Awards

Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation. 2026
New Generation Star Award, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2024
Best Paper Award, ICPS, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. May 2021
Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Purdue University, USA. Feb. 2020
Bilsland Fellowship, College of Engineering, Purdue University, USA. Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2020
Travel Grant, 8th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory, USA. Apr. 2019
AAE Teaching Assistant Award, AAE, Purdue University, USA. Oct. 2018
Koerner Scholarship, Purdue University, USA. Aug. 2017
Outstanding Graduate Award, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Sep. 2016

Al Jaber Mahmud, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Travel Grant, IEEE. 2026
Zechen Hu, Summer Graduate Research Assistantship, George Mason University. 2026
Al Jaber Mahmud, IES Students and Young Professionals Paper Assistance Program, IEEE. 2025
Yizhi Zhou, Daniel R. Bannister Ph.D. Retention Fellowship, George Mason University. 2024
Zechen Hu, Best Paper Finalist on Cognitive Robots at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Oct. 2023
Makaela Vidal, Kabir Basnet, Huy Luu, Namita Palahalli, Lizzie Krebs, and Richard Kang, Outstanding ECE Senior Design Project Award. Fall 2023
Muhammad Umair, CEC Innovation Week Best Poster Award, George Mason University. Mar. 2023
Yizhi Zhou, GMU Presidential Scholarship, George Mason University. 2022-2026