Honors

• 2020, SNMMI JNM Best Paper Award, USA, “High-Resolution Depth-Encoding PET Detector Module with Prismatoid Light-Guide Array,” J Nucl Med 2020; 61:1528–1533
• 2019,  Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant, USA
• 2018, Young Academic Inventor’s Award, National Academy of Inventors (SBU chapter), USA
• 2016, 1^st place (cum laude) poster presentation award, SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, USA
• 2014-2016, Post-doctoral Fellowship (PDF), NSERC, Canada
• 2014, 1^st place oral presentation award, Young Research Symposium, BNL, USA
• 2013, Best paper award, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Seoul, Korea
• 2010, Nano-fellowship, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
• 2009, Graduate student scholarship, ECE Dept., University of Waterloo, Canada
• 2009, Honorable mention poster award, SPIE medical imaging conference, San Diego, CA
• 2008-2010, Alexander Graham Bell Canada graduate scholarship doctoral, NSERC, Canada
• 2008-2010, President’s graduate scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada.
• 2008-2009, Ontario graduate scholarship, OSAP, Canada
• 2008, 2^nd prize, Imagine imaging poser competition, University of Waterloo, Canada
• 2006, 1^st prize, SMC industrial collaboration award, TEXPO research exhibition, Canada
• 2006-2007, Postgraduate scholarship masters, NSERC, Canada
• 2006, Honorable mention poster award, SPIE medical imaging conference, San Diego, CA
• 2005-2006, Undergraduate student research award, NSERC, Canada