, 2022
Bo Qiu, USDOT Student of the Year Award, CAMMSE UTC, Washington DC, January 8, 2022
Yang Zhao, Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Charlotte Metro Chapter Mary N. Clayton Honorary Scholarship, January, 2022
Paul D. Cribbins Cup, Outstanding ITE Student Chapter, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 18, 2021
Li Song, Don Blackburn Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 18, 2021
Shaojie Liu, Roy D. Williams Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 18, 2021
Bo Qiu, Second Place Award, Graduate Student Presentation Competition, Fourth Annual CAMMSE Virtual Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte Center City, Charlotte, NC, November 5, 2021
Li Song, Third Place Award, Graduate Student Presentation Competition, Fourth Annual CAMMSE Virtual Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte Center City, Charlotte, NC, November 5, 2021
Shaojie Liu, Third Place Award, 2021 Graduate Research Symposium, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNC Charlotte, April 9, 2021
Yang Li, Don Blackburn Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 21, 2020
Pengfei Liu, Cyrus Painter Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 21, 2020
Zhen Chen, Outstanding Graduate Ph.D. Student Award, UNC Charlotte, December 5, 2019
Zhen Chen, Don Blackburn Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 21, 2019
Yang Li, Roy D. Williams Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 21, 2019
Zijing Lin, Emily Blount Honorary Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 21, 2019
Zijing Lin, First Place Award, Graduate Student Poster Competition, Second Annual CAMMSE Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte Center City, Charlotte, NC, November 7, 2019
Pengfei Liu, Second Place Award, Graduate Student Poster Competition, Second Annual CAMMSE Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte Center City, Charlotte, NC, November 7, 2019
Pengfei Liu, Second Place Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte, September 13, 2019
Zijing Lin, Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Charlotte Metro Chapter Mary N. Clayton Honorary Scholarship, January, 2019
Miao Yu, Outstanding Graduate Ph.D. Student Award, UNC Charlotte, December, 2018
Miao Yu, Excellent Paper Award, 2018 World Transport Convention, June, 2018
Linfeng Gong, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, UNC Charlotte, December, 2017
Linfeng Gong, Roy D. Williams Memorial Scholarship, North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, November, 2017

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