(2010) Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
(2009) William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, University of Pittsburgh.
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Tabrizi, M., Ware, T.H., & Shankar, M.R. (2019). Voxelated Molecular Patterning in Three-Dimensional Freeforms. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 11(31), 28236-28245.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b04480.
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Shankar, M.R., Smith, M.L., Tondiglia, V.P., Lee, K.M., McConney, M.E., Wang, D.H., Tan, L.S., & White, T.J. (2013). Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 110(47), 18792-18797.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1313195110.