IISE Future Faculty Fellow (3F Program), 2025–2026
Selected for a competitive, yearlong national program preparing Ph.D. students for academic careers in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
FutureBAProf Workshop, University of Iowa, 2026
Selected as one of 22 participants from 117 applicants for a workshop on academic careers in business analytics, including research, teaching, the faculty job market, and early-career faculty development.
Engineering Unleashed Emerging Engineering Educators Workshop, 2026
Selected to participate in a national faculty-development workshop focused on academic career preparation and entrepreneurial-mindset engineering education. The experience strengthened my approach to student-centered teaching through an emphasis on curiosity, connections, creating value, mentoring, professional identity, and purposeful academic career development.
NSF IUSE: EDU Level 1 Proposal Development, 2026–Present
Contributing to the development of an NSF IUSE: EDU Level 1 proposal through literature synthesis, gap identification, project framing, and budget development.
NSF Travel Support Award, 2025
Clemson Graduate Travel Grant, 2024
Top Engineering Student Award, University of Tehran, 2020
Iran National University Entrance Exam, Top 0.4%, 2016