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MAE recent PhD graduate Dr. Yizhai Zhang won 2013 Chinese government's Award for Outstanding Students Abroad

MAE recent Ph.D. graduate Dr. Yizhai Zhang has won the 2013 Chinese government's Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. This prestigious award is presented by the Chinese Ministry of Education to recognize outstanding academic achievement of self-financed Ph.D. students abroad. Only those with outstanding performance in the PhD studies are considered by the award selection panel, and no more than 500 young talents worldwide are granted the award each year. The winners receive a plaque and $6000 to support their research. This year, Yizhai is the only awardee from Rutgers University (all campuses) to join the list of 30 awardees from all top US universities in the region such as Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, etc. Yizhai will attend the award ceremony held by the Chinese Consulate in New York city on May 9 2014. Dr. Yizhai Zhang was advised by Professor Jingang Yi at Rutgers and he is now an associate professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), one of top engineering schools in China.