Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Young Researcher Award at the 2025 25th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS 2025), Songdo ConvensiA, Incheon, Korea, November 4-7, 2025, for the talk: “Wearables and Robots for Aging Population”

• Best Student Paper award (PhD student Jirui Fu) 2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), Guilin, Guangxi, China, 2022 (Aug 2022)

• Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award (Ladda Thiamwong, Jeffrey Stout, Joon-Hyuk Park, Xin Yan), US National Academy of Medicine / National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (Oct 2020)

• National Academy of Science Fellowship – Research Associateship Program (NRC-RAP) awarded to postdocs to promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U.S. government at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions (Aug 22, 2016 to Aug 21, 2019)

• Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at the 39th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (ASME/IDETC), for the paper: “Wearable upper body suit for assisting human load carriage” (Apr 4, 2015)

• NASA Graduate Fellowship awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement as a graduate fellow (NASA/DESGC Grant NNX10AN63H)