- Exemplary reviewer award, IEEE Communications Letters [2015-16]
- Best Demo Award and student travel grant at IEEE WoWMoM [2012]
- Graduate Fellowship Award for Excellence in Electrical and Computer engineering from The University of Iowa, IA, USA [2010-11, 2011-12]
- Scholarship award (worth 100K USD) for PhD studies under Faculty development program from Govt. of Pakistan [2009] (did not avail though)