1. Mar. 1994: Admitted as a undergraduate without the mandatory exam

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University for my excellent achievements in the national Olympic Contests of Mathematics and Chemistry

2. 1997,1996,1995,1994: In the dean’s list

3. Sep. 1997: Second prize in China mathematic contest in modeling

The contest is traditional annually held event in China in order to encourage gifted students to exercise their talent in mathematic modeling each year, hundreds of excellent students take part in the contest

4. Oct. 1997: Admitted as a graduate without the mandatory exam

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 8% students in the class

5. Apr. 1998: Excellent paper of thesis (Minor)

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to top 15% of all students

6. Jul. 1998: Excellent paper of thesis (Major)

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to top 15% of all students

7. Jun. 1999: First prize in the Hua-Wei communication paper contest

The contest is sponsored by “Huawei” Company. Awarded to only the top 5 outstanding graduate students among more than 200 participants

8. Nov. 1999: University excellent graduate student

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 15% students in the class

9. Nov. 1999: First prize scholarship of Xinxing company

Awarded by Xinxing Company to 20 outstanding graduate students in the university

10. Nov. 2000: University outstanding student

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 5% students in the class (in fact the top one)

11. Nov. 2000: Scholarship of USA-IET

Awarded by International Engineering Technology Incorporated in U.S.A

12. Nov. 2001: Excellent paper of CBME’2001

Awarded by the CBME’ 2001 Conference Committee (China)

13. Nov. 2001: University excellent graduate student

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the 15% students in the class

14. Nov.2002: University outstanding student

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to the top 5% students in the class (in fact the top one)

15. Nov. 2002: First prize scholarship of HuaWei company

Awarded by “HuaWei” Company to the outstanding graduate students in the university

16. Jun. 2004: First prize (top one) in the teaching skill contest

Awarded by the college of telecommunication engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi university

17. Sep. 2004: Outstanding young teacher

Awarded by Hangzhou Dianzi University to 16 teachers among all the teachers not older than 35

18. Dec. 2004: Excellent paper of the Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University

Awarded to 28 papers among all the papers published on the Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University between 2001 and 2002

19. Jun. 2005: University research achievements prize

Awarded by the Education Ministry of ZheJiang Province, China

20. July. 2005, Outstanding doctoral dissertation

Awarded by Xi’an Jiaotong University to 17 authors among all the graduated Ph.D students in the past two years

21. Oct. 2005, First prize of natural science papers

Awarded by the Association of Sci. & Tech. of ZheJiang Province, China, to 19 papers selected from 27,139 natural science papers published in 2003- 2004 and authored by the researchers in Zhejiang Province

22. May 2006: Senior member of the IEEE

Awarded by the IEEE which is the world’s leading professional association

23. December 2007: Inverse Problems highlight article

Awarded by Inverse Problems for the paper “Ye YB, Yu HY, Wang G: Cone-beam pseudo-lambda tomography. Inverse Problems 23:203-215, 2007”

24. May 2008, Most cited paper in the Journal of X-ray Science and Technology in the past 5 years (with  Wang; 12(2): 97-116, 2004)

25. Feb 2011, SPIE Medical Imaging poster award

With Q. Xu, X.Q. Mou and G. Wang, Paper ID: 796130

26. May 2011. Top-ten most cited paper in Phys. Med. Biol.

Reported by the Editorial Office of Physics in Medicine and Biology (For the paper by Yu and Wang, Phys. Med. Biol. 54(9): 2791-2805)

27. June 2011, Inverse Problems highlight collection in 2010

Selected by the Editorial Board of Inverse Problems (for the paper by Yang, Yu, Jiang and Wang, Article ID: 035013)

28. Jan. 2012, NSF CAREER award

Awarded by the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, ENG Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation 

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1149679

29. June 2012, Inverse Problems highlight collection in 2011

Selected by the Editorial Board of Inverse Problems (for the paper by Gao, Yu, Osher and Wang, Article ID: 115012)

30. January 2013, Research Excellence Award

Awarded by the Wake Forest University Health Sciences for fiscal year 2012

31. February 2013, Inverse Problems highlight collection in 2012

Selected by the Editorial Board of Inverse Problems (for the paper by Yang, Yu, Jiang and Wang, Article ID:015001)

32. December 2014, Certificate of Appreciation for Notable Services and Fine Contributions

Certificated by the IEEE Access Journal for services as Guest Editor for the special issue entitled “Emerging CT technologies”

33. March 2015, Featured Special Issue on Spectral CT, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging

Guest Editors: Ge Wang, Anthony Butler, Hengyong Yu, Michael Campbell (http://ieee-tmi.org/fast-facts/featured-article.asp?id=4&title=Special-Edition:-Spectral-CT,-March-2015)

34. November 2015, Most Popular Paper List, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging

Listed as one of the top 50 most frequently downloaded papers according to the most recent monthly usage statistics for the paper co-authored with Xu et al.(IEEE-TMI, 31(9):1682-1697, 2012).

35. September 2016, Outstanding Poster Award, SPIE Annual Meeting (CT Conference)

With Morteza Shalehjahormi and Yanbo Zhang, Paper ID: 9967-64.

36. March 2017, Recognition for Peer-reviewed Publications (Faculty Symposium)

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