Best Entrepreneurship Success Stories, 2nd Prize (sponsored by the Commercial Bank of Qatar), Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) at Qatar University College of Business and Economics, 2017. 

Best Student Paper Award (Finalist) for "Design of a Steering Mechanism for a Tethered Capsule Endoscope", X Ye, C Hasson, WJ Yoon, JJ Cabibihan, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation, and Mechatronics, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 2015.

From Innovation to Commercialization, JJ Cabibihan and Mhd Omar Khalifa, 1st Prize, Qatar University, 2015.

IEEE Senior Member Grade, Feb. 2014. (Only 7% of the society’s 431,000 members worldwide are recognized with the distinction).

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation Research Award, Jan 2012.

Best Paper Award (Finalist) for "Pointing Gestures for a Robot Mediated Communications Interface", JJ Cabibihan, WC So, M Nazar, SS Ge, International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 16-18 Dec 2009.

Ph.D. Co-Tutors Fellowship Award, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, Nov. 2004- Nov. 2005.

European Robotics Network (EURON) scholarship grant for RAS/IFRR Summer School on Human-Robot Interaction, Volterra, Italy, 19-23 July 2004 (Participation based on strict selection of PhD and Post Doc students worldwide; http://www.cas.kth.se/ras-ifrr-ss04/index.html)

Ph.D. Fellowship Award. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, Mar. 2003 – Jan. 2006. 

Graduate with High Distinction (3.95/4.0), Master's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, July 2002.

Alumni Medal of Honor, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, March 1999.

Gold Medal for Outstanding Thesis, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, January 1999.

Sibol Outstanding Invention Grand Prize, Department of Science and Technology, Republic of the Philippines, November 1998.

WIPO Gold Medal for Outstanding Invention, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1998.