Yonsei University Graduate School Best Paper Award for "Nanoislands-based random activation of fluorescence for visualizing endocytotic internalization of adenovirus," Small, 2010

SPIE Student Travel Grant for Optics + Photonics (7759-40)

SPIE Student Travel Grant for Photonics West 2010 (7596-7)

2009 University Intellectual Property (IP)-Ocean Competition (2009 대학 IP오션 공모전) Top Prize (대상)

BK21 (TMS Institute of Information Technology) Best Paper Award, Gold Prize

Seoul Fellowship (Awarded by the City of Seoul)

LG Yonam Graduate Scholarship

LG Yonam Overseas Faculty Research Fellowship (LG Yonam Foundation)

Optical Science and Engineering Scholarship (SPIE)

Newport Spectra Physics Research Excellence Award (SPIE)