Awards
- Brevard Family Chair in Civil Engineering (2014-2019).
- Outstanding Engineering Faculty Member of the Year for the Academic Year 2012-2013.
- Senior Faculty Research Award, School of Engineering, University of Mississippi (2012).
- Junior Faculty Research Award, School of Engineering, University of Mississippi (2010).
- NSF Fellowship, Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials, Northwestern University, May 2009.
- Outstanding Engineering Faculty Member of the Year for the Academic Year 2005-2006.
- Faculty Research Fellow by the University of Mississippi’s Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (ORSPs) for the class of 2002.