Recognition
  • University Cup (2024)
  • Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) (2021)
  • Killam Annual Professorship (2021)
  • Faculty of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award (2021)
  • Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2020)
  • NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (2018)
  • Faculty of Engineering Research Award (2016)
  • Martha Cook Piper Research Prize (2014)
  • Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) (2013 & 2007)
  • First Place, Best Paper Competition, 23rd Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (2011)
  • Early Accomplishment Award, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (2011)
  • Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award (2009)
  • Outstanding Young Adhesion Scientist Award (2009)
  • Distinguished Paper Award at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society (2006)
  • Ta-Chung & Ya-Chao Liu Memorial Award, Cornell University (2005)