Best paper award in Power Energy Conference at Illinois · Apr 2024

Leading role in Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPAE) Grid Optimization Challenges (https://gocompetition.energy.gov/)

Leading role in the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPAE) grant #DEAR0001366: Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization, and Risk Management (PERFORM)  (https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/11/f80/doe-research-and-innovation-act-database.xlsx)

Leading Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) S91, S102G and S99 projects on the impact of extreme weather scenarios on power systems and interconnecting North American Eastern and Western Interconnect grids

Leading SRS RN: Sustainable Transportation Electrification for an Equitable and Resilient Society (STEERS)

Leading role in National Science Foundation Award # 1916142: Enhancing the Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization of Large-Scale Electric Grids Utilizing Detailed Synthetic Power Grids and Data Sets (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1916142&HistoricalAwards=false)

Collaboration on National Science Foundation Award # 1944752 CAREER: Machine Learning Based 4D Decomposition and Distributed Optimization, ECCS-1944752 (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1944752)

Travel award for IEEE PES GM 2019 (www.pes-gm.org/)

TPEC 2020 NSF Travel Grant (http://tpec.engr.tamu.edu/ )

Travel grant for ICML 2019 (https://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla19/)

Travel funding for http://tpec.engr.tamu.edu/ 

Travel grant for WE18 - The World's Largest Conference for Women Engineers (https://we18.swe.org/)

Travel award for IEEE PES GM 2018 (www.pes-gm.org/2018/)

Travel grant for IEEE PES Student Congress (http://2017ieeepesstudentcongress.org/) 

Ranked 1st among all M.Sc. students in Power, Dept. of Electrical Engineering.

Ranked the top 5 percent of all applicants in Iranian University Entrance Exam.

Ranked the top 5 percent of all applicants in National Higher Education Entrance Examination.

Nominated for International Mathematics Olympiad