Awards

  1. 2020Best Ph.D. Dissertation AwardWilliam S.C. Chang Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, UC San Diego
  2. 2019Jacobs Graduate Student AwardSelected from graduate students across all six engineering departments of the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering for most impactful research
  3. 2018Institute for Global Entrepreneurship FellowRady School of Management, UC San Diego
  4. 2016Rice University Honors StudentRice University, M.Sc. GPA: 4.04/4.00
  5. 2015Richard Newton Young Fellow AwardIEEE/ACM Design Automation Summer School
  6. 2014ACES Lab FellowshipAdaptive Computing & Embedded Systems Lab
  7. 2014W. Marshall Rice FellowshipElectrical & Computer Engineering Fellowship
  8. 2014Best B.Sc. Thesis AwardElectrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology
  9. 2013Exempted from the M.Sc. entrance exam as an exceptionally talented studentNational Graduate Studies, Iran
  10. 2010Silver MedalInternational Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, Beijing, China
  11. 2009Gold MedalNational Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics
  12. 2008Semifinalist, National Mathematics Olympiad
  13. 2008Semifinalist, National Physics Olympiad