Dr. Yu Zhang's Honors and Awards
- Inducted to 2025 National Academy of Inventor Senior Member, 2/6/2025.
- Best Paper Award, Transportation Research Board Standing Committee of Intelligent Transportation System, “DARTS: Drone-Based AI-Powered Real-Time Traffic Incident Detection System”, 10/31/2024, presented during 2025 TRB Annual Meeting.
- TRB 2023 Blue Ribbon Committee for Identifying and Advancing Ideas for Research, Chair of Airfield and Airspace Performance Committee.
- Amazon Research Awards (2021), https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/program-updates/2020-amazon-research-awards-recipients-announced.
- Best Paper Award for the airline operations, quality of service and marketing track in 5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2012).
- 2010 Fred Burggraf Award, Aviation, for excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger, presented by Transportation Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science
- Robert Horonjeff Memorial Grant (2007)
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2006)
- UCTC Dissertation Grant (2006-2007)
- UCTC fellowship (2005-2006)
- Graduate Scholarship, UC Berkeley (2003-2004)
- Departmental Block Grant Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2002-2003)
- James H. Kell Student Competition Award, Institute of Transportation Engineer (2003)
- Best paper of Nanjing Transportation Bureau, China, (1999)
- Employee of the year, Nanjing Highway Administration, China (1998)
- Honored Graduate, Southeast University, China (1997)
- Undergraduate Fellowship, Southeast University, China (1993-1997)