Awards

2026   |   2025

2026

  • Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award 2026 (Recipient: Jidong Zhao)
    Author Service Award for editorial work with Granular Matter.

  • Scott Sloan Best Paper Award (Recipient: Zhen-Yu Yin)
    Recognising outstanding research published in Computers and Geotechnics.

  • Elected to the European Academy of Sciences (Recipient: Zhen-Yu Yin)
    In recognition of contributions to geotechnical engineering, constitutive modelling, numerical analysis, model testing, and AI-enabled civil engineering.

  • Second Prize, Shanghai Natural Science Award (Recipient: Zhen-Yu Yin)
    First contributor to “Constitutive Modelling of Soft Clay and Intelligent Parameter Identification”.

2025

  • Chandrakant S. Desai Excellence Medal (Recipient: Jidong Zhao)
    In recognition of significant and lasting contributions to research and education in geomechanics.
    19 December 2025, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • John Booker Excellence Medal (Recipient: Zhen-Yu Yin)
    International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), presented at the 17th IACMAG Conference.
    18-21 December 2025, Hong Kong

  • Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Recipient: Lin Fu)
    16 October 2025, United Kingdom

  • Fellow of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) (Recipient: Hui Su)
    Recognising sustained excellence and leadership in geosciences.
    28 July 2025, Singapore

  • 19th Youth Science and Technology Award (Recipient: Lin Fu)
    Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
    19 July 2025, Changsha, China

  • Second Prize, Best Presentation Award (Recipient: Jack C. P. Cheng)
    NSFC-RGC 2025 Conference: Frontiers of Digital Twins in Intelligent Manufacturing and Smart Cities.
    25-28 April 2025, Hong Kong

  • Third Prize, Best Paper Award (Recipient: Jack C. P. Cheng)
    NSFC-RGC 2025 Conference: Frontiers of Digital Twins in Intelligent Manufacturing and Smart Cities.
    25-28 April 2025, Hong Kong

  • Bronze Medal, 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (Recipient: Jack C. P. Cheng)
    For work on digital twins and generative AI with multimodal vision-language models for urban flood monitoring.
    9-13 April 2025, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) (Recipient: Quanke Su)
    11 January 2025, Hong Kong

  • Best Paper Award (Recipient: Jack C. P. Cheng)
    6th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2025).
    8-11 January 2025, Hong Kong

  • Best Paper Prize 2025, Acta Geotechnica (Recipient: Jidong Zhao)