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