Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Rising Star, 2025
Selected for an NSF-sponsored workshop, among 30 selected from 174 applicants
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, 2025
Co-PI, $40,000 equivalent GPU resources donated by NVIDIA
Dissertation Enhancement Grant, 2025
PI, $2,000 awarded by the Vanderbilt University Graduate Leadership Institute
Lacy-Fischer Interdisciplinary Research Grant, 2025
PI, $7,500 awarded by the Vanderbilt Discovery Interdisciplinary Incentive
Russell G. Hamilton Scholarship, Vanderbilt University, 2022-2026
Awarded to highly qualified students to pursue the Ph.D. degree at Vanderbilt University
TSITE Student Scholarship, 2025
Awarded by the Tennessee Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (TSITE).
Presented annually to only 6 students statewide.
Graduate Leadership Anchor Award, 2025
Selected for research award by Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council
2nd place, Freeway Operations Student Research Needs Challenge, 2024
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
For the presentation on “Digital twin testbed for freeway corridors control"
Outstanding Paper Award, the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, 2025
Awarded to the paper “Stop-and-go wave reconstruction via iterative refinement" for high-resolution traffic phenomena reconstruction from broadly available sensors via generative AI
Best Paper Award, TRB subcommittee on Travel Time Speed and Reliability, 2025
Awarded to the paper “Assessing an AI-based Variable Speed Limit System on Proactive Slowdown Warnings with Ultra-High Fidelity Speed Data"
ASHE Middle Tennessee General Academic Scholarship, 2024
For academic excellence for students in Middle Tennessee working on highway industry
ITS Tennessee Student Scholarship, 2023
For academic excellence for students in Intelligent Transportation
Finalist, 11th Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition, Vanderbilt University, 2024
On the topic of The Chain Reaction of Traffic Jams
2nd place, Commodore Cup Sustainability Challenge, Vanderbilt University, 2023
Project: Towards a Mobility as a Service Future
Best Invited Lecture, Bluesky Lab at Southeast University, 2025
On the talk "Freeway traffic control: From experiments to practices"
Professional Development Award, Vanderbilt University, 2024
Travel support to The 25th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory
Meritorious Winner, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2018
Project: Investigation on renewable energy usage and development in four U.S. states
Second Prize, National Competition of Transport Science and Technology for Students, 2019
Mentoring undergraduate research project on mobile variable speed limit development
Second Prize, National Competition of Transport Science and Technology for Students, 2018
Leading undergraduate research project on signal timing refinement via simulated trajectory data
Provincial Best Bachelor Thesis Award, 2020
Demand forecasting and re-balancing strategies for the bike-sharing systems
Outstanding Undergraduate Student, Southeast University, 2019
Top 0.5% in Southeast University
Outstanding Presentation at the Undergraduate Research Fest, Southeast University, 2019
Signal timing refinement via simulated trajectory data