Awards and Honors

1. Selected into the National Academy of Inventors (2016).
2. Selected to present the William Mong Distinguished Lecture, University of Hong Kong (2016).
3. Selected to present the Hermann Anton Haus endowed lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015).
4. Mentoring Award, Purdue University College of Engineering, Faculty Awards of Excellence (2014).
5. Purdue University Herbert Newby Mccoy Award (2013) - presented annually to a Purdue student or faculty member for outstanding contributions to the natural sciences
6. IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award (2011).
7. National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship from U.S. Department of Defense (2009).
8. Purdue University Provost's Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award (2008).
9. Optical Society of America R. W. Wood Prize (2008, joint with J. P. Heritage).
10. Selected into the National Academy of Engineering (February 2008).
11. Finalist, best student paper award, 2007 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting (with advisee C.-B. Huang)
12. Inaugural recipient of Research Excellence Awards, School of Engineering, Purdue University (2003).
13. Named Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University (2002).
14. Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (2000).
15. IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award (1999).
16. International Commission for Optics Prize (1997).
17. ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award (1997).
18. Fellow, IEEE (1995).
19. Fellow, Optical Society of America (1990).
20. 1990 Adolph Lomb Award of the Optical Society of America, awarded for noteworthy contributions to optics made before reaching the age of 30.
21. 1988-1989 IEEE Laser and Electro-optics Society Traveling Lecturer.
22. Recognition by Popular Science for one of the "Top 100 Inventions of 1988" (the 100-fsec all-optical switch).
23. Bellcore Award of Excellence (October 1988).
24. Outstanding poster paper at the 1987 Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Lasers, Wolfeboro, NH, July 27-31, 1987.
25. Great American Family Award, presented at the White House, June 1986.
26. Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize (1984).
27. Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1979-1984).