The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Functional Materials Division (FMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award, 2022

MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, TR35 China, 2021

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer Award, 2021

The Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, 2021

Second Place in the Ben Franklin TechCelerator Pitch for our work on “Fabrication of Functional Circuits”, 2021

RemPlex Global Summit Best Presentation Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), 2021

Finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021 in Engineering and Technology, 2021

Invited Participant, the eighth Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2021

Invitee to attend the 4th World Laureates Forum, 2021

Panel Fellow in the 2021 cohort of NSF CMMI’s Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (CGCA)

Scialog Fellow in Advancing BioImaging, 2021

Frontiers of Materials Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 2021

First Place in the Ben Franklin TechCelerator Pitch for our work on “Deformable Rectennas”, 2020

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 2020

Doctoral New Investigator, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, 2018

Forbes 30 Under 30 2017 in Science, 2017

Elected member of Global Young Academy (honors outstanding early-career scientists from around the world, 5-year term, membership capped at 200), 2016-2021

Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professorship at Penn State, 2015-2018

Howard Hughes Medical Institute  International Student Research Fellow, 2013-2015

First Place in AMD Student Paper Competition, 2015

Haythornthwaite Foundation Travel Award, 2014/2013/2012

Presidential Fellowship Finalist at Northwestern, 2014

Engineering and Health Center Fellowship at Northwestern, 2013

Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad, 2013

International Institute for Nanotechnology Outstanding Researcher Award, 2012

Martin Outstanding Graduate Fellow at Northwestern, 2012

Student Presentation Award at SES, 2012

Fellow of Northwestern Predictive Science & Engineering Design Cluster, 2011

NSF Fellowship for Energy Manufacturing Summer Institute, 2011

Walter P. Murphy Fellowship at Northwestern University, 2010

Undergraduate Visiting Researcher Fellowship at Stanford University, 2009

National Scholarship (and National Inspirational Scholarship) in China, 2009/2008/2007

Selected to the Scientific and Technological Innovation Program at Tsinghua, 2007

First Prize in National Math Olympiad, Second Prize in National Math/ Chemistry/ Information/Biology Olympiad, Third Prize in National Biology/Physics Olympiad in China, 2005/2004

The 5th Soong Ching Ling Scholarship, 2002