- IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, for the paper: Shaoshi Yang* and Lajos Hanzo, "Fifty years of MIMO detection: The road to large-scale MIMOs," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1941-1988, Fourth Quarter, 2015. The award is presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun. 7-11, 2020.
- IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) Best Journal Paper Award, for the paper: Kent Tsz Kan Cheung, Shaoshi Yang* and Lajos Hanzo, "Achieving maximum energy-efficiency in multi-relay OFDMA cellular networks: A fractional programming approach," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 2746-2757, Jul. 2013. The award is presented at the IEEE TCGCC committee meeting at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
- President Award for Wireless Innovations, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 2018.
- Dean’s Award for Early Career Research Excellence, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton (A highly prestigious award competed for by all academic/research staff (300+) of the Faculty, except the full professors), 2015.
- The SETsquared Partnership "Research to Innovator" Entrepreneurship Programme, 2013 - 2014.
- Travel Grant of the Spitialfields Day -- "The Mathematical Legacy of Alan Turing'' Workshop, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 2012.
- Research Studentship from School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, 2009-2012.
- IEEE CCNC 2009 Student Travel Grant, 2009.
- PMC-Sierra Telecommunications Technology Paper Award, 2008.