Zhang Yaqin holds 60 U.S. patents and has published more than 500 academic papers and monographs. Dr. Zhang Yaqin is a board member of many high-tech companies, has participated in the formulation of various international technical standards, and is a trustee or honorary professor of 20 universities around the world. He is a member of the Committee of 100, an organization of outstanding Chinese Americans in the United States, and actively promotes political, economic, technological and cultural exchanges between China and the United States. At the same time, Dr. Zhang Yaqin is also one of the leaders of high-tech industries in China and the Asia-Pacific region. In March 2010, he was invited to attend the third session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress, and submitted a proposal that "a national cloud computing strategy should be formulated and deployed as soon as possible". In addition to serving as a government advisor to many provinces and cities in China, he is also a member of the Malaysian government's international advisory group and serves as an information and communications technology advisor to Australia, providing advice on relevant decision-making in these countries and regions.
In 2012, he won the "Individual Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to China's Information Industry".
In 2012, he won the "IT Era Leadership Award".
In 2010, he won the "Chinese Business Leader Award".
In 2008, he was selected as one of the “Top Ten Scientific and Technological Talents in China in 2007”.
In 2007, he won the "2007 China IT Person of the Year" and "2007 Most Valuable Manager" awards.
In 2006, he won the annual "Most Outstanding Asian Engineer Award" in the United States.
In 2004, he won the IEEE Industry Pioneer Award. This was the first time that this award was awarded to a Chinese.
In 2003, he won the "China Education Special Contribution Award" issued by the Ministry of Education for the first time.
In 2002, he received the "Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award" from George Washington University.
In 1999, he won the Young Engineer of the Year award in the United States and became the first Chinese to win this award. Former US President Clinton said in a letter to Zhang Yaqin that he "is an inspiration"; his mentor, Pico Hotez, an academician of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, once praised him as "a wealth to the world".