2011 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Award (Virginia Tech)
2010 Daniel I.C. Wang Award (Biotechnology and Bioengineering and ACS BIOT)
2009 Sunkist Engineering Designer Award (ASABE)
2008 British Petroleum Young Scientists Award (IBS 2008)
2008 DuPont Young Faculty Award
2008 College of Engineering Outstanding New Faculty Award (Virginia Tech)
2008 Air Force Young Investigator Award (Air Force Of Scientific Research, AFOSR)
2007 American Chemical Society PRF New Faculty Award
2006 Best and Brightest of Esquire Magazine (science and technology and crazy idea)
2006 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
2004 1st Class Award for Advancement of Science & Technology (Ministry of Education, China)
2010 Three selected papers among 25 papers in a virtual issue of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Biomass to Biofuels, June 2010)
2010 Finalist, DOE ARPA-E Electrofuel program
2009-present Journal Editorial Board Member – International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2008 Scholar of the Week by the Office of Research of Virginia Tech (03/31-04/06)
2008-present Journal Editorial Board Member – Biotechnology for Biofuels
2007-present Journal Editorial Board Member – Process Biochemistry
2007 First place faculty award in Environmental Technologies of Virginia Tech Deans’ Forum on Environment
2006 Sun Grant Fellow
2006 Best junior faculty poster at Virginia Tech Deans’ Forum on Energy Security and Sustainability
2003 Poster of Excellence in Gordon Research Conference – Cellulases and Cellulosomes
2003 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Student Travel Grant
1993 Honor undergraduate of ECUST
1990 Award of Shanghai undergraduate physics competition
1989-1993 Special class for the gifted students of ECUST
2004 Biotechnology & Bioengineering (#1, > 350 citations)
2006 Biotechnology Advances (#1, > 250 citations)
2007 Biotechnology & Bioengineering (#1, > 100 citations)
2011 Biotechnology & Bioengineering (#1, 11 citations in 2011 only)
2011 Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2 of top 25), Microbial Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering
2010 Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2 of top 25), BMC Biotechnology, Engineering in Life Sciences
2009 Energy & Environmental Science (top 10), ChemSusChem (top 25), Biotechnology & Bioengineering (3 of the top 25)
2008 Biotechnology & Bioengineering (2 of the top 25)
2007 PLoS One, Biotechnology & Bioengineering (3 of the top 25), Biotechnology Advances
2006 Biotechnology & Bioengineering (2 of the top 25), Biotechnology Advances
2005 Biotechnology & Bioengineering
2004 Biotechnology & Bioengineering
2011 Winner, Climate Leadership Challenge 2011 (Patrick Kirk, David Osmalov, Joseph Keuler, and Matthew Kirk – UW Madison Team, $50,000 cash award)
2010-2013 Joe Rollin, National Defense Science and Technology Graduate Fellow
2010 Semifinalist (Rollin JA), Global Venture Challenge 2010
2009-2011 Hehua Liao, China Scholarship Council
2008-2011 ICTAS Doctoral Scholar – Noppadon (Tik) Sathitsuksanoh
2008-2012 ICTAS Doctoral Scholar – Suwan Myung