2025 — The Vidyasagar Award given at the 14th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Sensor Network (CCSN 2025).

2024 — IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials) Scientist Medal in recognition of outstanding contributions to advanced materials science and technology.

2024 — Elected as foreign honorable member of the Serbian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences (SANS).

2024 — Fellow of Industry Academy within the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA).

2024 — SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics for significant contributions to the field of diffractive optics and holography, particularly in super-resolved imaging and imaging through scattering media.

2023 — SPIE - 2023 Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology in recognition of key contributions to the invention of a laser-based, remote, nano-vibrations sensor with primary applications in biomedical sensing and diagnostics.

2023 — Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Excellence Award for Research recognizing leading scientists for outstanding research in fields related to material science and nanotechnology.

2023 — German Berthold Leibinger innovation prize in applied laser technologies. Received together with Javier Garcia for the development work in applied laser technology entitled “Laser based remote bio-sensing and diagnosis of cardio-pulmonary diseases,” Ditzingen, Germany.

2023 — IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) 2023 Laser Instrumentation Award. Received together with Javier Garcia for "eminent impact to the field of laser based enhanced remote bio-sensing and its usage for photonic medical diagnosis."

2022–2026 — Overseas Academic Expert of International Academic Platform for Opto-electronics Perception Science and Technology under Complex Environment, Xian, China.

2022 — German Innovation Awards 2022 for the co-invention of disposable micro-endoscopy technology which was commercialized to Z square startup company.

2022 — Meitner Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis). Humboldt research prize winner for doing research visit at FAU, Erlangen, Germany.

2022 — Elected Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.

2021 — AIMBE Fellow Award. Selected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

2021 — Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, given by OSA for significant contributions to the field of optical super-resolution including the invention of many novel concepts bypassing Abbe’s limits of diffraction and the geometric limits set by the sensor.

2021 — Lotfi Zadeh Memorial Award conferred on Micro2021 conference, May 2021.

2021 — E&T Innovation Award Winner. The work entitled “Contact free bio-sensing and diagnosis," which I co-invented, was the winner in the Future Unicorn category of Engineering and Technology (E&T) Innovation Award of 2021.

2021 — CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree for Zsquare which I have co-founded and which developed a cost effective, high performance, single-use endoscopes.

2020 — Edison Award (Silver prize) for co-inventing the super-resolving and minimally invasive micro-endoscope technology being developed by Z square.

2020 — Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM, Sweden) Award.

2020 — IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award.

2020 — Red Dot Award: Design Concept awarded to high-performance single-use endoscopy. Was awarded with a seal of distinction that acknowledges the co-inventing of the super-resolving and minimally invasive micro-endoscope technology being developed at Z square.

2020 — VEBLEO Scientist Award. This award is for outstanding researchers at a mid-stage in their career, who are leaders in their field.

2019 — Chinese President's International Fellowship Initiative (PiFi) Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for senior visiting scientists.

2019 — Amity Best Researcher Award for my contribution in the field of Communication given at the International Conference on Automation, Computational & Technology Management (ICACTM-2019) organized by IEEE and held in London (UK), April 2019.

2019 — Rector Prize for Scientific Innovation given by the Rector of Bar Ilan University.

2019 — Fellow of the ASLMS (American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery).

2019 — Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Award.

2018 — The Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional – Young Investigator Award given by the ASLMS (American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery).

2018 — The Asian Advanced Materials Award for the year 2018 given by IAAM in their congress in Singapore for my outstanding contribution in the field of "Advanced Materials and Technology".

2018 — National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow Award for demonstrating a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.

2018 — 2018 BIG Innovation Award. The technology I have co-invented and took part in developing and which was commercialized from my lab to a startup company Z square (micro endoscopy) won the 2018 BIG (Business Intelligence Group) Innovation Award.

2018 — SPIE Prism Award for photonic innovation for co-inventing the remote laser based continues bio-monitoring and authentication technology being developed by ContinUse Biometrics.

2018 — Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Society Fellow Award for contribution in the fields of optical imaging and microscopy.

2018 — Best Lecturer Prize in the International ChipEx 2018 conference.

2017 — SPIE Startup Challenge Winner Prize (22 out of few hundreds of entries moved to semi-finals and 6 were selected for the finals and we have received the second place prize) for our project of tactile cornea stimulation allowing functionality to blind people (named as IC Touch).

2017 — The technology I co-invented and took part in developing, for remote biometrics monitoring which was commercialized to ContinUse Biometrcis received the 2017 Europe Technology Innovation Leadership Award for the contactless biometric authentication market given by Frost & Sullivan.

