 He is a recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Barack Obama, the highest honor given by the US government for early career investigators.In 2007, he was named a TR35 recipient by the Technology Review Magazine as one of the world’s top young innovators.In 2011, he received the Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his contribution to microscale tissue engineering and microfluidics.