Assistant Professor Yang Zheng has received the 2025 Donald P. Eckman Award, presented by the American Automatic Control Council. The Donald P. Eckman Award recognizes one outstanding young engineer (under the age of 35) each year for contributions to the field of automatic control. Professor Zheng is honored for fundamental contributions to convex and nonconvex optimization in optimal and distributed control, the development of scalable computational techniques, and impactful applications in traffic systems.