Awards & Fellowships

• Best Journal Paper Award at the IEEE Signal Processing Society -Malaysia Chapter- Research Excellence Award 2025 (REA 2025), "Channel Estimation and Reconstruction in Fluid Antenna System: Oversampling is Essential".

• Best Paper Award in IEEE ISTT 2024, "Coordinated Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Cellular-Connected UAV".

• Selected as one of the final qualified candidates for the Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF), funded by the European Union/European Commission, under the host organization of the University of Granada, Granada, Spain. The granted proposal is entitled "Enabling Intelligent Omni-Surfaces for Smart and Efficient Wireless Communication". (June 2023)

• Selected as one of the final qualified candidates the Merit Postdoctoral Research Fellow program, funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT), Quebec, Montreal, Canada. The granted proposal is entitled "Practical and Efficient Communications through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces". (April 2023)

• Selected as a final qualified candidate at the University College London (UCL), London, UK, for a Research Fellow program, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/W026813/1. The project is entitled "Fluid Antenna Systems for 6G Wireless Communications: Implementation, System Optimisation and Theoretical Analysis". (Nov. 2022)

• Selected as a final qualified candidate at the Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow program, funded by the Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowship & NSERC. The granted proposal is entitled "Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communication Technology for 5G and Beyond". (April 2021)

• Selected as a final qualified candidate at the University of Lyon (INRIA), Lyon, France, for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow program. The granted proposal is entitled "Copula Modeling and Performance of Short Packet Transmission". (Oct. 2021)

• Selected as a final qualified candidate at the Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, for Research Professor position. (July 2021)

• Selected as a qualified candidate at the University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain, for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow program, granted by Spanish Government and the European Fund for Regional Development FEDER and by Junta de Andalucia. The projects are entitled "Energy Efficiency in Secure Wireless Communications for 5G" and "Transmission techniques for 5G systems with security and URLLC constraints". (Feb. 2021)

• Invited as a qualified candidate for a Visiting Ph.D. Research program at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. (May 2020)

• Invited as a qualified candidate for a Visiting Ph.D. Research program at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. (May 2020)

• Invited as a qualified candidate for a Visiting Ph.D. Research program at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. (April 2020)

• Invited as a qualified candidate for a Visiting Ph.D. Research program at the Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. (Dec. 2019)

• Member of Iran’s National Elites.

• Ranked 1st among Ph.D. graduates of FUM.

• Ranked 1st among M.Sc. graduates of SUT.

• Selected as a final qualified candidate at FUM for the Ph.D. studies. (Sep. 2018)

• University Fellowship (during Ph.D.), Government of Iran (Jan. 2018 – Jan. 2021)

• University Fellowship (during M.Sc.), Government of Iran (Sep. 2015 – Sep. 2017)

• University Fellowship (during B.Sc.), Government of Iran (Sep. 2010 – Sep. 2014)

Invited Talks

• "Application of Copula Theory in Wireless Multi-User Communication systems", 16th Iranian Statistics Conference, Babolsar, Iran, hosted by University of Mazandaran. (August 2022)