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(Please see Members page for our students' awards)

2025 Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 2, UT Austin

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)

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 Texas Health Catalyst Award

2019 University Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper

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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We acknowledge our past and current research sponsors: 

NIH, NSF, ONR, NASA, ARO, Beckman Foundation, 3M, Exxonmobil, ORAU, KAUST, UT Austin-Portugal, and UT Austin