Awards

• Ranked 9 in the Nationwide Entrance Exam for Iranian Universities among 300,000 applicants in Math and Eng.,1996.

• Ranked 8 in the Nationwide Entrance Exam for Iranian Universities among 1,500,000 applicants, in Foreign languages 1996.

• NSERC Post-doctoral Fellowship ($80,000), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, March 2010.

• Outstanding achievements in graduate studies at Engineering Faculty of the University of Waterloo, June 2009.

• IEEE Senior Member, Since June 2012.

• International Khwarizmi Award for PhD research, Dec 2008, Tehran, Iran.

• Bronze medal in the 7th Nationwide Physics Olympiad (1995).

• Article of the month, IEEE Communications Society, "Wi-Fi On Steroids: 802.11ac and 802.11ad", Feb 2014.

• "Wi-Fi on Steroids: 802.11ac and 802.11ad," the 3rd most frequently downloaded paper of IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine for six consecutive months, 2014

• Student paper finalist of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

• Travel grant award to the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2006), San Francisco.

• Best paper award of ICUE 2006, University of Waterloo, May 13-14, 2006.

• University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, (Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007,Winter 2007), Awarded to the graduate students with excellence in research and education, maximum 5 awards for a PhD students.

• PhD Thesis Completion Award, Fall 2008, University of Waterloo.

• 1st rank (highest honors) among BSc. graduates of all Engineering programs, Shiraz University, 2000, Shiraz, Iran.

• 1st rank in the nationwide poetry competition among Iranian university students, 1999, winner of Glassy Pen and Gold Medal.