NSF CAREER Award on securing the AI stack in emerging autonomous and connected CPSs, NSF SaTC (2022)
2nd place (Silver Medal), CCDC Western Regional competition (2022, as faculty advisor, top 2/22 in western region)
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship, UC Irvine (2021, 1 faculty per school)
5th place nation-wide, National CCDC competition (2021, as faculty advisor, top 5/168+ universities/colleges nation-wide)
1st place (Gold Medal), CCDC Western Regional competition (2021, as faculty advisor, top 1/18 in western region and advanced to National CCDC for the first time)
1st place (champion), Baidu Autonomous Driving Security CTF competition (2020, top 1/24)
Best Technical Poster Award for "Security of Deep Learning based Lane Keeping Assistance System under Physical-World Adversarial Attack" at NDSS 2020 (2020, top 1/30)
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)
Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award, Google (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)
1st prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP), Ministry of Education of China (2007, awarded the exemption of national college entrance exam)