Honors and awards
Honors
Ranked 5th among 600 PhD applicants in the national wide entrance exam of Azad Universities, Iran, February 2010
Recipient of M.Sc. degree in software engineering with A+ honor, Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran, January 2010
Ranked 3rd in the nation wide high school diploma computer science competition, Mashhad, Iran, January 2001
Awards
Publication Award, April 2019
Publication award valued at $1000 from the School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT), the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia
Best Paper Award, November 2018
Paper title: IoT Smart City Architectures: an Analytical Evaluation, Issued by The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, link
PhD Placement Scholarship for Research Excellence, September 2016
Awarded a $3000 grant from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Business School
University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA) scholarship, August 2012
Full scholarship, $33K annually for 3.5 years, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
Nominations
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Recognition of Learning and Teaching, January 2021