2016 Early Career Researcher Distinguished Lecture in Interdisciplinary Geosciences
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 13th Annual Meeting, Beijing, China

2011-2012

Faculty of Engineering Teaching Commendation List Award
National University of Singapore (NUS)
2011 NUS Sports Awards – Supportive Staff Award
An award from NUS to staff who “have provided support, encouragement and assistance to student-athletes”
2003-2006 Stanford Graduate Fellowship
An award from Stanford University to “outstanding students pursuing a doctoral degree in the sciences and engineering”
2003 Carroll Phillips Bassett Prize
An award from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Lafayette College to “a final-year student who is deemed most outstanding”
2002 Russel C. Brinker Prize in Civil Engineering
An award from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Lafayette College to “a third-year student who is deemed most deserving on the basis of self-reliance, scholarship, and student activities”