Dissertation and Thesis Awards

Zhengt­ian Xu
2021 TSL Dis­ser­ta­tion Prize, Trans­porta­tion Sci­ence and Logis­tics (TSL) Soci­ety, Insti­tute for Oper­a­tions Research and Man­age­ment (INFORMS).

Zhengt­ian Xu
HKSTS Out­stand­ing Dis­ser­ta­tion Award cum Gor­don Newell Memo­r­i­al Prize 2021, Hong Kong Soci­ety of Trans­porta­tion Stud­ies (HKSTS).

Liteng Zha
2017 COTA Best Dis­ser­ta­tion Award, Chi­nese Over­seas Trans­porta­tion Association.

Yingyan Lou
2009 Pikarsky Award for Out­stand­ing Ph.D. Dis­ser­ta­tion in Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, the Coun­cil of Uni­ver­si­ty Trans­porta­tion Centers.

Dim­i­tra Michalaka
2009 Pikarsky Award for Out­stand­ing M.S. The­sis in Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, the Coun­cil of Uni­ver­si­ty Trans­porta­tion Centers.

Paper Awards

Kikuchi-Kar­laftis 2021 Best Paper Award, Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and Advanced Com­put­ing Appli­ca­tions Com­mit­tee, Trans­porta­tion Research Board, Jan­u­ary 2022
Qin, G., Luo, Q., Yin, Y., Sun, J., and Ye, J. Opti­miz­ing match­ing time inter­vals for ride-hail­ing ser­vices using rein­force­ment learn­ing. Trans­porta­tion Research Part C: Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies 129 (2021): 103239.

Ryuichi Kita­mu­ra Award, Trav­el Analy­sis Meth­ods Sec­tion, Trans­porta­tion Research Board, Jan­u­ary 2017
Chen, Z., Xu, Z., Zan­gui, M. and Yin, Y. Analy­sis of advanced man­age­ment of curb­side park­ing. Trans­porta­tion Research Record, 2567, 57–66, 2016

Stel­la Dafer­mos Best Paper Award, Trans­porta­tion Net­work Mod­el­ing Com­mit­tee, Trans­porta­tion Research Board, Jan­u­ary 2016
Chen, Z., Xu, Z., Zan­gui, M. and Yin, Y. Analy­sis of advanced man­age­ment of curb­side park­ing. Trans­porta­tion Research Record, 2567, 57–66, 2016

Poster Awards

Engi­neer­ing Inno­va­tion Award, Engi­neer­ing Col­lege Sym­po­sium, Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, Octo­ber 2018
Sun, X., and Yin, Y. Behav­ioral­ly sta­ble vehi­cle pla­toon­ing for ener­gy savings

Faculty Awards

Fac­ul­ty-Staff Part­ner­ship Award, Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, May 2021

Mon­roe-Brown Foun­da­tion Edu­ca­tion Excel­lence Award, Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, March 2021

COTA Out­stand­ing Lead­er­ship Award, Chi­nese Over­sea Trans­porta­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, July 2018

Fac­ul­ty Men­tor Research Award, Engi­neer­ing School of Sus­tain­able Infra­struc­ture and Envi­ron­ment, Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da, April 2015

2011–2012 Advisor/Mentoring Award, Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da, April 2012

Student Awards

Tara Rad­vand
Gar­ret A. Mor­gan Trans­porta­tion Achieve­ment Schol­ar­ship, Con­fer­ence of Minor­i­ty Trans­porta­tion Offi­cials (COMTO), June 2022

Tara Rad­vand
Jacobs Trans­porta­tion Schol­ar­ship, Con­fer­ence of Minor­i­ty Trans­porta­tion Offi­cials (COMTO), June 2022

Mojta­ba Abdol­male­ki
Rack­ham Pre­doc­tor­al Fel­low­ship, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, April 2022

Alex Sundt
Out­stand­ing Stu­dent of the Year Award (SOYA), Cen­ter for Con­nect­ed and Auto­mat­ed Trans­porta­tion (CCAT), Jan­u­ary 2022

Xiao­tong Sun
Anna Olcott Smith Award, Rack­ham Grad­u­ate School, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, April 2020

Zhengt­ian Xu
Rack­ham Pre­doc­tor­al Fel­low­ship, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, April 2019

Xiao­tong Sun
Engi­neer­ing Inno­va­tion Award, the Engi­neer­ing Grad­u­ate Sym­po­sium, Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, Novem­ber 2018

Eleft­he­ria (Ria) Kontou
The Future Indus­try Spot­light Award, Amer­i­can Road & Trans­porta­tion Builders Asso­ci­a­tion, Octo­ber 2016

Fang He
The Out­stand­ing Aca­d­e­m­ic Award, Engi­neer­ing School of Sus­tain­able Infra­struc­ture & Envi­ron­ment, Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da, April 2014

Dim­i­tra Michalaka
The Alec Courtelis Award, Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter, Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da, Novem­ber 2011

Dim­i­tra Michalaka
The Future Indus­try Spot­light Award, Amer­i­can Road & Trans­porta­tion Builders Asso­ci­a­tion, Sep­tem­ber 2011

Dim­i­tra Michalaka
Gator of Engi­neer­ing Attribute Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Award for Lead­er­ship, Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da, June 2011