Congressional Recognition for attending Grad Cohort, April 2017.
First place in PhD Research Symposium in Computer Science Department at George Mason University, April 2017.
Travel grant to attend Real World Crypto (RWC), Zurich, Switzerland, January 2018.
Travel grant to attend DIMACS Workshop, Piscataway, New Jersey, October 2017.
Google travel grant to attend 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Jose, California, May 2017.
Travel grant to attend the GREPSEC III Workshop, San Jose, California, May 2017.
Travel grant to attend Real World Crypto (RWC) 2017, New York, New York, January 2017.
Travel grant to attend CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop, Washington, DC, April 2017.
Travel grant to attend CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop, San Diego, California, April 2016.
Graduate Research Assistantship from George Mason University, Fall 2013 - Current.
Research Assistantship from General Motors, Fall 2014 - Summer 2015.
Graduate Assistantship from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Spring 2013 - Summer 2013.
Graduate Research Assistantship at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring 2012-Fall 2012.
Qualified to continue graduate studies to Ph.D. program, exempted to take the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian Universities, 2010.
Master thesis qualified as the Premier Research Project in Department of Electrical, Computer and IT Engineering, Qazvin University, 2010.
Research Grant from IRIB (Republic of Iran Broadcasting), 2009 - 2010.
Ranked top $1\%$ among Computer Engineering students, Department of Electrical, Computer and IT Engineering, Qazvin University, 2006 - 2009.
Qualified to continue graduate studies to Master's program, exempted to take the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian Universities, 2006.
Ranked top $1\%$ among Computer Engineering students, Department of Computer Engineering, Tehran North Branch University, 2002 - 2006.
Reviewed For
Elsevier Information Sciences
Elsevier Optics and Lasers in Engineering
Optics & Laser Technology
Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics
Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON)
IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
IET Image Processing journal
Research Experience
Research Assistant and Member of Security Lab, George Mason University.
Supervisor: Dr. Dov Gordon. Working on multi-party secure computation (MPC) and privacy-preserving machine learning. Summer 2016-Current.
Research Assistant and Member of Security Lab, George Mason University.
Supervisor: Dr. Damon McCoy. Working on Security analysis on In-Vehicle Infotainment System (IVI), Fall 2013-Fall 2015.
Research Assistant and Member of Internet Lab, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Supervisor: Dr. Christian Borcea. Working on Smart Virtual Machine Migration and Placement in Cloud Computing, Spring 2013.
Research Assistant and Member of iWIN Lab, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Supervisor: Dr. Miao Jin. Working on Wireless Sensor Network Security and Key Management. Spring 2012-Fall 2012.
Research Associate and Member of Image Processing Lab, University of Tehran.
Supervisor: Prof. H. Soltanian-Zadeh. Working on a Soccer Video Analysis System for IRIB (Iran Broadcasting Organization), 2009-2010.
Teaching Experience
TA for Undergraduate, Computer Systems Architecture (MIPS Assembly), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Spring 2016.
TA for Undergraduate, Computer Programming for Engineers, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Spring 2016.
TA for Graduate, Image Processing, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. Spring 2013.
TA for Undergraduate, JAVA Programming Language, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. Spring 2013.
Instructor for Undergraduate, Assembly and Machine Language, Azad University, Qazvin, Iran 2009-2010.
Instructor for Undergraduate, Advanced Computer Programming in C & C++, Azad University, Qazvin, Iran 2009-2010.
Instructor for Undergraduate, Artificial Intelligence, Payam-Noor University, Tehran, Iran 2009.