Honors and Awards:
Chair of the United State Advisory Committee /ICO – The National Academies (Sciences and Engineering) 1/2008-12/2010.
The Electromagnetics Academy – Awarded Fellow (2014)
Vice President International Commission for Optics (ICO) [2005-2008; 2008-2010]
Member of U.S. Liaison Committee/International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (USLC/IUPAP) (6/2019 – 12/31,2010).
Awarded Sir Pao Yu-Kong (Honorary)Chair Professorship by Zhejiang University, China (2014-2018)
2003 Sturgeon Memorial Plenary Lecturer, Cambridge University [British Liquid Crystal
Society]
Vice President –Technical Affairs, IEEE –Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (2001 -2004)
Awarded Distinguished Professorship – Pennsylvania State University (2000-2006)
UK Institute of Physics (Inst. P) – Awarded Fellow (1999)
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society – Elected Fellow (1998)
Pennsylvania State Engineering Society-Premier Research Award (1995)
Penn State Research Foundation Invention Incentive Awards (1994, 1995)
Appointed Laser Specialist by World Bank to evaluate Key Universities in China (1990)
Pennsylvania State University – 1988 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in
Physical Science and Engineering
Optical Society of America – Elected Fellow (1988)
Pennsylvania State Engineering Society- Outstanding Research Faculty Award (1987)
Research Corporation Cottrell Research Award (1981)