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| Name | Date | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Sui Yang | 2020-11 | Rising Stars of Light 2020 |
| Dr. Haokun Li | 2020-07 | Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Dr. Cheng Gong | 2020-07 | IUPAP Young Scientst Prize in Semiconductor Physics of 2020 |
| Dr. Sui Yang | 2020-07 | Microsystem & Nanoengineering Young Scientist Award |
| Dr. Liang Feng | 2020-02 | 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics |
| Dr. Volker J. Sorger | 2019-07 | 2019 PECASE Award |
| Dr. Liang Feng | 2019-02 | 2019 NSF CAREER Award |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2018-03 | CCB Woodward Departmental Colloquium |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2017-11 | George W. Pearsall Distinguished Lecture |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2016-12 | 2017 A. C. Eringen Medal |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2017-03 | John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecturer |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2017-03 | John and Virginia Towers Distinguished Lecturer |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2016-10 | Distinguished Scientist Award by Chinese Association for Science and Technology USA |
| Jeongmin Kim | 2019-02 | 2019 PicoQuant Young Investigator Award |
| Ying Wang | 2018-04 | MRS Graduate Student Gold Award |
| Chengzhi Shi | 2018-04 | 2017 Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Jun Xiao | 2018-04 | 2017 Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Dr. Xingjie Ni | 2017-11 | NASA Early Career Faculty award |
| Dr. Xiaobo Yin | 2017-11 | Moore Inventor Fellow |
| Dr. Xingjie Ni | 2016-11 | Moore Inventor Fellow |
| Sui Yang | 2017-07 | Reaxys PhD Prize |
| Dr. Maiken Mikkelsen | 2017-02 | ONR YIP award |
| Dr. Maiken Mikkelsen | 2017-01 | SPIE Early Career Achievement Award |
| Dr. Maiken Mikkelsen | 2016-10 | Maria Goeppert Mayer Award |
| Mervin Zhao | 2017-03 | Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award |
| Mervin Zhao | 2016-12 | MRS Graduate Student Silver Award |
| Dr. Yongmin Liu | 2016-11 | SPIE 2017 Rising Researchers |
| Dr. Junsuk Rho | 2016-11 | SPIE 2017 Rising Researchers |
| Dr. Daniel Lanzillotti Kimura | 2016-09 | ERC Starting Grant |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2016-05 | 2016 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics |
| Dr. Tongcang Li | 2016-03 | NSF CAREER |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2016-03 | Max Born Award |
| Dr. Boubacar Kante | 2015-12 | NSF CAREER |
| Dr. Liang Pan | 2015-12 | NSF CAREER |
| Sui Yang | 2015-12 | NKT Photonics Student Award |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2015-11 | ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award |
| Dr. Jie Yao | 2015-11 | NSF CAREER |
| Dr. Xiaodong Yang | 2015-11 | NSF CAREER |
| Dr. Shuang Zhang | 2015-10 | OSA Fellow |
| Zi Jing Wong | 2015-10 | IPC Best Student Paper Award |
| Zi Jing Wong | 2015-10 | Jean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant |
| Zi Jing Wong | 2015-09 | Best Student Paper award, CLEO Pacific Rim 2015 |
| Zi Jing Wong | 2015-09 | Best Student Paper award, Metamaterials Congress 2015 |
| Zi Jing Wong | 2015-08 | Best Student Paper award, SPIE |
| Kevin O'Brien | 2015-08 | Best Over-All Presentation award, NLO 2015 |
| Lin Li | 2015-07 | Second place poster award, Metamaterials Science & Technology Workshop |
| Samantha (Xuexin) Ren | 2015-07 | First place poster award, Metamaterials Science & Technology Workshop |
| Dr. Boubacar Kante | 2015-05 | UCSD 2015-16 Hellman Fellow |
| Sui Yang | 2015-04 | 2014 Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Zi Jing Wong | 2015-04 | MRS Graduate Student Gold Award |
| Dr. Shuang Zhang | 2015-02 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| Dr. Haim Suchowski | 2015-02 | ERC Starting Grant, [1] |
| Dr. Maiken Mikkelsen | 2015-02 | NSF Career Award |
| Dr. Maiken Mikkelsen | 2015-01 | AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program |
| Dr. Ziliang Ye | 2015-01 | 2014 Kavli ENSI Thesis Prize |
| Dr. Hu Cang | 2014-10 | NIH Young Innovator Award |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2013-12 | ASME Fellow |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2014-06 | ASME Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2014-06 | Division Director for Materials Science, LBNL |
| Kevin O'Brien | 2014-06 | Maiman Student Paper Finalist |
