Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design & Automation Assoc., 2012

      • This world-wide award is one of the most prestigious in the field of electronic design automation for Ph.D. dissertations. It is awarded yearly to one dissertation in each of its four categories. I was the award recipient for the category ``New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS''. The award was presented during DATE 2013 conference and included a monetary prize and an offer to publish the dissertation in the Springer EDAA Outstanding Monographs series (see http://www.edaa.com/dissertation_award.html).

  • Merit-based participation in DAC PhD Forum and DAC Young Faculty Workshop, 2012

  • IBM Invention Achievement Plateau Award, 2011

  • IBM First Patent Application Award, 2011

  • SRC Inventor Recognition Award, 2010

  • Merit-based participation in ACM SIGDA Design Automation Summer School, 2009

  • UCLA Electrical Engineering Department Fellowship, Fall 2008

  • Graduated with Distinction, Lebanese American Univ., October 2005

  • Mathematics Prize from College Protestant Francais, June 2000