Honors & Awards
- 2020 SDITE Best Member Technical Paper "The Impact of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles on Highway Trust Fund: A Case Study in Alabama".
- Best Paper Award for the paper “Modeling the Risk of Wrong-Way Driving at the Exit Ramp Terminals.” By the TRB Standing Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics, 2020.
- 2019 SDITE Best Young Member Technical Paper "A New Method of Estimating Control Delays at Signalized Intersections Based on Videos Collected by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles".
- Editor’s Choice section of the Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems "Field Verification of Directional Rumble Strips to Deter Wrong-Way Freeway Driving".
- 2017 SDITE Best Member Technical Paper Award "Deceleration Lane Length".
- 2017 SDITE Best Member Technical Paper Award (tie) "Directional Rumble Strips".
- High Value Research Project Award, The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Research Advisory Committee, 2015, for the project “Development of a Traffic Incident Management Operational and Training Guide, Phase II,” as the PI.
- High Impact Project Award, Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), 2014
- High Impact Project Award, Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), 2012
- Excellent Paper Award (second author) at the 24th ICTPA Annual Conference, 2011
- Outstanding Research Award, School of Engineering at SIUE, 2010
- Florida Davis Productivity Award, 2008
- Georgia Brosch Memorial Transportation Scholarship, Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), University of South Florida, 2001
- Honorable Mention of Parsons Brinkerhoff Inc. Technical Paper Competition, 2001
- Southern Transportation Center (STC) Fellowship, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida, 1999-2000
- Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship, Beijing Jiao-Tong University, 1996
- ZHI-JING Fellowship, Beijing Jiao-Tong University, 1996-1997