The AWE Best Student Paper Award was proudly announced at APCWE10!

The AWE Best Student Paper Award was announced at the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering (APCWE10), held in Chengdu, China, on August 16, 2025. This marks the second time AWE has sponsored the award at an international conference, having previously supported it at the 15th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, with the aim of inspiring and recognizing excellence among students in wind engineering.

Open to master's and doctoral students, the award was granted based on criteria including scientific rigor, originality, engineering significance, and presentation performance. An international judging panel composed of AWE editorial board members ensured a fair and authoritative selection process.

Following a rigorous full-text review and an on-site defense, three outstanding students were selected from a highly competitive field. Their research stood out for its innovation, practical significance, and academic merit, spanning multiple cutting-edge areas of wind engineering and demonstrating the remarkable potential of the next generation of researchers.

Award winner list

• Congju Liu

Tongji University

Title: Predicting typhoon-driven extreme wave-current conditions in the Taiwan strait using ConvLSTM

• Songyan Hu

South China University of Technology

Title: Post-disaster investigation and WRF model reconstruction of April 27th tornado in Guangzhou based on multi-source data fusion

• Zheyuan Mei

Tongji University

Title: Energy-driven mechanism of a flat box girder in bending-torsional coupled flutter

AWE Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Xuhui He from Central South University and Prof. Teng Wu from the University at Buffalo, presented certificates to the winners and encouraged them to build on this achievement and strive for greater success in their academic careers.

We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to the following seven experts for their dedication to ensuring the professionalism and fairness of this evaluation.

List of experts (sorted alphabetically):

• Richard Flay, University of Auckland
• Yaojun Ge, Tongji University
• Hassan Hemida, University of Birmingham
• Zhenru Shu, Central South University
• Bowen Yan, Chongqing University
• Jize Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Mingjie Zhang, Dalian University of Technology

In the future, AWE plans to extend this award to more wind engineering conferences. We warmly invite more students to follow the AWE official website for the latest updates on the AWE Best Student Paper Award. We look forward to greater participation and to advancing innovation and development in the field of wind engineering together.