Awards
Awards
Honors and Awards
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Electronics Department, Kyungpook National University | February 2022
Great Postdoctoral Incentive Award Recipient
KNU-LG Electronics Convergence Research Center, Kyungpook National University | February 2022
Great Publications Incentive Award
Electronic and Electrical Department, Kyungpook National University | February 2021
- Awarded for journal publications in IEEE and Elsevier.
BK21 Scholarship for the Ph.D. Degree
Electronic and Electrical Department, Kyungpook National University | October 2016
- Recipient of the research assistance scholarship for Ph.D. studies.
KNU International Graduate Scholarship (KINGS)
Electronics Department, Kyungpook National University | February 2014
- Recipient of a full scholarship for graduate studies.
Work Certificate Award
SSP. Co. Research Center (Register No. 230531) | August 2013
Best Scholar of the Year Award and Incentives in Engineering Department
Chabahar University | February 2011
- Recipient for the best bachelor final project in the Engineering Department.
Grants
Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) Grants – Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Compute Canada)
2025-2026: Secured a Compute Canada Resource Allocation Grant with Prof. Ali Etemad, valued at $55,000, receiving 45.0 RGU-years on the rorqual-gpu system and 45 TB of /project storage on the rorqual-storage system to support multimodal AI research.
2024-2025: Led and secured a RAC grant with Prof. Ali Etemad, valued at $78,000, providing 132 RGU-years of GPU, 176 core years of CPU, and 50TB of storage to support high-memory GPU applications integrating video, text, speech, and other human-centric modalities.
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Teaching Assistant | 2017-2021
- Teaching Assistant for the Neural Networks course.
- Instructor in the Artificial Brain Research Lab's graduate education program, presenting topics on computer vision models for new graduate students.
Professional Development and Talks
Professional Development
- Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, Queen's University: A foundational program in teaching and learning for educators in higher education.
- Certificate in Professional Development for Postdocs, Queen's University, 2024: Completed 10 workshops covering Indigenization, communication skills, professionalism, teaching development, leadership, grant writing, and management.
Talks
- "AI Applications for Epilepsy Detection," presented at Centre for Teaching and Learning, Canada, 2025.
- "Document Translation Challenges," presented at the Brain and AI Symposium, South Korea, 2023.
- "Atrial Fibrillation Prediction and Cardiac Disease Detection," South Korea, 2019.
- "The Impact of Regularization Constraints on Computer Vision and Neural Structures," South Korea, 2018.
Reviews | Skills
Member of Reviewers Board
- Peer-reviewed over 75 manuscripts for high-ranking journals, including Neural Networks, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE TAI, Expert Systems with Applications, Pattern Recognition, Knowledge-Based Systems, Engineering Applications of AI, Neurocomputing, and Neural Processing Letters.
- Peer-reviewed for conferences such as AISTATS, AAAI, ICONIP, IJFS, IJCNN, ESANN, ICANN, and NEPL.
- Review history available at: Web of Science
Skills
Programming Languages (Python, MATLAB), Platforms (PyTorch, Ubuntu, LaTeX), Languages (English, Persian (Native), Korean and French (Basic))
Membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Young Professionals: review for IEEE journals, attend their talks, and network within the global IEEE community.
Completed Courses in Graduate School
Advanced Digital Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence Applications, Advanced Probability and Random Processes, Applied Agent Systems, Advanced Programming Languages, Design and Analysis of Computer Networks, Digital Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Intelligent Systems Design, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Linear System Theory, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Probability and Applied Statistics, Speech Signal Processing, Visual Communications.