National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2024)

Black & Veatch's Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship Award (2023 - 2026)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2023)

Omurtag Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University (2023)

Finalist for IISE Best Paper Award in Energy Systems Division (2021)

Finalist for the Optimization in Data Analytics Track in the INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics (2021)

Research work featured in INFORMS Computing Society Newsletter (2021)

INFORMS Computing Society's Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award (2020)

Departmental Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (2016 - 2018) 

Harold D. Haldeman Jr. Fellowship Award for excellence in research, University of Florida (2015) 

Outstanding Graduate Student Certificate, University of Florida (2011 - 2016) 

Graduate School Fellowship Award, University of Florida (2011 - 2016) 

Outstanding Graduate Award for 1st-ranked B.Sc. graduate, Sharif University of Technology (2010) 

CAREER: Novel parallelization frameworks for large-scale network optimization with combinatorial requirements: Solution methods and applications

• Sponsor: National Science Foundation

• Role: Sole PI (Share 100%)

• Amount: $510k

• Duration: 2024 - 2029

YIP: A novel graphical method to globally solve mixed-integer nonlinear programs

• Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research

• Role: Sole PI (Share 100%)

• Amount: $450k

• Duration: 2023 - 2026

Building a world of difference faculty fellowship award

• Sponsor: Black & Veatch Foundation

• Role: Sole PI (Share 100%)

• Amount: $22.5k

• Duration: 2023 - 2026

A new paradigm to solve unit commitment and optimal power flow problems

• Sponsor: Iowa Energy Center -- Iowa Economic Development

• Role: PI (Share 87%)

• Amount: $280k

• Duration: 2020 - 2023

A new pruning rule in branch-and-bound for integer programs

• Sponsor: Exploratory Research Program, Iowa State University

• Role: Sole PI (Share 100%)

• Amount: $10k

• Duration: 2019