1997 Utah State Governor's Asian American Achievement Award
1996 U.S. Presidential Faculty Fellow. Only 10 engineers and 10 scientists are awarded this honor each year.
1996 U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government.
1995 ONR Young Investigator Award One of only 33 investigators picked from a national list of 409 applicants for the U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award Program
1995 NSF CAREER Award
1994 Elected to be Senior Member in the IEEE Only 8% of the over 320,000 IEEE members hold this grade.
1993 NSF Career Advancement Award
1989 Newport Research Award
1988 Dean's List
1984 Meritorious Teaching Award
1983 Innovation in Teaching Award
1982 Valedictorian of the Graduate Class
1981 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
1980 Presidential Distinguished Student Scholarship