Dr. Li’s Awards & Honors

Early Career Awards & Fellowship

1. Beckman Young Investigator Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, 2018
2. Young Investigator Award, Army Research Office, 2017
3. Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, 2015
4. Miller Research Fellowship, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, UC Berkeley, 2012

Paper Awards

5. Best Student Paper Finalists (5 times), Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Division of Comparative Biomechanics
   • 2023: 2 submissions selected; 2019: 1 submission selected; 2018: 2 submissions selected
6. Outstanding Locomotion Paper Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022
7. Editor’s Choice Paper, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022
8. Best Paper, Advanced Robotics, 2018
9. Highlight Paper, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016
10. Highlight Paper, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, selected for presentation of outstanding new research, receipt of the highest praise from our international referees and the largest number of downloads last year, 2016
11. Best Student Paper, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, 2012
12. Best Student Paper, Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Division of Comparative Biomechanics, 2009

Miscellaneous

13. [email protected] Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2021
14. Trusted Reviewer, Institute of Physics, for exceptionally high peer review competency and ability to constructively critique scientific literature to an exceptional standard, 2021
15. Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2019
16. Catalyst Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2019
17. Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012
18. Gil Amelio Fellowship for Excellence in Research, Georgia Tech School of Physics, 2009
19. First Place Oral Presentation, Georgia Tech Graduate Research Symposium, 2009
20. Award for Academic Excellence, Peking University, 2004

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Research Mentee Awards

Graduate students

1. Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Finalist (Ratan Othayoth), 2022
2. Outstanding Locomotion Paper Finalist (Jonathan Mi & Yaqing Wang), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022
3. Best Student Paper Finalists (five times), Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Division of Comparative Biomechanics
   • 2023: Divya Ramesh, Gargi Sadalgekar; 2019: Ratan Othayoth; 2018: Ratan Othayoth, Yuanfeng Han

Undergraduate students

4. Summer Scholar (Zhiyi Ren), CMU Robotics Institute, 2018
5. First Place, NSF REU Research Presentation (Jonathan Mi), JHU LCSR, 2021
6. NSF REU (five students), JHU LCSR, 2023
   • 2023: Shruthika Kandukuri; 2022: Arturo Gamboa-Gonzalez; 2021: Jonathan Mi; 2020: Ryan Utz; 2018: Tim Greco; 2017: Blake Strebel
7. Bell Award (four students), for outstanding research and scholarly achievement, JHU ME
   • 2023: Yu Xiao; 2022: Jack Rao; 2021: Kaiwen Wang; 2018: Zhiyu Ren
8. Gerstmyer Award(four students), for outstanding undergraduate achievement, JHU ME
   • 2022: Yu Xiao; 2020: Kaiwen Wang; 2019: Zhiyi Ren; 2018: Huidong Gao

High school students

9. Third Place in the Physical Sciences, Honorable Mention (Evains Francois), Baltimore Science Fair, 2018

––Before JHU––

1. Franklin Henry Award (Han Lam), for outstanding achievement by an undergraduate in human performance and health research, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (1 award out of 60), 2015
2. Qualcomm Undergraduate Experiences in Science & Technology Scholarship (Casey Duckering), College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
3. Research Experience for Undergraduates Scholarship (Armita Manafzadeh), National Science Foundation, 2014
4. Best Student Paper (Feifei Qian, Tingnan Zhang), Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (1 per year), 2012