Honor and Award

I am honored to have received numerous awards recognizing my contributions, and I look forward to continuing to achieve excellence and earn further accolades in the future.

• CAS Research/Proposal Development Summer Grant, AppState, Dec 2025.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), July 2

• Graduate Research Associate Mentoring (GRAM) award program 2025-2026, AppState, Feb 2025.

• CAS Research/Proposal Development Summer Grant, AppState, Jan 2025.

• University Research Council Grant award, AppState, Nov 2024.

• The SAFE Fund award (The Billy and Del Hunt Helton Faculty Excellence Fund for the College of Arts and Sciences) for establishing a Robotics Lab and Introduction to Robotics course, AppState, Nov 2024.

• PREParation for Appalachian Research Experiences (PREPARE) 2025, AppState, Nov 2024. 

• ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Grants 2025 Award, Nov 2024.

• Summer Stipend for Writing A Grant (SWAG) Award, AppState, Nov 2024.

• Accelerating Entrepreneurship Capacity program acceptance, the Office of Research & Innovation, AppState, Oct 2024.

• MCBIOS 2024 Young Scientist Excellence Award (YSEA), 20th Annual Meeting of MCBIOS, Emory University, 2024.

• UTHSC Neuroscience Institute Grant (NI) Award, Neuroscience Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2024.

• Travel Grant Award, 16th Annual Postdoc Research Day, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2024.

• Travel Grant Award, 15th Annual Postdoc Research Day, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2023.

• Travel Grant Award, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Conference, 2023.

• Best Poster Award, The ARVO Member in Training (MIT), 2023.

• Best Oral Paper Award, The MICCAI-OMIA Conference, Strasbourg, 2021.

• Outstanding Research Award, University of Tehran, 2019.                            

• Outstanding Teaching and Research Award, University of Applied Science and Technology (UAST), 2018.