In 2022, Cicak was awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for "work experimentally tested the physical size limits at which quantum mechanics ends and classical physics begins." In 2021, she was awarded the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year for "entangling two macroscopic vibrating drumheads, thereby advancing our understanding of the divide between quantum and classical systems." In 2020, she was awarded the NIST Technology Partnership Office Patent of the Month for "Reticulated resonator, the process for making and use of same”.