Most Amusing Award and Most Engaging Award for talk ”Ghost Cars & Fake Obstacles: First Look at Control Software Stack Security in Emerging Smart Transportation” at HotSec’19
Distinguished Poster Presentation for "Security Analysis of Multi-Sensor Fusion based Localization in Autonomous Vehicles" at NDSS 2019
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan (2019, top 10 in University of Michigan, across all graduate schools ranging from science and engineering to archaeology and history)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham School, University of Michigan (2017, 1-2 each dept. to support students working
on dissertation that are unusually creative, ambitious and risk-taking)
Rackham-CRLT Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) certificate, Rackham School, University of Michigan (2017)
Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award, Google (2016)
Student Travel Grant, Rackham school (2013-2015), USENIX Security (2013-2015), CCS (2015), and NDSS (2016)
3rd place in Annual Code Optimization Contest, CSE dept., University of Michigan (2012)
Graduate Fellowship, CSE dept., University of Michigan (2012)
Top 100 Excellent Undergraduate Students of the Year (top 100 of China), China Computer Federation (2012)
Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Thesis in Nanjing University (2012) and Jiangsu province (2013)
National Scholarship (top 1.5% of univ.), Ministry of Education of China (2010)
Model Outstanding Student (top 0.3% of univ.), Nanjing University (2011)
1st prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP), Ministry of Education of China (2007, awarded the exemption of national college entrance exam)