Recognitions and Awards

Member of Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Honor Society, 2025

Member of ISAL, International Society for Artificial Life

Member of APS, American Physical Society

Computer Science Graduate Awardee, for outstanding performance and greatest promise of success, University of Vermont, 2024

Annual Humies Awards finalist, human-competitive results produced by Evolutionary Computation, GECCO, 2023

Outstanding student at EvoStar conference, the leading European event on bio-inspired computation, 2022

Best Paper Award nominee at EvoAPPS,  International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2022

First place in Research Projects category at UVM CS Fair, University of Vermont, 2022

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

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

Student scholarship awardee for attending  ALIFE, the world’s premier Artificial Life conference, 2020

Finalist for Best Paper Award, at International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, 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), B.Sc. with honors, direct acceptance to M.Sc. program, University of Tehran, 2011

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

Semifinalist, Iranian National Physics Olympiad, 2006