Awards

> Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, 2020
> Best Paper Award Finalist. The 25th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education(ITICSE), 2020
> CSUN Research, Scholarship, and Creative Awards, 2017
> Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award, The Engineers' Council, 2016
> CSU Northridge Research Fellow Award, 2015
> Best Paper Award. The 7th International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL), 2015
> 1st Place in Symantec Intern Project Showcase Competition, Symantec Corporation, 2010
> UCLA Computer Science Graduate Fellowship, 2008
> Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), National Electrical Engineering Honor Society, University of California Berkeley, 2006
> Tau Beta Pi (TBP), The Engineering Honor Society, University of California Berkeley, 2006
> Phi Theta Kappa, International Honor Society of the Two Year College, 2004
> JPL Undergraduate Scholar (JPLUS) Award, Sponsored by Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2003
> 1st Place in Iran's National Computer Programming Contest among high school students, final round, Tehran, 2000

Travel

The countries I have traveled to (in alphabetical order):

Albania
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Barbados
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Easter Island/Rapa Nui
Ecuador
El Salvador
England
Estonia
Ethiopia
Eswatini
Finland
France
Germany
Grenada
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Italy
Kenya
Kuwait
Japan
Jordan
Kosovo
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Netherlands
New Zealand
Northern Ireland
Norway
Oman
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
San Marino
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovenia
Scotland
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uruguay
Vatican
Vietnam
Wales
Zimbabwe