Honors/Awards/Grants
"Developing Quantitative Sensing Technologies to Evaluate Fine Motor Skills for Autistic Children ," NSF Award No. 2420783, 2024-2027.
Selected for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for the Summer 2024 Term.
2023 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award, “For developing innovative imaging and sensing systems using electromagnetic waves”, 2023.
REU supplement for NSF Award No. 1920098, summer 2023.
"Fast and Robust Imaging of Near-Field Objects" NYIT ISRC grant, 20230-2024.
"Presidential Excellence Award in the Student Engagement in Research, Scholarship, or Creative Activities", New York Institute of Technology's Convocation, 2022.
"Developing a wearable sensor technology to investigate the effect of virtual reality based therapy on the hand motion and the related brain functioning of autistic children," NYIT ISRC grant, 2022-2023.
Yuki Gao from our group received IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Society's Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship Award, Spring 2022.
Hailun Wu from our group received Provost Doctoral Award along with PhD admission from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Spring 2021.
Certificate of Service as guest editor of special issue "Applications of Electromagnetic Waves", MDPI Electronics journal, 2020.
"Quality enhancement in holographic imaging of hidden objects based on background property estimation," NYIT ISRC grant, 2020-2021.
"RUI: Fast and robust non-destructive testing of cylindrical composite components based on microwave measurements," NSF Award No. 1920098, 2019-2024.
"Fast microwave and millimeter wave imaging with expedited scanning," NYIT ISRC grant, 2019-2020.
"Material characterization with a microwave sensor array: application to water quality sensing," NYIT ISRC grant, 2019-2020.
Our paper titled "A microwave sensor array for water quality testing" co-authored with MSc student, Kunyi Zhang, selected as finalist for student paper competition in 20th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2019.
"Implementation of a Comprehensive High-School-College Partnership and Equity-Based Curriculum in Engineering and Computer Science", NSF Award No. 1834099, 2019-2024.
"EAGER SitS: Autonomous soil nutrient sensing system ," NSF Award No. 1841558 , 2018-2020.
"Three-dimensional holographic imaging using single frequency microwave data," NYIT ISRC grant, 2018-2019.
Speaker award at IEEE Long Island RF/Microwave Symposium and Exhibits-Trends in Microwave, 2018.
"Development of a near-field cylindrical microwave imaging technology," NYIT ISRC grant, 2017-2018.
Halliburton Applause Award: recognized for aiming for excellence and hitting the target, 2015.
Halliburton Applause Award: recognized for passion in developing new technology, 2014.
Numerous Halliburton awards for filing patent applications, 2014-2016.
Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE, 2013.
Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), ranked 4 out of 214 Canadian and international applicants in science and engineering, 2012- 2014.
Biography included in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2013; 30th Edition.
Co-author for a paper selected among the journal of Inverse Problems’ “Highlights Collection of 2010”.
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (OMRI) post-doctoral fellowship, 2010-2012.
McMaster Internal Prestige “Clifton W. Sherman Graduate Scholarship” for doctoral study in science and engineering, 2009-2010.
Co-author for an “honorable mention” paper in the student paper contest, Antennas and Propagation Symposium, San Diego, 2008.
McMaster Internal Prestige “Clifton W. Sherman Graduate Scholarship” for doctoral study in science and engineering, 2008-2009.
McMaster Graduate Scholarship, 2006-2010.
Ranked 25th among more than 500,000 participants in the university entrance exam (Konkour) held nation-wide for B.Sc. degree, Iran, 1997.