Selected as the cover of the issue 9 of Advanced Optical Materials for the paper titled "Disordered nanocomposite islands for nano-speckles illumination microscopy (NanoSIM) in wide-field super-resolution imaging"

Selected as the BEST Outstanding Student Fellow 2019 (BK Program)

Selected as the participant in the EU-Korea Conference (July 12-20, 2019)

Yonsei University Graduate School Best Paper Award for the paper "Metallic 3D random nanocomposite islands for near-field spatial light switching," Advanced Optical Materials, 2018

Selected as the BEST Outstanding Student Fellow 2018 (BK Program)

Spotlight on Optics inclusion for the paper in Optics Letters titled "Surface plasmon microscopy by spatial light switching for label-free imaging with enhanced resolution"

Selected as the participant in the 6th Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS, 21-26 January 2018) supported by the NRF of Korea and Singapore

Selected as the participant in the 10h HOPE Meeting (with Nobel laureates) supported by the NRF of Korea and the JSPS of Japan

IEEE Photonics Society Best Student Paper for the presentation at ACP (Asia Communications and Photonics Conference) 2015, titled "Surface Plasmon Enhanced Microscopy Using Periodic and Aperiodic Nanostructures for Super-resolved Cell Imaging"

Yonsei University Graduate School Best Paper Award for the paper "Nanogap-based dielectric-specific colocalization for highly sensitive surface plasmon resonance detection of biotin-streptavidin interactions," Applied Physics Letters, 2012