- 2025: Outstanding Early Career Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- 2024: Best Paper Award, The 26th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024)
- 2024, 2023: Global Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate
- 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020: Worldwide Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University
- 2023: Outstanding Associate Editor Award, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics on Computational Intelligence
- 2023: Outstanding Associate Editor Award, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- 2023: Young Pioneer of Computing Power China (算力中国青年先锋人物), National Conference on Computational Power
- 2022: Intelligent Computing Innovator China (中国智能计算科技创新人物), MIT Technology Review/DeepTech
- 2021: Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- 2020: Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
- 2019: Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- 2019: Best Paper Award, The 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2019)
- 2018: Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- 2017: Best Student Paper Award, 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2017), Shenzhen
- 2016: Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
- 2015: Vice-Chancellor's Award, University of Surrey, UK