* 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