The American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2016 Turbo Expo Turbomachinery Technical Conference Best Paper Award (paper presented: GT2016-57587- Cooling Injection Effect on a Transonic Squealer Tip: Part 2 Analysis of Aerothermal Interaction Physics, by H. Ma, Q. Zhang, L. He, Z. Wang, L. Wang)

Borchers plaque (Borchers-Plakette) for excellent dissertation, 2008, RWTH-Aachen Univ., Germany.
Excellent supervisor for foreign graduate students (优秀留学生导师), Shanghai JiaoTong Univ. 2013

National Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), Geometrical structure of the turbulent vector field (PI) , 2011.1-2015.12 (580,000 RMB)
NSFC-CNRS Joint Research Projects Program(中法联合研究项目), Lagrangian turbulence: statistics based on direct numerical simulation & analysis and marine experimental applications (PI from the China side), 2016.1-2018.12
NSFC Major Research Plan for Fundamentals of turbulence combustion in confined space (湍流燃烧重大研究计划), Nonlocal and quantitative descriptions of the flame-flow interaction in turbulent combustion (PI), 2015.1-2017.12
Joint research with China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp. Numerical realization of the surface micro-scale structure (PI), 2014.1-2014.12
Open funding from the state key lab of Nonlinear Mechanics , Chinese Academy of Science , Statistical properties of premixed turbulent flames (PI), 2010.1-2011.12
National Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), Thermal-fluid properties of the dapped turbine blade surface (co-PI), 2011.1-2015.12
National Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), Heat transfer efficiency on dimple surface in gas turbine (co-PI), 2010.1-2013.12