Honors and Awards

 

Best Repeatability Prize Finalist (as an advisor) at the 8th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS), 2024.

Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in recognition of Teaching Excellence, 2024.

Elevated to IEEE Senior Member Grade, 2022.

Distinguished as an Exceptional Research and Innovation Leader for the UK Global Talent Visa (endorsed by the UK Royal Society within 24 hours), 2022.

Best Demo/Poster Award at the 25th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), Milan, Italy, 2022.

Best Repeatability Prize (as the co-first author and a mentor) at the 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS), Brussels, Belgium, 2021.

Best Demo/Poster Award at the 23rd ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), Sydney, Australia, 2020. (Video: Award Announcement)

Distinguished as a Highly-qualified Scientist for permanent residence of Germany (Niederlassungserlaubnis für Hochqualifizierte), 2019.

IFAC Young Author Award Finalist, at the 15th IFAC Symposium on Large-Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications (LSS), Delft, The Netherlands, 2019.

Recipient of Munich Aerospace Doctoral Scholarship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, 2016.

Recipient of University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2016.

Recipient of Concordia International Award of Excellence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Canada, 2016.

Admitted by EDEE Doctoral Program Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2016.

Admitted by Doctoral Program Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2016.

Recipient of Departmental Prestigious Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Jacobs School of Engineering), University of California at San Diego (UCSD), United States, 2015.

Best Graduate Student Award in all fields of study at Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, 2014 (received a two-year Master of Science degree in two semesters (one academic-year) with the full GPA (20 out of 20)).