Awards and speeches

• 1985-1987: Dalbir Bindra Major Fellowship, McGill University.
• 1987-1989: Dalbir Bindra Major Fellowship, McGill University.
• 1990: Dean’s Honor List, McGill University.
• 1992: Faculty Research Award, Wayne State University.
• 1992: Research Initiation Award of the National Science Foundation.
• 1994: Faculty Internship Award of the National Science Foundation.
• 1995: Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Wayne State University.
• 2003-2005: President Research Enhancement Award, Wayne State University.
• 2012: IEEE Fellow.
• 2012: Best Poster Award (with Mohammad and Feng Lin), IEEE SEM 2012.
• 2012: Best Paper Award (with Lijian Xu and George Yin), IEEE EIT 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 6-8, 2012.
• 2014: Outstanding Reviewer for the period July 2012 - June 2013, Automatica.
• 2015: Faculty Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Wayne State University.
• 2015: Eminent Engineer, Tau Beta Pi.
• 2016: Academy of Scholars, Wayne State University.
• 2016: the Best Associate Editor Award, Control Theory and Technology.
• 2016: Best Paper Award, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, for the paper: Le Yi Wang, Ali Syed, George Yin, Abhilash Pandya, Hongwei Zhang, Control of vehicle platoons for highway safety and efficient utility: Consensus withcommunications and vehicle dynamics, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp 605-631, August 2014.
• 2017: Best Paper Award, Rui Xiong, Quanqing Yu, Le Yi Wang, A novel method to obtain the OCV-SOC relationship of the lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles, ICEEE 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, July 26-29, 2017.
• 2024: Fellow, The International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)
• Fellow, The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

Plenary speeches and editorial boards

• Plenary Speaker: 2024 14th International Conference on Power, Energy, and Electrical Engineering (CPEEE 2024), Tokyo, Japan, February 24-26, 2024.
• Plenary Speaker: 2023 IEEE the 11th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), Oshawa, Canada, August 13-15, 2023.
• Keynote Speaker: 2023 8th International Conference on Advances on Clean Energy Research (ICACER 2023), Barcelona, Spain, April 28-30, 2023.
• Keynote Speaker: SCIS Forum on Fundamental Problems and Advances in Control of Uncertain Systems, Online, October 27, 2022.
• Keynote Speaker: Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking (CPN2020), in IEEE Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC2020), Las Vegas, January 10-13, 2020.
• Plenary Speaker: The 38th Chinese Control Conference (CCC2019), Guangzhou, China, July 27-30, 2019.
• Keynote Speaker: International Workshop on Frontiers of Autonomous Systems and Applications (IWFASA 2019), Chengdu, China, May 11-12, 2019.
• Plenary Speaker: The 18th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT2018), Chengdu, China, December 8-10, 2018.
• Plenary Speaker: The 2018 International Conference on Electronics and Communication Engineering (ICECE2018), Xi'an, China, December 10-12, 2018.
• Plenary Speaker: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT2017), Chengdu, China, October 29, 2017Plenary Speaker: The 17th IFAC Conference on System Identification (SYSID 2015), Beijing, China, October 21, 2015.
• Plenary Speaker: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT2015), Hangzhou, China, October 19, 2015.
• Plenary Speaker: Fall Conference of IEEE SEM, Dearborn, Nov. 6, 2013.
• Plenary Speaker: The 11th International Conference on Systems, Crete Island, Greece, July 23-25, 2007.
• Plenary Speaker: The International Multi-Conference on Mathematical Biology and Ecology, Miami, Jan. 2006.
• Plenary Speaker: 2000 Chinese Control Conference, Hong Kong, December 6-8, 2000.
• Plenary Speaker: Conference on Feedback Control, Nonlinearity, and Complexity, Montreal, Canada, May 6-7, 1994.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 2000-December 2001.
• Editor, Journal of System Sciences and Complexity, August 2000-2014.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, January 2000 - 2003.
• Associate Editor: Journal of Control Theory and Applications (later, Control Theory and Technology), 2001-2016.