2017 — Global Innovation Award given by TechConnect World Innovation Summit & Expo for our Hand Free Bio-Sensing Technology which I co-invented and took part in developing.

2017 — IAAM Scientist Medal Award for 2017 given by the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) in their European congress due to notable and outstanding contribution in the field of "Advanced Materials Science and Technology".

2017 — The Winner of the Photonics Award (1st place) at Startup World, Munich, Germany with our solution for hand held remote and contactless bio-sensing technology (ContinUse Biometrics).

2017 — Prize4Life 2nd ALS Assistive Techn121ology Competition Award Winner (2nd place).

2016–2022 — Guest Professorship Fellowship at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada (Adjunct Professor).

2016 — Fellow of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Award.

2016 — ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia) Professorship Program Winner Award.

2016 — Serial Innovator Award given by the International Wearable Technologies (WT) Innovation World Cup of 2015.

2016 — Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) Award (FInstP).

2015 — Image Engineering Innovation Award of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for the invention of the Kinect as breaking through 3-D sensing technology and product.

2015 — 2015 Outstanding Young Scientist Award (OYSA) of NANOSMAT for significant contributions in the fields of nano-photonics, nano-technology and nano-materials involving the usage of nanoparticles for biomedical imaging, sensing and for nano devices, as well as for professional career achievements.

2015 — Fellow of the Nanosmat Society (FNS) Award.

2014 — Best paper award for paper presented in the 2013 Information Optics Workshop (WIO2013) entitled "Image Processing for Super-Resolution Localization in Fluorescence Microscopy,”

2014 — First place winner of the ICIS’2014 startup competition with the Opto-Care technology (biomedical multifunctional monitoring bracelet) and second place in the ICIS’2014 startup competition with IC-Touch technology (the cornea tactile stimulation contact lens for blind).

2014 — OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award. Selected by the Editors-in-Chief of OSA. Those are the core publications from scores of nominations by OSA Topical and Associate Editors. This award is intended to publically recognize the indispensable contribution to the success and stature of OSA’s journal publishing program.

2014 — Fellow of EOS (European Optical Society) Award.

2012 — Fellow of OSA (the optical society of America) Award.

2012 — Young investigator prize in nanoscience and nanotechnology given by the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative (INNI) together with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor.

2012 — Selected to be IEEE Senior Member.

2012 — Winner of The International Wearable Technologies (WT) Innovation World Cup 2012 Prize for the invention of the “Opto-Phone”: a continuous biomedical monitoring technology (was chosen to be the winner out of more than 300 entries from all around the world).

2011 — The international SAOT (School for Advanced Optical Technologies) young researcher prize for pioneering contributions in the development of optical techniques for enhanced imaging resolution and its use for biomedical applications (this prize is annually awarded by the German federal and state governments through the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). The prize comes together with 4 years long Visiting Professorship in Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

2011 — Lean and Maria Taubenblatt prize for excellence in medical research for the development of a “Multi-functional bio-medical micro probe”.

2011 — Best paper award for paper presented in the 2011 Information Optics Workshop (WIO2011) entitled "Geometrical super resolved lensless imaging".

2010 — Fellow of SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics) Award.

2009 — Juludan prize for advancing technology in medicine. Given for developing extended depth of focus contact lenses to correct presbyopia.

2009 — Second place award (1 out of 4 finalists) of the international Bepi Colombo prize for transferring innovation into applications.

2008 — ICO (International Commission of Optics) prize and Abbe's medal for significant contribution in the field of optical super resolution.

2007 — Krill prize from the Wolf foundation (Wolf prize for young scientists).

1995–1996 — Eshkol fellowship awarded by the Israeli ministry of science for PhD students.

1994 — Wolf award for research students.

1990 — Dean's prize for outstanding undergraduate studies achievements.

2018

• National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow Award.

• SPIE Prism Award for photonic innovation (remote laser-based continuous bio-monitoring).

• Asian Advanced Materials Award (IAAM).

• BIG Innovation Award (Zsquare micro-endoscopy).

• MedTech Innovator’s Top 50 Companies (ContinUse Biometrics).

• Startup Cognifiber entered Intel startups accelerator program.

• Startup Fibrixense accepted to Design Terminal Accelerator, Hungary.

• Technology “Nano Drops” chosen among 35 ways Israel inspired the world in 2018.

• Best Research Work Award, Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research.

• IIRSI Gold Medal Award (India).

• Allied Health member of SAGES.

