13Oct2018       CAST-USA Extraordinary Scientist Award (Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA)

2July2018        MG15 Award (The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Award)

2010                 The Wolf Prize
2010                 AAEOY Distinguished Science & Technology Award
2003                 2003 International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award
1997                 National Medal of Science, U.S.A
1994                 Crafoord Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1991                 Humboldt Research Award, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 1985 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
1984                 One of America’s 100 brightest scientists under 40, Science Digest
1982                 Fields Medal, International Congress of Mathematicians
1981                 The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

1981                 The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, American Mathematical Society 

1980                 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, USA 

1979                 California Scientist of the Year, California Science Center

1975 - 1976      Alfred P. Sloan Fellow