On September 21, 2020, the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC2020) was held in Greece by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. During the conference, the IEEE ITSS Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award was presented. Feng Shuo, a 2014 PhD graduate whose supervisor is Professor Zhang Yi from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, won the award for his doctoral dissertation titled "Testing Scenario Library Generation for Connected and Automated Vehicles". This year, a total of three individuals were selected for the award, and Feng Shuo ranked second, receiving the second prize. Due to the ongoing epidemic, the award ceremony was held simultaneously with the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems online. Feng Shuo attended the online award ceremony and delivered an acceptance speech.

Since the establishment of the "Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award" by IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society in 2006, 2-3 winners have been selected globally every year to recognize the contributions made by doctoral graduates to the theoretical research and key technology applications of intelligent transportation systems in the world during their degree studies. Up till 2020, only three Ph.D. graduates from mainland China have received this prestigious award - in 2006, 2013 and 2020.

Bio of Feng Shuo: He was admitted to the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University in 2010. In 2014, he was admitted to the PhD program in the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University (under the supervision of Professor Zhang Yi). From 2017 to 2019, he studied at the University of Michigan (under the supervision of Professor Henry X. Liu). During his doctoral study, Feng Shuo devoted himself to the intelligent testing of autonomous vehicles and proposed a creative testing scenario library generation method for connected and automated vehicles, which provided theoretical basis and methodological guidance for the large-scale application of intelligent testing of automated vehicles. He published 9 SCI papers as the first author/corresponding author in journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; he is a member of the On-Road Automated Driving Verification and Validation Committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers; he had served as the president of the Student Union of the Department of Automation, counselor of Grade 4, secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee, deputy leader of the student group, etc., and has been awarded honors such as the National Scholarship, "ZiJing Scholar", "Future Scholar", "12 · 9" Counselor Award, Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Excellent Doctoral Graduate, Beijing Outstanding Graduate, Beijing Merit Student and other honors.