Professor Yitang Zhang has been recognized with a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) 2018 Award program.

 

This award is used to honour persons who serve as role models and a source of inspiration for Asian American engineers and scientists. Previous Distinguished Award recipients (a total of 35 in the last fifteen years) include Dr. Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Manjul Bhargava 2014 Fields Medalist and Dr. Henry Yang, our chancellor.