AWARDS
AWARDS
2024-Present
Received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2025-2030
Received the 2024 INFORMS JFIG Teaching Excellence Award (Third Place)
Awarded for Excellence at the Student Interface, as the Most Supportive Junior Faculty Member in SIE, College of Engineering, University of Arizona, 2024
Received the Gerald J. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence, University of Arizona, 2024
2018-2023
Teacher of the Year, College of Engineering, University of Arizona, 2022
James E. Marley Graduate Fellowship in Engineering, College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2020
Award Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) travel grant, 2019
Max and Joan Schlienger Graduate Scholarship, College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2019
Third Place Winner in the poster competition, INFORMS, Phoenix, AZ, 2018
Awarded an IEEE Control Systems Society Student Travel Support for Conference on Decision and Control, 2018
2013-2017
College of Engineering award of H.Marcus Dean’s Chair in Engineering, 2015-2017
University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) from the Pennsylvania State University, 2015-2016
Rank 1st (gold medal) in Iranian Operations Research Student Competition, 2013 and 2014