Rising Star Award from the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL)

President of the USF Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (2024). As a President prepared and submitted application for the NAI 2024 Chapter of Excellence Award and the Chapter was chosen as one of the four finalists.

Secretary of the USF Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (2023)

Executive member of the USF Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (2022)

Senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (June 14th 2022)

Optofluidic research is featured in Advances in Engineering (https://advanceseng.com/) (2021)

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical included our publication “Design of an optofluidic sensor for rapid detection of hemolysis” to be featured in their edition of Research Insights which appears both online and in nationally syndicated publications (2019)

Elsevier chose a paper about Mobile ELISA among thousands of papers for international news coverage (2018)

Invited to exhibit Hemolix technology at Cade museum (2018)

Research was featured on Science Updates (AAAS radio) (2017)

Award from the ADVANCE Florida Network Women in STEM Scholars (AFN-WISE) (2017)

Invited Technology Showcase Participant in the US Congress (2017)

Invited Showcase Participant in the National Academy of Sciences Convocation on "Revitalizing the University-Industry-Government Partnership" (2017)

Invited Participant in the APLU/AAU University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Showcase (2017)

University of South Florida Excellence in Innovation Award (2017)

Inducted to the National Academy of Inventors (2016)

Best paper award at IEEE Sensors conference (2016)

NASSHP Young Investigator Award (2015)

Finalist of the Vodafone Americas Foundation Annual Wireless Innovation Project (2015)

Finalist of the XPRIZE Nokia Sensing Xchallenge (2014)

Semi-finalist of the SPIE Challenge (2014)

New Researcher Grant (NRG) Award (2014)

Research highlighted in Science (2014)

Winners of the 2013 NSF/Science International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (2014)

Global Center for Hearing & Speech Research- GCHSR Research Grant (2013)

NSF Computing Innovation Fellow (2009, 2010), US $270,000 for two years

Microsoft Research Fellow (2007, 2008), US $100,000 for two years

Society of Women Engineers' Outstanding Female Award (2007)

University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering Chair's award (2006)

SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering four times in a row (2006, 2005, 2004, 2003), US $12,000

Nanotechnology UIF Graduate Research award for 2004-05 for the research titled "Novel wavelength selective switch based on new electro-optical materials and nano-fabrication technique", US $50,000

Electrical Engineering Young Innovator Fellowship (2003), US $50,000

Clarendon Fund Award to support graduate study (3 years) at Oxford, UK

Student support of the attendance of CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2003 in Munich (2003)

Travel Grant of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (2003, 2000)

Scholarship of Holographic school of Denisyuk (2002)

Student Travel Grant of SPIE (2002, 2000)

Diploma for the best scientific student paper from the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation (2001)

Stipend of the President of Russian Federation (2001)

Winner of Saint-Petersburg grant competition for undergraduate and graduate students, young scientists and specialists (2000)