2025Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)The White House
2026Google Research AwardGoogle
2023NSF AI Institute on Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS)NSF
2023Amazon Research AwardAmazon
2023Honoree, Maryland Research Excellence CelebrationUMD
2022Young Investigator AwardONR
2022Meta Research AwardMeta
2020NSF CAREER AwardNSF
2020Best Paper Award, Adversarial ML WorkshopKDD
2020AWS Machine Learning Research AwardAmazon AWS
2020Honoree, Maryland Research Excellence CelebrationUMD
2019Simons Fellowship — "Deep Learning Foundations"UC Berkeley / Simons
2019IBM Faculty AwardIBM
2019Qualcomm Faculty AwardQualcomm
2018–19Teaching Award, CS DepartmentUMD
2017–19Best Paper Award (3-year period), IEEE Trans. Network Science & EngineeringIEEE TNSE
2011–12Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship ContestQualcomm
2011Ernst Guillemin Thesis Award — outstanding M.Sc. thesis in EECSMIT
2009EECS Great Educators FellowshipMIT
2008Jacobs Presidential FellowshipMIT
2008Highest GPA in the history of Sharif University (up to graduation year)Sharif Univ.
2008Best Student Award · Ranked #1 (2004–2008)Sharif Univ.
2004Ranked #1 of 500,000+, Azad University entrance examIran
2004Ranked #8 of 500,000+, nationwide university entrance examIran
2003Bronze Medal, 16th National Physics OlympiadIran