Grants, Awards & Scholarships

PATHS-UP Seed Fund (ERC, NSF) – Lead Graduate Student Awardee
Project: Soft, reusable electrode interfaces for physiological sensing and transcutaneous electrical stimulation
Award: $5,000 (2025) | Lead Graduate Student with advisor Dr. Limei Tian and collaborators Dr. Tananant Boonya-Ananta, Dr. Jessica Ramella  

Selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2026, Singapore

Top Oral Presentation Award, BME Graduate Student Association Symposium, Texas A&M, Summer 2025

2025 CAS Future Leaders Top 100 – American Chemical Society

 NSF-Sponsored Travel Grant, 2025 Future Faculty Identification Program Workshop, University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2025. 

Full scholarship for Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors, 20th - July 27, 2025, León, Spain.

Research and Presentation Travel Award, Graduate and Professional School, Texas A&M, Spring 2025.

 Outstanding Engineering Doctoral  Graduate Student Award, College of Engineering, Texas A&M, Fall 2024 (1 PhD student across the university)

Best Oral Presentation Award, BME Graduate Student Association Symposium, Texas A&M, Summer 2024

Best Poster Award, Polymer Technology Consortia, Texas A&M, Fall 2024

NSF-Sponsored Travel Grant, Future Faculty Workshop on Soft Matter, University of Minnesota, Summer 2024

Inaugural Outstanding Mentoring Award for Graduate & Professional Students, Graduate and Professional School, Texas A&M, Spring 2024 (3 PhD students across the university) 

Graduate & Professional Student Government Travel Grant, Texas A&M, Spring 2024

Honorable mention- AAAS 2024 Student E-poster Competition in STEM, Spring 2024 

BME Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Texas A&M, Spring 2024

BME Graduate Student Scholarship, Texas A&M, Fall 2023

BME Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Texas A&M, Fall 2022

BME Graduate Student Scholarship, Texas A&M, Fall 2022 

Research Assistantship, Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Texas A&M, Fall 2021- 2025

Teaching Assistantship, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, Spring 2021

Research Assistantship, School of Materials Science and Engineering, GIST, Fall 2018- Fall 2020

South Korean Government Scholarship for pursuing master's degree at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Fall 2018