(Please see Members page for our students' awards)
2025 Fellow of The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
2024 Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering #4, UT Austin
2024 Fellow of the Optica (Formerly Optical Society of America)
2023 Distinguished Seminar Series, University of Colorado Boulder
2022 One of four finalists for the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
2021 Temple Foundation Endowed Teaching Fellowship in Engineering #2, UT Austin
2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
2021 Outstanding Reviewer, Royal Society of Chemistry
2020 William W. Hagerty Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering, UT Austin
2020 IEEE NANO Best Poster Award
2020 Texas Health Catalyst Award
2019 University Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper
2019 Department of Defense DURIP Award
2019 J. Mike Walker Faculty Scholarship, UT Austin
2019 Fellow of the Institute of Physics
2019 Franklin Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service, UT Austin
2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2018 Materials Today Rising Star Award from Elsevier Ltd
2017 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award (UT News; SPIE News)
2017 Early Career Faculty Award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
2017 Young Investigator Award from Office of Naval Research (ONR)
2015 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2015 3M Nontenured Faculty Award from 3M Company
2014 Beckman Young Investigator Award from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Video)
2014 Graduate School Alumni Society Early Career Award from Pennsylvania State University
2012 Chancellor’s Award Finalist for Postdoctoral Research, University of California, Los Angeles
2010 Alumni Association Dissertation Award, Pennsylvania State University
2009 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, Materials Research Society
2009 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, Pennsylvania State University
2008 Founder’s Grant and Prize of the American Academy of Mechanics, Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation (Winning assay: Progress Through Mechanics: Artificial Molecular Machines)
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NIH, NSF, ONR, NASA, ARO, Beckman Foundation, 3M, Exxonmobil, ORAU, KAUST, UT Austin-Portugal, and UT Austin