PI FACULTY AWARDS:

1. Micron Corporation Early Career Award.

2. CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in Quantum Materials.

3. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, ENG-CMMI, 2022.

4. Society of Hellman Fellows, 2021-22.

5. SK Hynix Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering.

6. 2021 Nanotechnology Young Investigator Awardee.

7. Named “Four rising stars who are reshaping nanoscience” by Nature [Nature 608, S12-S13 (2022)].

8. Named 100 More Inspiring Black Scientists in America by Cell Press.

PI POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS:

9. 2018 Nottingham Prize Finalist.

10. 2017 Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – California Institute of Technology.

11. 2017 National Science Foundation AGEP Fellow – California Institute of Technology.

12. 2017 Kavli Prize Postdoc Fellow in Nanoscience – Cornell University (declined offer).

PI DOCTORAL AWARDS:

13. 2017 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award.

14. 2017 Electrochemical Society Summer Fellowship.

15. 2017 Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Sciences.

16. 2017 PSU Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Medal.

17. 2017 EU Graphene Flagship – 1st place Best Summer School Poster Award.

18. 2016 MRS Graduate Student Gold Award, Materials Research Society, Fall 2016.

19. 2016 ICCGE-18 International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Young Scientist Award.

20. 16th International School on Crystal Growth 1st Place Excellent Poster Award, Japan.

21. 2016 Robert E. Newnham Award for Research Excellence.

22. 3M Graduate Fellowship in Materials Science and Engineering, 2015-2017.

23. 42nd Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces Conference Young Scientist.

24. Alfred P. Sloan Scholar, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Awarded April 2014.

25. Bunton Waller Graduate Award, College of EMS, The Pennsylvania State University.

26. 2015 Graduate School Exhibition, 2nd place in Physical Sciences & Mathematics.

PI UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:

27. Jean Shollenberger Beaver Graduate Travel Awards.

28. 2011 P. B. Breneman Best Design in Research Award.

29. David & Rena Miller International Summer Scholarship.

30. IEST Park Espenschade Memorial Scholarship.

31. Jean Kearns Mcnitt Scholarship in Engineering Science.