Recognitions and Awards

Computer Science Graduate Award, for outstanding performance and greatest promise of success, 2024

Finalist for the annual Humies awards for human-competitive results produced by Evolutionary Computation, GECCO 2023

Outstanding student at EvoStar conference, 2022

Nominated for the best paper award at EvoAPPS 2022

First place in the Research Projects category at UVM CS Fair, 2022

Inclusion Fellow at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, 2022

Scholarships to attend Grace Hopper Celebration 2020, ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2020, CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop for Women 2021, 2022 and 2023, and CRA-WP Grad Cohort for IDEALS 2023

Student scholarship award for attending the  ALife conference, 2020

Finalist for the best paper award at UCAmI 2017

Ranked 1st among all M.Sc. students in Machine Intelligence and Robotics, University of Tehran, 2014

Ranked 4th among all B.Sc. students in Computer Engineering (Software and Hardware), University of Tehran, 2011

Ranked 613th among 500K participants in the National University Entrance Exam in Mathematics and Physics, Iran, 2007

Semifinalist in the Iranian National Physics Olympiad, 2006