JI professor Yanfeng Shen clinches 2020 Achenbach Medal

The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Join Institute (JI) Associate Professor Yanfeng Shen has become the 2020 winner of the Achenbach Medal, an international award serving as a recognition for outstanding academic achievements of a young scholar in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).

Yanfeng Shen (right) is advising his student

The Achenbach Medal has been created to recognize an individual (within 10 years of PhD) who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the field of Structural Health Monitoring. It is an international award with a very strict selection standard through fierce competition. Each year, only one winner is chosen out of numerous nominees from all over the world.
According to the announcement of the award committee, the 2020 Achenbach Medal is jointly won by Professor Yanfeng Shen and Professor Thomas Schumacher from Portland State University. This makes Professor Yanfeng Shen the first recipient of the medal from the Chinese research institutes, in ten years since the establishment of the award. The 2020 Achenbach Medal will be presented at the International Workshop for Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM) to be held at the Stanford University in September 2021.