2016 Winner of IET Premium Award for best publication of the year, IET Systems Biology, The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2014 Young Leader of the Year finalist, The Irish Lab Award 2014 2013 Travel grant, ICYSB 2013 course, Gothenburg, Sweden 2010 Research Writing Scholarship, Department of Biosciences, Lincoln University 2009 Best Poster at Cancer Systems Biology Summer School – Rostock, Germany 2009 Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Grant 2006-09 Top Doctoral Achiever Scholar (prestigious New Zealand national award for doctoral study) 2005-06 Postgraduate Scholarship – Lincoln University 2003 HP Awards for Excellence in Software Engineering – Hewlett Packard 2001-03 New Zealand Study Award scholar (prestigious national award for undergraduate study) 2002 Summer Research Scholarship – Lincoln University 2001 Summer Research Scholarship – Lincoln University 2001 Bruce Robson Memorial Prize – Lincoln University 2000 Silver Medal of National Student Mathematics Olympiad in Algebra 1999 Silver Medal of the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad (APMO)