Honors and Awards

• Selected and Awarded as the Electrical Engineering Distinguished Student of University of Tehran, June 2007.

• Developing “Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA)”, a novel global optimization algorithm. Since its inception, this algorithm is used to solve many optimization problems. This novel algorithm has absorbed the attention of many researchers in the area of Evolutionary Computation and Optimization. More information about this algorithm is available in its Wiki Page.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialist_competitive_algorithm

• Ranked 10^th in the 10^th National Scientific Olympiad for University Students in Electrical Engineering, 2005.

• Ranked 23^th among more than 15000 EE students in the University Entrance National Exam for M.Sc. Degree, 2005 

• Ranked 4^th among 120 EE students and 3^rd in Electronics Major in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the end of B.Sc. Program 2005.