Honors and Awards

Best Presentation Award, in 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Victoria, Canada, (May 2021).

Concordia Accelerator Award ($5,000), Concordia University, (May 2021).

Best Presentation Award, in IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering, Toronto, Canada, (November 2019).

International Excellence Tuition Award ($36,000), Concordia University, (September 2017).

Ranked 1^st among graduate students in the School of Mechatronics and Computer Engineering with an outstanding GPA: 19.29 out of 20.00, (September 2015).

Ranked 8^th in Iranian Ph.D. entrance exam for graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering, (June 2014).

Ranked 5^th in the Islamic Azad university entrance exam for graduate studies (M.Sc. program) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, (June 2011).

Top 0.4 %, nationwide entrance exam of Iranian universities, very competitive with nearly 500,000 participants, (September 2005).

Being educated in National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), Iran (September 2000 – June 2004).