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