“Outstanding Researcher and Professor” U.S. permanent residency, May 2007

2004 APSIH Young Scholar AWARD

2004 APSIH Outstanding Achievement AWARD in Electrical Engineering (Ph.D.)

2003 IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award (12 annual awards given around the world)

Invited Tutorial Paper on Monitoring and Control of Polarization-related Impairments in Optical Fiber Systems in the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2004

Invited Paper on Performance Degradations and Monitoring in Optical Networks in Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications Conference, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2003

Post-deadline paper at the Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC-2002)

Second ranked paper at the Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC-2002)

Third ranked paper at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-2001)

Received honorary recognition in Iran due to extraordinary performance (ranked 56th out of 250,000 students) in the national university entrance exam for engineers