Finalist, Transportation Technology Tournament (TTT), Fengze Yang (team leader), Bo Yu, and Xuewen Luo, National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE), in collaboration with the Utah Department of Transportation, Aug. 2025. The team presented the project at the ITE Annual Meeting on August 11, 2025.
Student Scholarship, Fengze Yang, ITE Utah Section, May 2025. He presented his recent research at the Mountain District ITE Conference.
Fellowship Program for Promoting Women, Young Professionals, and Leadership in ITS, Xuewen Luo, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), Apr. 2025. As part of the program, she organized and hosted a workshop in June titled “Ask Her Way: A Reverse Q&A and Career Match for Aspiring Women in Transportation.”
Individual Honors & Awards
2022 – 2026
Researcher Access Award, OpenAI, “Distilling GPT-4o for the Edge: Real-Time Transportation Decision Making via Multi-Modal Knowledge Extraction”, Jan 2026.
Best Paper Award, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2025, Workshop on Multi-agent Embodied Intelligent Systems, “LangCoop: Collaborative Driving with Language”, July 2025.
Best Dissertation Award, Chinese Oversea Transportation Association (COTA) FY 24, “Situation-Aware and Customized Machine Intelligence for Transportation Safety, Equity, and Resilience”. Jan, 2025.
Editor’s Choice, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, “Potentials and Challenges of AI-Empowered Solutions to Urban Transportation Infrastructure Systems: NSF AI-Transportation Workshop Phase I”. Sep. 2024.
Best Innovation Paper Award, The 5th International Conference on Highway Engineering (iCHE), “Detecting Lateral Offset Distance on Rural Road in Thailand by Using Point Cloud Data : A Case Study”. Sep. 2024.
Michael Kyte Outstanding Student of the Year Award, US Department of Transportation University Transportation Center (UTC) for Federal Region 10, Oct 2023.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award, U.S. Department of Transportation FY 23, “Edge Computing and Sensor Fusion System for Comprehensive Monitoring of Traffic and Road Conditions”, Oct. 2023.
Runner-up, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Presentation Competition, University of Washington, May 2023.
Best Paper Award, TRB Standing Committee on Information Systems and Technology (AED30), for the paper titled “Cooperative and Comprehensive Multi-task Surveillance Sensing and Interaction System Empowered by Edge Artificial Intelligence”, Jan. 2023.
Outstanding Poster Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) AI in Transportation Workshop, Dec. 2022.
Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence conference (IEEE DTPI 2022), for the paper titled “Real-Time Traffic and Road Surveillance with Parallel Edge Intelligence (JRFID-0141-07-2022).” Nov. 2022.
Winner, Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) Region 10 Poster Competition, for research “Real-time Multi-task Environmental Perception System for Traffic Safety Empowered by Edge Artificial Intelligence”, Oct. 2022.
Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, US Department of Transportation University Transportation Center (UTC) for Federal Region 10, Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), AIWaysion Inc., Oct. 2022
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award, U.S. DOT FY 22, “Edge Server-Based AI Application for Dilemma Zone and Traffic Conflict”, AIWaysion Inc., Oct. 2022.
High-Value Research Award, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) for project “Real-Time Truck Parking Information Integration, Visualization and Prediction”, Aug 2022.
Runner-up, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Presentation Competition, University of Washington, Jun. 2022.
Winner, Second MetroLab Student Cup Organized by MetroLab Network, for project “Real-time Road Surface Conditions and Visibility Monitoring System for Traffic Safety”, Jun. 2022.
Winner in Mobility Track, First MetroLab Student Cup Organized by MetroLab Network, for project “Curbside Parking Monitoring and Management Using Edge Computing Technology”. Dec. 2020.
Outstanding Award (6/1500), Third Di-Tech Smart Traffic Signal AI Algorithm Competition organized by Didi Chuxing Technology Co., Mar. 2018.
Travel Award, College of Engineering, University of Washington, 2018, 2020, 2022.
Travel Award, Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) Region 10 University Transportation Center, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023.