• AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2017
• NSF Career Award, 2016
• One of the 2 nominees of Harvard University for Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering 2015
• Best Student Paper Award Finalist in 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2011

Student Honors: 

• 06/2017: Master student from ETH Meier Yannick won the Outstanding Master Thesis award, ETH Zurich for his thesis under my supervision.
• 04/2016, PhD student Masoud Badiei received IBM PhD fellowship
• 04/2015, PhD student Ariana Minot received "Runner-up for 1st Place" award in the poster session of AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Research Symposium