Honors
- World Top 2% Scientists Ranked by Standford University (ICT) (Career Impact) (2022 version)
- 2022 World Top 2% Scientists Ranked by Standford University (ICT) (ranked 37048/200409)
- IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Woman) (only one winner) for contributions to trusted scalable computing
- IEEE TrustCom 2022 Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Distinguished Leadership Award at IEEE Cybermatics Congress, August 2022, Finland
- 2022 Shaanxi University Science and Technology Research Outstanding Achievement Award – “Security and Privacy Technologies Based on Trust Management（First Class）2022年陕西高等学校科学技术研究优秀成果奖 (基于信任管理的安全和隐私保护技术) (一等奖)
- Elsevier 2021 Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Scopus)
- Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor Award, Chinese Society of Electronic Education, 2021
- 2021 IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (supervising professor)
- 2021 N²Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications, 2021
- Aalto ELEC Impact Award 2020, Aalto University, Feb 15th 2021
- Elsevier 2020 highly cited Chinese researcher
- Distinguished Inventor Award of Nokia for significant technology contributions to Nokia’s IPR portfolio in the field of trustworthy networking and communications, 2020.
- The Best Paper Award, SpaCCS2019, Atlanta, USA (184 submissions with 20.1% acceptance rate)
- IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE SmartWorld Congress, August 2019, UK
- The Best Faculty of Xidian University 2018-2019
- Celtic-Plus Innovation Award to Sigmona, EU (project award) (2018)
- Outstanding Associate Editor of 2018 for IEEE Access
- IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE Blockchain, August 2018, Canada
- Associate Editor of the Month for IEEE Access, July 2018
- Academy of Finland Fellowship, 2017
- The 2017 Best Journal Paper Award of IEEE ComSoc TCBD (Technical Committee on Big Data) (one best paper award issued per year)
- Outstanding Associate Editor of 2017 for IEEE Access
- Outstanding Service Award at SpaCCS2017
- Distinguished Leadership Award at NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT-2017
- EU Eureka Celtic-Plus Excellence Award for Network Technologies - Celtic-Plus Sigmona project (2017)
- IEEE Distinguished Leadership Award at IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA2015
- Huashan Talent Young Professor Award of Xidian University (2015 - 2017)
- Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE CIT 2014
- Outstanding Service Award for IEEE RACIT2014 organization
- Outstanding Service Award for IEEE DTWSM2014 organization
- Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE HPCC/ICESS/CSS 2014
- The Best Faculty of Xidian University 2013-2014
- Excellent Individual from Abroad in Shaanxi Province, China 2014
- Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE TrustCom 2013
- Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE iThings 2012
- Outstanding Service Award at IEEE TrustCom 2012
- “100 Expert Plan” Award of Shaanxi Province, China (2011)
- Sisu Award, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki (2010)
- Best Organizer Award for special track organization in UIC/ATC2010 (2010)
- EU ITEA Bronze Achievement Award - Trust4All project (2008)
- Best Student Paper Award at ATC07 (2007)
- Research Fellowship Prize of Singapore Science & Technology Bureau (1997 - 1999)