Awards

Earned 8 awards and 2 scholarships during PhD and 4 awards during Postdoc

2019 Finalist in the Asian Deans’ Forum “Rising Starts Women in Engineering”

2019 MGH Research Institute Postdoctoral division Travel Award ($1,000)

2018 Poster Award (Honorable mention), MGH Research Fellow Poster                     

2018 Poster Award (1st Place, Travel Grant $1,000), MGH Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting                        

2017 Masoumeh Ghaderi Prize for Best Sound-Bite Presentation (1st Place, $1,000), 5th Annual Workshop on Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Medicine: Emerging Frontiers and Applications

2016 DSM Science & Technology Award (Finalist), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting

2016 Poster Award (2^nd place), MIT Polymer Day Symposium

2015 MRS Poster Award Winner (1st place), MRS Fall meeting

2015 Best Presentation of Biomaterials I session, AIChE Annual Meeting 

2015 Poster Award (Honorable mention), MIT Polymer Day Symposium   

2014 Poster Award (3^rd place, Travel Grant $1,000), MIT BioMAN & CASSS Summit     

2014 KSEA-KUSCO Graduate Scholarship ($2,500), Korean-American Science Engineering Association (KSEA) & Korea-US Science Cooperation Center (KUSCO)

2014 Golden Beaver Student Leader Award, MIT Student Activities Office      

2013 Poster Award (3^rd place), MIT Sloan Healthcare & Bioinnovations Conference  

2013 Poster Award (3^rd place), MIT ChemE Practice School Annual Meeting 

2013 Graduate Scholarship ($10,000), Mokam Life Science Research Center, Green Cross Holding Corp. 

2010 Merrill Presidential Scholarship, Cornell University           

2010 College Name Banner Bearer for the 142^th commencement, Cornell University

2009 Summer research fellowship, Intel Corporation and Cisco, Cornell University