2015 Kavli fellow nominated by the National Academy of Sciences

2014 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Careers at the Scientific Interface award

2014 Retina Research Foundation travel award

2013 Fight for Sight postdoctoral award

2012 Outstanding dissertation award, Engineering and Applied sciences, University of Rochester

2012 Founders’ award for best invited presentation, Wavefront Congress

2011 Edmund Optics higher education grant finalist

2007 Photonics Technology Access Program grant for research devices sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency