Honors & Awards

• “IEEE Working Group Award” by the leadership of IEEE 802.11bb-2023 for my contributions to this important standard, Oct. 2023

• Elevation to the grade of IEEE Senior Member, June 2023

• 2020 Board of Trustees Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award in the Faculty of Engineering, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2021

• 2020 Board of Trustees Scientific Achievement Degree Award in the Faculty of Engineering, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2021

• 2019 Board of Trustees Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award in the Faculty of Engineering, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2021

• 2019 Board of Trustees Scientific Achievement Degree Award in the Faculty of Engineering, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2021

• The 2019 IEEE Turkey Ph.D. Thesis Award, Istanbul, Turkey, Feb. 2020

I received the 2019 IEEE Turkey Ph.D. Thesis Award with the PhD thesis title “Channel Modeling and Characterization for Visible Light Communications: Indoor, Vehicular, and Underwater Channels” under the supervision of Prof. Murat Uysal.

• The 2019 Ord. Prof. Bedri Karafakioglu Research Incentive Award, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 2019

I received the 2019 Ord. Prof. Bedri Karafakioglu Research Incentive Award in recognition of my contributions to the Visible Light Communication Channel Modelling.

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom 2019), Sochi, Russia, Jun. 2019

Best Paper Award at IEEE BlackSeaCom 2019 has been awarded to the paper “Resource Allocation for Downlink OFDMA in Underwater Visible Light Communications” authored by M. Elamassie, M. Karbalayghareh, F. Miramirkhani, M. Uysal, M. Abdallah, and K. Qaraq.

• IEEE Standard Reference Channel Models, Dec. 2018

The LiFi channels developed by Dr. Miramirkhani were selected as the “LiFi Reference Channel Models” by the IEEE 802.11bb Task Group.

• Best Research Assistant Award of the Graduate School of Engineering, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2018

• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Physical Communication (Elsevier), May 2018

• Third Prize of 1000 TL in Best Poster Award, Communications Technologies and Applications Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2017

• IEEE Standard Reference Channel Models, Sept. 2015

The LiFi channels developed by Dr. Miramirkhani were selected as the “LiFi Reference Channel Models” by the IEEE 802.15.13 Task Group during the IEEE's latest meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, in September. Accordingly, all companies, universities, and research institutions are required to use these channel models as reference for their performance assessments and comparative analysis in the standardization proposals they will submit over the coming months. The channel models developed by them are the most realistic models available in the literature and pointed out the significance of recognition and adoption of these models by industry.

• Top 10% Student in Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, Sept. 2011

Exempted from M.Sc. entrance exam in Iran as an exceptionally talented student.