Honors & Awards

• Fellow, SPIE ¨C International Optical Society, 2009


• Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2009


• Campus Achievement Award for Promotion Dossier, Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 2008


• National 4-H Alumni Award for Illinois, 2008


• Visiting Professorship, Raine Medical Research Foundation, 2007-2008


• Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, 2006 and 2007


• Senior Member, IEEE, 2005


• University of Illinois Alpha Chapter Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Alumni Award, 2005


• UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Young Alumni Achievement Award, 2005


• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award, 2005


• College of Engineering Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, 2005


• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2004


• College of Engineering Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003


• Technology Review Magazine's Top 100 Young Innovator in the World, 2002


• Xerox Faculty Award for Outstanding Research, 2002


• Whitaker Foundation Fellow, 2001


• Resident Physician Research Award, College of Medicine, UIUC, 2001


• Young Faculty Award, American Association of Anatomists, 2001


• Graduated cum laude, Harvard Medical School, 2000


• Soma Weiss Research Award, Harvard Medical School, 1999


• New Focus, Inc. Student Travel Award, 1998


• American Association of Anatomists Travel Award, 1998


• Coherent Laser Group Conference Travel Award, 1995


• Brooks Air Force Base Outstanding Civilian of the Year Armstrong Laboratory, 1992


• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Outstanding Armstrong Laboratory, 1992


• Armstrong Laboratory Director's Award for Excellence, 1991


• Air Force Scientific Advisory Board's Superior Laboratory at Brooks Air Force Base, 1991


• E. Jordan Award for Bioengineering Research, 1990, Univ. of Illinois


• Senior 100 Honorary, 1990, Univ. of Illinois


• Graduated summa cum laude (Highest Honors), 1990, Univ. of Illinois


• Norman R. Carson Outstanding Junior Electrical Engineer In the United States, 1989


• Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Electrical Engineer, 1989, Univ. of Illinois


• National Society of Professional Engineers Scholar, 1986