2026: Invitation to attend NSF-ERVA Visioning Workshop on Wave-Based Computing, Washington D.C.
2025: Optics Express Associate Editor.
2024: Fletcher Jones Foundation Faculty Fellowship
2024: SOARS Award, Chapman Leatherby Libraries
2023: Unit Faculty Excellence Award, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University.
2023: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Associate Editor.
2022: Engineering Research Initiation Fund, National Science Foundation (NSF).
2021: Faculty Opportunity Fund, Chapman University.
2019: Public University of Navarra (UPNA) Research Prize.
2019: Caltech's Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science.
2018: Rising Star in EECS, MIT.
2017: Rising Star in EECS, Stanford University.
2016: IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship.
2013: George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Graduate Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin.
2013: Texas Energy Research Challenge Award, Texas Energy Forum.
2011: First Rank, Graduate School, College of Engineering (Fanni), University of Tehran.
2001: National Bronze Medal, 19th Nationwide Mathematics Olympiad, Iran. Ranked 3rd and Awarded “Bronze Medal” in the 19th Nationwide Mathematics Olympiad among all the high school students in Iran.
2025*: Robert A. Day Excellence in Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student Noslen Cruz-Muniz).
2025*: 3MT Thesis Award (People’s Choice award), Chapman University (With M.Sc. student Ponthea Zahraii).
2025*: Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student Michael Cheng).
2024*: Nachman Innovation Challenge award, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With M.Sc. student Ponthea Zahraii).
2024*: Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student Michael Cheng).
2024*: Robert A. Day Excellence in Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student Lupe Torres).
2024*: Robert A. Day Excellence in Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student Ponthea Zahraii).
2023*: SURF summer fellowship, CUE, Chapman University (with UG student Sergio Torres).
2023*: Scholarly Research/Creative Grant, CUE, Chapman University (with UG student David Giani).
2023*: Scholarly Research/Creative Grant, CUE, Chapman University (with UG student Robert Alexander).
2023*: Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student Lupe Torres).
2022*: Undergraduate Research Grant, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University (With UG student David Giani).
Associate Editor: Optics Express (2025-)
Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2023-)
Co-Lead editor: Optical Materials Express, Feature issue on Metamaterials and Information, 2025-2026. Together with Philipp del Hougne, CNRS – IETR, Univ Rennes, France.
Guest editor: npj nanophotonics – Feature issue on Programmable Photonics: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges, 2025-2026.
Journal of Applied Physics Editorial Advisory Board (2022-).
APL Photonics Editorial Advisory Board (2022-).
APL Photonics Early Career Editorial Advisory Board (2020-2022).
Technical Committee , Metamaterials: Electromagnetic Materials and Devices, Metamaterials, Metasurfaces, Metastructures within the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S), 2025-present.