- 1997 Tall Club of Silicon Valley High School Scholarship Recipient.
- 1997 Santa Clara High School (Santa Clara, CA) Class Valedictorian.
- Former U.S. Space Camp California Counselor & Simulated Space Shuttle Mission Director.
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering & B.S. Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine).
- NASA-related Senior Honors Thesis- "Flight Mechanics Technology Development for Reusable Launch Vehicles".
- 2002 UC Irvine Homecoming King.
- 2002 UC Irvine Student Commencement Speaker for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
- Self-written Commencement Speech entitled, "Where Are All The Flying Cars?".
- 2019 UC Irvine Tech Hall of Fame Inductee for S.T.E.A.M. equity & justice advocacy & March for Science reform.
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