- Received the Presidential Early Career Achievement (PECASE) Award from the White House in 1996. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Only-ever award recipient outside academia or research laboratories. Received a grant of $500,000 for 5 years to conduct research on High Temperature Superconductivity in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force.
- Named as Superconductor Industry Person of Year for 2004 by Superconductor Week, chosen by a panel of world-renowned experts on Superconductivity. This award is given for achievement in science & technology, advocacy in institutions, government, or industry, leadership/vision that assisted others in the advancement of the technology, and promotion of the technology. This award has been made to only 6 recipients including two CEOs, and the Deputy Director General of the Japanese Superconductivity program.
- Named as one of New York Capital Region's top forty business leaders under the age of forty in 2004 by the Business Review magazine (in a competitive selection process).
- Resolution passed by the Schenectady County Legislature on June 14, 2005, acknowledging accomplishments in 2004 - 2005.
- R&D 100 awards in 2007, 2010 and 2012 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Two Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards in 2008 with Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories
- Wire and Cable Technology International Award in 2009 for the development and transition to manufacturing of second generation HTS wire technology.
- Led organization to a ranking of #1 or #2 for eight years since 2002 among all technology developers in the U.S. by an independent Peer review panel under the auspices of the U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Delivery. #1 ranking in most recent Peer reviews (2010 and 2009) among 14 contenders.
- Senior Researcher Award in College of Engineering, 2012
- Entrepreneur/Innovation Award of the Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston in 2013. This award recognizes alumni who have accepted a high level of risk to pursue an opportunity in an enterprise or venture to introduce new technologies into the workplace that increased efficiency and productivity in the generation of new products.
- Chosen by Houston Chronicle as one of “11 of the greater Houston area's top scientific minds” to author articles on 11 promising technologies for the coming years
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION