Honors and Awards

• Class of 2017 the most Outstanding Ph.D. student at School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) at Arizona State University.

• MIT Technology Review has featured one of my published papers on Universal Coating for Programmable Matter as an Emerging Technology entitled Programmable Material Algorithm Solves Universal Coating Problem.

• My research on programmable matter also appears in ACM TechNews, ASU Now News, and Full Circle Fulton Schools News entitled “Opening paths to progress with programmable materials” in https://asunow.asu.edu/20170306-opening-paths-progress-programmable-materials and https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/19874/.

• An Organizer of NSF Workshop on Self-Organizing Particle Systems, January 8, 2014, Portland, Oregon.

• Won NSF Travel Award for DISC conference at Austin, Texas, October 2014.

• Won ASU Scholarship for Grace Hopper conference, October 2014.

• Reviewer for some conferences and the Wireless Networks (WINE) Journal invited by Shlomi Dolev.

• Reviewer for Algorithmica - Springer Journal.

• Great and successful internship experience in eBay Inc. (PayPal).

• Ranked First among B.S. students in Computer Science, Isfahan University, class of 2005.

• Ranked Second among M.S. students in Computer Science, Isfahan University, class of 2008.

• Graduate scholarship Award by Isfahan University, honorary admitted to Graduate Program.

• Best Paper Award for my paper entitled “Using Constrained Policy Graph (CPG) for modeling Access Control policies in BPEL processes”. I was invited to submit an extended version of the paper to ISeCure journal, Jan 2009.