2017 Golden Goose award, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2012 Dean’s award for outstanding achievement in research/scholarship, College of Forestry, Oregon State University
2009 the First Annual Entrepreneurs and Innovators award by Austin Entrepreneurship Program of Oregon State University, April 4, 2009.
2008 Wall Street Journal World Technology Innovation Award, a runner-up in Environment Category. This was among 28 awards selected from more than 700 nominations that were submitted from more than 30 countries.
2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the US Environmental Protection Agency
Archer Daniels Midland Award for Best Paper in Engineering/Technology in 2004 by American Oil Chemists’ Society (Li, K., S. Peshkova, and X. Geng. 2004. Investigation of soy protein-kymene adhesive systems for wood composites. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 81(5):487-491)
Emerging Faculty Scholar Award, Oregon State University Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, May 2002