Recognized in the Top 47 shortlist for the Advanced Science Young Innovator Award, Wiley, 2025

Featured in Women in Materials Science: Celebrating Excellence in the Advanced Materials Family, Wiley, 2025

V60 Women in Sustainability Award , Boston Consulting Company (BCG), 2024

Rising Star, The Advanced Materials journal, Wiley , 2023

NEOM Changemaker, NEOM, 2021

IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecturer, Electron Devices Society , 2021

Selected to participate in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, 2021

Innovators under 35, MIT Technology Review Arabia, 2020

UC Berkeley EECS Rising Stars , UC Berkeley, 2020

portrayed in the Remarkable Women in Technology, UNESCO, 2019

Hariri Canadian University” Alumni Award, 2018

International Rising Talents Award , L’Oreal-UNESCO, 2017

Nanotechnology Student Travel Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016

Women in Science Middle East Fellowship , L’Oreal-UNESCO, 2015

D. Kumar, H. Li, D. Kumbhar, M. Rajbhar, A. Syed, U. Das, G. Milente, N. El-Atab “Highly Efficient Back-end-of-Line Compatible Flexible Si-Based Optical Memristive Crossbar Array for Edge Neuromorphic Physiological Signal Processing and Bionic Machine vision” Nano-Micro Letters, 16 (1), 238, 2024

AA Alsharif, AM Syed, X Li, NA Alsharif, G Lubineau, N El‐Atab, “Hybrid 3D Printing of a Nature‐Inspired Flexible Self‐Adhesive Biopatch for Multi‐Biosignal Sensing” Advanced Functional Materials, 2406341, 2024. (Selected for Inside Back Cover)

D. Kumar, H. Li, U. Das, A. Syed, N. El-Atab “Flexible Solution Processable Black Phosphorus Based Optoelectronic Memristive Synapse for Neuromorphic Computing and Artificial Visual Perception Applications,” Advanced Materials, 35 (28), 2370201, 2023 (Advanced Materials Rising Stars Special Issue – Selected for Front Cover).

D. Kumar, L. Joharji, H. Li, A. Rizk, A. Nayfeh, N. El-Atab, “Artificial Visual Perception Nervous System Using Solution-Processable MoS2-Based in-Memory Light Sensor” Nature Light Science and Application, 12 (1), 109, 2023 (Selected for Front Cover).

F. Alam, J. Ubaid, H. Butt, N. El-Atab “Swift 4D Printing of Thermo-responsive Shape Memory Polymers Using Vat Photopolymerization” Nature npg Asia Materials, 15 (1), 65, 2023.