Professional Awards

University of Rhode Island Excellence Award, Intellectual Property, 2014
University of Rhode Island Diversity Award, 2012
University of Rhode Island Outstanding Intellectual Property, 2011, 2013
Workshop on Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONOEP) travel award, 2009
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Miami, 2002
Gates Millennium Scholarship, 2000-2002
National Institutes of Health Minority Predoctoral Fellowship, 1994-1999
Miami Project To Cure Paralysis Research Assistantship, 1994-1997
American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship, 1994-1997, 1998-1999, 2000-2001
A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship, 1998-1999, 2000-2002
AISES EPA Scholarship, 1999-2000
2nd Place, University of Miami Research & Creativity Forum, 1998

Student Awards

Habib Lawel, University of Rhode Island Student Research Award 2nd Place, 2014
Rebekah Wigton, University of Rhode Island Student Research Award, 2009
Hongbao Cao, Outstanding BME senior Ph.D. graduate student, LA Tech University, 2007
Ting Chen, 1st place student competition, IEEE EMBS Annual Conference, Houston, TX, 2007
Fei Zhu, Outstanding BME Junior Ph.D. graduate student, LA Tech University, 2006
Ashwini Prasad, Outstanding BME M.S. Graduate Student, LA Tech University, 2006
Kanthaiah Koka, Outstanding BME Graduate Student, LA Tech University, 2005