(Please see Members page for our students' awards)
2024 Fellow of the Optica (Formerly Optical Society of America)
2023 Distinguished Seminar Series, Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
2023 Chemical Communications Pioneering Investigator, Royal Society of Chemistry
2022 Outstanding Cover Award of Aggregate, Wiley
2022 One of four finalists for the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
2021 The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Senior Member
2021 Temple Foundation Endowed Teaching Fellowship in Engineering #2, UT Austin
2021 Participant at German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering
2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
2021 Outstanding Reviewer for Nanoscale Advances, 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 Texas Health Catalyst Consulting Award
2019 Department of Defense DURIP Award
2019 Top 5% of Highly Cited Authors in Analytical Portfolio of Royal Society of Chemistry
2019 Optical Society of America (OSA) Senior Member
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)
2017 Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator from Royal Society of Chemistry
2016 Journal of Materials Chemistry Emerging Investigator from Royal Society of Chemistry
2016 ASME NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference Poster Competition Award
2015 Analyst Emerging Investigator from Royal Society of Chemistry
2015 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2015 3M Nontenured Faculty Award from 3M Company
2015 Asian/Asian-American Faculty Staff Association Professional Development Award
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)
2008 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Scholar Award
2007 Sabih and Güler Hayek Graduate Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University
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NIH, NSF, ONR, NASA, ARO, Beckman Foundation, 3M, Exxonmobil, ORAU, and UT Austin
