Grants and Awards

Federal and State Agency Awards

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Frameworks for Detecting Roadway Features Along Arterial Roadways from Planimetric Satellites Imagery Data
  Ohio Department of Transportation STAR Award (Co-PI), 2025–2026

• Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Capture Pollutant Data During Highway Constructions
  Ohio Department of Transportation STAR Award (PI), 2024–2025

• Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program for Cleveland Complete Corridor Project, City of Cleveland
  U.S. Department of Transportation Award (Co-PI), 2023–2025

• MRI: Acquisition of a GPU-based High Performance Computing Instrumentation for Smart City Research
  National Science Foundation (NSF) Award (Co-PI), 2022–2025

University Research Awards

• AquaSwarm: A 3D-Printed Underwater Robotic Swarm for Environmental Monitoring
  Undergraduate Summer Research Award (PI), Cleveland State University, 2025

• Underwater Video Transmission Using Optical Communications
  Undergraduate Summer Research Award (PI), Cleveland State University, 2023

• Adaptive Sampling for Water Quality Monitoring using Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  Undergraduate Summer Research Award (PI), Cleveland State University, 2022

Industry and Other Sponsored Awards

• Ford Motor Company – University Research Program (URP) Award (PI), 2021–2022

• Research on the Raritan River, Basin and Bay, New Brunswick, NJ
  Mini-grant Award (Co-PI), Rutgers Raritan River Consortium, 2019

Distinguished Awards

• Faculty Merit Recognition Award, Cleveland State University, 2023–2024

• Young Professional Boost Award, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, 2022–2023

Excellence in Scholarly Publications

• First Prize Winner, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Student Competition, 2019

• Best Demo Award, IEEE SECON, Boston, MA, June 2019

• Best Paper Award, IEEE MIT URTC, Cambridge, MA, October 2018

• Best Paper Award, IEEE MASS, Orlando, FL, October 2017

• Best Student Paper Runner-up Award, ACM WUWNet, Washington DC, October 2015

• Research Excellence Award, ECE Department, Rutgers University, NJ, Fall 2018

Other Awards

• Best Poster Award, Undergraduate Summer Research Award Poster Session, Cleveland State University, Sept. 2025

• Best McNair Poster Award, Undergraduate Summer Research Award Poster Session, and McNair Scholars Program, Cleveland State University, Sept. 2025

• TA/GA Professional Development Award, Rutgers University, NJ, Fall 2015–Fall 2018

• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, March 2018

• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks Journal, January 2016

• “Exemplary Lecturer” Award (Instructor of the Year), Azad University–East Tehran, Iran, AY 200