2014, Promoted to Full Member of Sigma Xi
2011-2012, ARCS (Achievement Rewards to College Scientists) Scholar
2011, Inducted into professional honor society Sigma Xi as Associate Member
2011, Inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
2011, Summer Graduate Teaching Scholar, UCSD
2009 – 2010, National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 Fellow, UCSD
2006 – 2009, NIH Cellular & Molecular Genetics Grant Recipient, UCSD