Award and honors

• Computing Innovation Fellow (2009, 2010)
• Microsoft Research Fellow (2007, 2008)
• Society of Women Engineers' Outstanding Female Award (2007)
• Department of Electrical Engineering Chair's award (2006)
• SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering four times in a row (2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
• Nanotechnology UIF Graduate Research award for 2004-05 for the research titled "Novel wavelength selective switch based on new electro-optical materials and nano-fabrication technique"
• Electrical Engineering Young Innovator Fellowship (2003)
• Clarendon Fund Award to support graduate study (3 years) at Oxford, UK
• Student support of the attendance of CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2003 in Munich (2003)
• Travel Grant of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (2003, 2000)
• Scholarship of Holographic school of Denisyuk (2002)
• Student Travel Grant of SPIE (2002, 2000)
• Diploma for the best scientific student paper from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (2001)
• Stipend of the President of the Russian Federation (2001)
• Winner of Saint-Petersburg grant competition for undergraduate and graduate students, young scientists and specialists (2000)
• Winner of International Soros Science Education Program in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 4 years in a row
• Winner of Russian national Mathematics Olympiad organized by George Soros (1997)