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Awards and Honors

1.      

Best paper award and a recognition diploma from the 18th ACM International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM) for the paper entitled “A Dynamic Deep Trust Prediction Approach for Online Social Networks” in 2020. (award certificate)

2.      

Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on the topic of Cyber Security, 2019.

3.      

Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019.

4.      

Recognition diploma with cash award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for a paper entitled “Security Hardening for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators”, which was presented at IEEE ICIT 2019. (award certificate, presentation photos)

5.      

The prestigious IEEE Australian Council Runner-Up Award for the best postgraduate student paper in 2015.

6.      

My PhD research has been recognised as a leading research in Australia by the IEEE Australian Council in 2015.

7.      

Higher Degree Research (HDR) award for Academic Excellence, Griffith University, 2015.

8.      

Outstanding University Contribution award, Griffith University, 2015.

9.      

Inclusion and Diversity Support award, Griffith University, 2015.

10.  

Conference Funding Scholarship from the school of ICT, Griffith University, 2015.

11.  

Conference Funding Scholarship from the Gold Coast Association of Postgraduates (GCAP), Griffith University, 2015.

12.  

Professional/Career development scholarship from the Gold Coast Association of Postgraduates (GCAP), 2014.

13.  

GovHack winner of 2014 in the best use of local data. GovHack is a competitive national event that draws people from government, industry, and academia to hack the government data. Outcomes include mashups, apps, data visualisations, web services, application programming interfaces and more. This event was supported by Microsoft Research, Google, NICTA, Telstra and Australian Bureau of Statistics.

14.  

Winner of the Gold Coast Amazing Race, 2014. Gold Coast Amazing Races events involve multiple teams looking to advance their problem-solving, planning, leadership, communication and negotiation skills, by navigating various Gold Coast Amazing Races checkpoints, and completing team development based exercises.

15.  

Conference Funding Scholarship from the school of ICT, Griffith University, 2013.

16.  

Griffith University’s GUIPRS (tuition fee) and GUPRS (living allowance) award holder 2012-2015.

17.  

Winner of the 2012 Idea Challenge by Cryptography Research Centre (CRC), IHU, Tehran, Iran. (This idea further became my PhD research topic)

18.  

Chosen as a distinguished student researcher in two consecutive academic years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.

19.  

Recognised as a national talent for academic excellence by Iran Talent National Foundation, 2012.

20.  

Chosen as a distinguished bachelor student in the first meeting of honor students of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, February 2005.