Dean’s Award, (Exceptional Supervisor Award), Deanship of Academic Services, Taibah University, spring 2016.
Dean’s Award, (Best Initiator’s Award), Deanship of Academic Services, Taibah University, spring 2016.
(Best Paper in Networking and Information Security Track (ICECCO-2013)). Yasser M. Alginahi, Muhammad N. Kabir and Omar Tayan, An Enhanced Kashida-Based Watermarking Approach for Increased Protection in Arabic Text-Documents, The Tenth International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation (ICECCO-2013), IEEE Conference, Ankara, Turkey. 7 – 9, Nov. 2013, pp. 301-304.
(Best Paper Award) Muhammad N. Kabir, Omar Tayan and Yasser M. Alginahi, “Evaluation of Watermarking Approaches for Arabic Text Documents", International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 49 – 54, March 2013.
(First Place Capstone Project) - Science and Engineering Category - Supervised project entitled "Crowd Density Estimation System for Al-Masjid Al-Haram and Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi (CDES)," Students: Rawan Mohammed Turkstani, Ranya Jumah Aloufi, Esraa Asaad Aboulkhair, Wejdan Talal Jamal, Presented at "The Third Scientific Conference for Students of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia,” Khobar, Saudi Arabia, April 30 – May 2, 2012.
Taibah University Research Excellence Award, Taibah University 2012/2013.
University of Windsor Tuition Scholarship (2000/2001 - 2003/2004).
University of Windsor In-Course Bursary (2002/2003 -2003/2004).
Graduate Research Assistant (1999/2000-2003/2004).
Ph.D. Research Scholarship, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA. (Declined).
Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI), Ph.D. graduate scholarship, Dayton, Ohio – 1997 (Declined).
Wright State University Tuition Scholarship (1995/1996 - 1996/1997).
Full Undergraduate Scholarship through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (1990/1991 – 1993/1994).