• Technology selected to Top 100 Science Spinoffs (ContinUse Biometrics).

• NWO Visitors Travel Award to Eindhoven Univ. of Technology.

2017

• SPIE Startup Challenge Winner Prize (IC Touch project).

• Europe Technology Innovation Leadership Award (ContinUse Biometrics).

• Global Innovation Award, TechConnect Summit (Hand Free Bio-Sensing).

• IAAM Scientist Medal Award.

• Photonics Award, Startup World Munich (ContinUse Biometrics).

• Prize4Life 2nd ALS Assistive Technology Competition (2nd place).

• Selected by Marquis Who’s Who for Lifetime Award.

• IHEL Award for homeland security research (remote detection of tunnels).

• UK-Israel Science Lectureship Award, Univ. of St. Andrews.

• Appreciation trophy for plenary speakers, ICAOP-2017, India.

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry.

2016

• Fellow of IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology).

• Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP).

• Serial Innovator Award (WT Innovation World Cup 2015).

• ICO Traveling Lecture Award, Uzbekistan.

• Tubitak Bideb 2221 Fellowship, Turkey.

• Erasmus+ Actions Fellowship, Univ. of Valencia.

• SPIE Startup Challenge Semi-Finalist (FabriXense).

• BOLEO startup competition finalist, Jerusalem.

• Finalist, Geektime CTO of the year.

• German Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize nominee.

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry.

2015

• Image Engineering Innovation Award (Kinect).

• Outstanding Young Scientist Award (NANOSMAT).

• Fellow of NANOSMAT Society.

• SPIE Startup Challenge Finalist (glucose monitoring project).

• Forbes: IC-Touch among 12 most promising Israeli technologies.

• Israel Top 5 Tech Inventions: Optical heartbeat monitor.

• Certificate of appreciation, Biomedical Optics journal reviewer.

• SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program (India, China, Poland, Ukraine, Switzerland).

• Geektime Conference finalist (ContinUse Biometrics).

• ENATRANS EU consortium selection (endoscope project).

• Israel-EU HAMSA Award (Marie Curie grant, Yair Rivenson).

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry.

2014

• OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award.

• Fellow of EOS (European Optical Society).

• Best paper award (Information Optics Workshop 2013).

• ICIS Startup Competition: 1st place Opto-Care, 2nd place IC-Touch.

• OSA Fellow Travel Award (Kyrgyz Republic).

• “FabriXense” smart clothing finalist (WT Innovation World Cup 2014).

• Untold News Award runner-up + People’s Choice.

2013

• Universal Biotech Innovation Prize finalist (microendoscope).

• EURETINA Innovation Award finalist (PPG signal extraction).

• HAMSA Award (BiophotonicsPlus EU).

• Contact Lens Display finalist (WT Innovation World Cup).

• Tesla Award for Technical Communication on Electro-Optics.

• Journal’s Top Downloaded Paper Award (JEOS:RP).

2012

• Fellow of OSA.

• Young Investigator Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INNI).

• IEEE Senior Member.

• Winner, WT Innovation World Cup (Opto-Phone).

• Finalist, Robotdalen Innovation Award.

• ARVO Hot Topic Award.

• German Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize finalist.

• IET Innovation Award Highly Commended Entry.

• Applied Optics 50th anniversary: ranked 15th in most-published authors.

2011

• International SAOT Young Researcher Prize.

• Lean and Maria Taubenblatt Prize for Medical Research.

• Best paper award (Information Optics Workshop).

• Selected as one of “100 Out-of-the-box Israeli inventions” (optical heartbeat monitor).

• Finalist, Israel Machine Vision Conference.

• Semi-finalist, Ramon Technological Breakthrough Contest.

2010

• Fellow of SPIE.

• Huber Water Technology Prize finalist.

2009

• Juludan Prize (extended depth of focus contact lenses).

• Second place, Bepi Colombo Prize (innovation to applications).

• TheMarker: selected among 7 promising young Israeli researchers.

• Finalist, SPIE Prism Award (extended depth of focus).

• Diploma of Honor, ICO-Photonics Delphi 2009.

• Inclusion in Who’s Who in the World (2009, 2014, 2015, 2018).

2008

• ICO Prize and Abbe Medal for optical super-resolution.

• LaserFocusWorld commendation for excellence in communications.

2007

• Krill Prize, Wolf Foundation.

1995–1996

• Eshkol Fellowship, Israeli Ministry of Science.

1994

• Wolf Award for Research Students.

1990

• Dean’s Prize for outstanding undergraduate achievements.