Yonsei University Graduate School Best Paper Award for "Localized surface plasmon based super resolution imaging technique with nanostructures," Ph. D. Dissertation, 2012

Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition Finalist (FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine), OSA Frontiers in Optics 2012, and winner

Excellence Award for Lecture about Management and Revolution of IT Technology, LG Electronics

Korea Association of University Women Scholarship

SPIE Student Travel Grant for Photonics West 2012 (8234-22)

HiSeoul Fellowship (Awarded by the City of Seoul)

Optical Design and Engineering Scholarship (SPIE)

Leap research (도약연구) program (formerly known as "National Research Laboratory") from the National Research Foundation of Korea for five years

Graduate Departmental Scholarship, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University

Newport Spectra Physics SPIE Student Travel Grant for Photonics West 2011