Awards and Honors
Academic Awards
- Olympiad Medalist, All Engineering Field, 2025 Olympiad in Engineering Science, University of Stavanger, Norway (2025)
- Submission: Autonomous Drone-based System for Precision, Non-contact Surface Finishing in Construction
- Team: Tianyu Ren, Xiayu Zhao, Houtan Jebelli
- First Place, ASCE 2025 Global Robotics and Automation Competition, ASCE Computing Conference, New Orleans (2025)
- Submission: Module-enhanced Slope-Adaptive and Hazard-Aware Hexapod Robotic System for Safe Roof Inspection
- Team: Xiayu Zhao, Houtan Jebelli
- Journal Cover Feature, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (2025)
- Paper: A Computational Method for Real-time Roof Defect Segmentation in Robotic Inspection
Outstanding Graduate Award, Tianjin University (2019)
Outstanding Graduation Design Award, Tianjin University (2019)
Tianjin University’s Outstanding Student Award (1/1000) (2019)
- Honorable Mention, Skyscraper Competition (eVolo) (2018)
- Team: Jiangchen Hu, Yining Bei, Mingwen Zhang
Outstanding Project Assignment in National Higher Education Institutions (2017)
China Architecture Newcomers Competition – Top 100 Award (2017)
- First Prize, 4th National Tournament of Green Building Innovation (2015)
- Team: Adela Wei, Mark Wang, Mason Yang, Yu Zhao
- Sponsor: The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
Scholarships and Fellowships
University Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University (2023)
College of Engineering Scholarship, College of Engineering, PSU (2023)
China National Scholarship (1/101), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (2018)
China National Scholarship (1/97), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (2016)
China National Scholarship (1/94), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (2015)
