Guan Zhaozhi Award of Chinese Control Conference (1997)
Young Author Prize of 14th IFAC World Congress (1999)
USA National Research Council Research Associateship Award (2000)
Young Scientist Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001)
First Prize of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province (2004, with P. Chen, H. Qin, et al)
Outstanding Young Scholar Research Grant of NNSF of China (2004)
Youth Award for Science and Technology of China (2006)
Distinguished Youth Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007)
State Natural Science Prize of China (2008, with D. Cheng, Z. Xi, and Y. Wang)
Most Cited Article (2006-2010) of Automatica (2010, by Y. Hong, J. Hu, and L. Gao)
Best Theoretical Paper Award of ICARCV (2012, with Dabo Xu)
Best Paper Award of J. Systems Science and Complexity (2013, with Xiaoli Wang)