- Assistant Doctorant, Quantum architecture group (AQUA), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2007
- Visiting Professor, Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Universita Degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, 2018
- Young Professor Sabbatical Award, Cognitive Sciences and Technologies council, Vice-presidency for science and technology, 2018
- US patent: plasmonic waveguide circuits and systems, US8983261B2, 2011