| Dr. Hamidreza Ramezani | 2014-03 | "Biruni" 2014 Graduate Student Research Award |
| Dr. Volker Sorger | 2014-01 | AFOSR Award |
| Shaomin Xiong | 2014-01 | 2013 Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Dr. Zhaowei Liu | 2013-08 | 2013 DARPA Young Faculty Award |
| Dr. Sheng Shen | 2013-08 | 2013 DARPA Young Faculty Award |
| Dr. Hu Cang | 2013-06 | Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award |
| Dr. Jun Suk Rho | 2013-06 | Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant |
| Dr. Sheng Shen | 2013-02 | NSF Career Award |
| Dr. Nicholas Fang | 2009 | NSF Career Program Award |
| Sadao Ota | 2009 | Widmer Award at MicroTAS |
| Kevin O'Brien | 2009 | NSF GRFP |
| Chris Gladden | 2008 | NSF GRFP |
| Ze'ev Abrams | 2008 | NDSEG Fellowship |
| Dr. Yongmin Liu | 2008 | SPIE Scholarship |
| Dr. Yuan Wang | 2008 | SPIE Scholarship |
| Dr. Volker Sorger | 2007 | SPIE Scholarship |
| Dr. Volker Sorger | 2007 | Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship |
| Dr. Lee Fok | 2006 | NSF GRFP |
| Dr. Jie Yao | 2006 | Power Award |
| Dr. Jason Valentine | 2006 | Most Outstanding Mechanical Engineer |
| Dr. Zhaowei Liu | 2013-04 | 2013 Young Investigator Award |
| Ziliang Ye | 2013-04 | MRS Graduate Student Gold Award |
| Kedar Hippalgaonkar | 2013-04 | MRS Graduate Student Silver Award |
| David Barth | 2013-04 | NDSEG Fellowship |
| Dr. Nicholas Fang | 2011 | International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize |
| Dr. Shuang Zhang | 2010 | IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics |
| Dr. Rupert Oulton | 2013-03 | Beller Lectureship Recipient |
| Ania Labno | 2013-03 | Raymond Davis Award in Imaging |
| Ziliang Ye | 2013-03 | 2012 Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Dr. Tongcang Li | 2012-12 | Springer Theses Prize and published as a book |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2012-08 | Elected to the Academia Sinica, the national academy of Republic of China |
| Dr. Shuang Zhang | 2010-12 | Top 10 Breakthrough for 2010 by Physics World |
| Dr. Sheng Shen | 2010-10 | Philomathia Foundation Research Fellowships in Alternative Energy |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2010-02 | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering |
| Dr. Jason Valentine | 2010 | MRS Graduate Student Gold Award |
| Daniel Shuldman | 2010 | NSF GRFP and DOE SCGF Fellowships |
| Dr. Cheng Sun | 2010 | NSF CAREER awards |
| Dr. Qihuo Wei | 2010 | NSF CAREER awards |
| Werayut Srituravanich | 2010 | "Distinguished Thesis Award" from National Research Council of Thailand for his PhD thesis research at Prof. Zhang's lab. He is a Lecturer now at Chulalongkorn University, a top university in Thailand. |
| XLab | 2010 | EFRC (Energy Frontier Research Center) funded by US Department of Energy for developing novel technologies for high efficiency energy conversion. The $15M project brings together researchers from Berkeley, Caltech and UIUC. |
| Dr. Zhaowei Liu | 2010 | 2010 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award and UCSD Hellman Faculty Fellow Award. |
| Dr. Boubacar Kante | 2011-01 | Prix Richelieu de la Chancellerie des universites de Paris 2010 in science for his PhD work on metamaterials |
| Dr. Volker J. Sorger | 2011-03 | 2010 USAC-ICO Student Best Paper Award. |
| Dr. Jia Zhu | 2011-03 | ACS DIC Young Investigator Symposium Award |
| Dr. Volker J. Sorger | 2011-04 | MRS Graduate Student Gold Award |
| Dr. Maiken H. Mikkelsen | 2011-04 | 2011 European Physical Society PhD Thesis Prize |
| Prof. Xiang Zhang | 2011-04 | 2011 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience |
| Dr. Ming Liu | 2011-05 | 2011 Award for Chinese Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad |
| Jun Suk Rho | 2011-05 | 2011 SPIE Scholarship |
| Dr. Cheng Sun | 2011-06 | Chao Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award |
| Dr. Ze'ev Abrams | 2011-06 | Best Poster Award at the 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference |
| Jun Suk Rho | 2011-08 | 2011 Korean Honor Scholarship |
| Dr. Daniel L. Kimura | 2011-10 | 2011 International Photoacoustic and Photothermal Association (IPPA) Junior Prize |
| Dr. Xiaodong Yang | 2012-04 | 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award |
| Jun Suk Rho | 2012-04 | MRS Graduate Student Silver Award |
| Jun Suk Rho | 2012-06 | 2012 SPIE Scholarship and Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association Scholarship |