Awards and Honors

Academic Awards

Olympiad Medalist, Across engineering fields, 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 (Summer) 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 (Summer) 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)

🎾 Consolation Champion, Intermediate Open Singles, Champaign Park District Labor Day Tennis Tournament (September 2026). News

University Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University (2023)
College of Engineering Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering (2023)
China National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China: 2018 (1/101), 2016 (1/97), and 2015 (1/94).