Honors:

· University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Carleton University, Oct. 2007.

· Ranked 47^th in the Iranian public universities entrance exam for undergraduate studies, 1995.

Awards & Scholarships:

· Industrial Research and Development Post Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-IRDF), 2007.

· Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2006-07.

· Ontario Graduate Scholarship for Science and Technology (OGSST), 2005-06.

· Carleton Universality Graduate Scholarship, 2002-2006.