Awards and Honors

  • Secured a non-dilutive grant for my startup (AutoAware AI)” - 2024
  • Ranked 14th among 300+ scientists and engineers around the world in Lyft Perception Challenge - 2019
  • ITS Minnesota Graduate Student Scholarship - 2018
  • 3rd Place Winner of Midwest Big Data Hackathon - 2018
  • Awarded $34,000 Merit-Based Scholarship, Rutgers University - 2014
  • Ranked within top 0.1% among 350,000 participants in Iran national university entrance exam (BS degree) - 2009