西南交通大学
Yonggang Huang is a member of US National Academy of Engineering, a member of US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a foreign member of Academia Europaea, and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been honored with many recognitions for his research in mechanics and mechanical engineering including the Larson Award (2003), Melville Medal (2004), Richards Award (2010), Drucker Medal (2013), Nadai Medal (2016), Thurston Lecture Award (2019) and Honorary Member (2021) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Young Investigator Medal (2006) and Prager Medal (2017) from the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES); International Journal of Plasticity Medal (2007); the Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and Bazant Medal (2018) and von Karman Medal (2019) from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (2009), in Materials Science and Engineering (2014-), and in Physics (2018). He has been awarded the Honorary Professor from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Xiangtan University, Beihang University and Shanghai University. His recognitions for undergraduate teaching and advising include the Most Supportive Junior Faculty Member from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona in 1993; On the list of “Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students” in Spring 2003, Spring and Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2006, and Spring 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007; Cole-Higgins Award for Excellence in Teaching, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University in 2016; and Associated Student Government Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll, Northwestern University in 2018 and 2020.