text: * 2007 Dreyfus New Faculty Award
  * 2008 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
  * 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  * 2011 Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium
  * 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship
  * 2013 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 
  * 2014 Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship
  * 2011 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow
  * 2017 American Physical Society Fellow
  * 2021 Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
  * 2022 Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Brown Investigator Awards