Prof Bingyang Cao recieved the Top Reviewer Award for 2017 from the journal Applied Physics Letters. APL selected 20 TRA winners over the world this year due to their review quality, that is "Not only did you review multiple manuscripts last year, our editors found your reviews to be consistently thorough and discerning".The top reviewer awards for 2017 have been announced in a special editorial published in Applied Physics Letters 111 039801 (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4991645.