Awards

  • Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
    William S.C. Chang Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, UC San Diego, May 2020
  • Jacobs Graduate Student Award
    Selected from a pool of graduate students from all six engineering departments within UCSD Jacobs school of engineering for most impactful research, Fall 2019
  • Institute for Global Entrepreneurship Fellow
    Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, 2018
  • Rice University Honors Student
    Rice University, M.Sc. GPA: 4.04/4.00, August 2016
  • SIAWE Scholarship
    A scholarship for talented Iranian students studying at selected universities in US. Awarded for two consecutive years of 2014 and 2015
  • Richard Newton Young Fellow Award
    IEEE/ACM Design Automation Summer School 2015
  • ACES Lab Fellowship
    Adaptive Computing & Embedded Systems Lab, 2014
  • W. Marshall Rice Fellowship
    Electrical & Computer Engineering Fellowship, 2014
  • Best B.Sc. Thesis Award
    Electrical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, 2014
  • Exempted from M.Sc. entrance exam as an exceptionally talented student
    National Graduate Studies, Iran, 2013
  • Silver Medal
    International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, Beijing, China, Sep 2010
  • First Rank Member, 2009-2014
    National Elites Foundation | Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology
  • Gold Medal
    National Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sep 2009
  • Semifinalist, National Mathematics Olympiad, 2008
  • Semifinalist, National Physics Olympiad, 2008