Awards and Honors
Top 2%, Since 2023
Stanford-Elsevier Report
Listed among the world's top 2% scientists in the Stanford-Elsevier report, which highlights the most influential researchers of each field globally.
Best University Booth, 2021
IEEE/ACM DATE Conference
From 24 projects exhibited at this A-rank conference, "MELODI: A Mass e-Learning System for Design, Test, and Prototyping of Digital Hardware" won the best award.
Best Teacher, 2020
TU Wien
Nominated by the students and selected by the rectorate.
Best Course, 2020
TU Wien
For the "System on Chip Architecture and Design" course.
Nominated by the students and selected by the rectorate.
Here, you see me in the award ceremony with the rector (Sabine Seidler) and the vice-rector for education (Matyas Kurt).
Best Open-Source Hardware, 2019
Eurolab4HPC Competition
For the open-source general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) - Nyuzi (a collaboration with Jeff Bush)
This competition was part of the Week of Open Source Hardware (WOSH) conference held in June 2019, in Zurich, Switzerland.
Digilent Design Contest, 2019
Digilent
For the Remote VHDL Prototyping and Testing Platform
Digilent selected our project as the best of forty submissions in the 15the edition of the competition, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Best Paper, 2017
7th Int. MobiHealth Conf.
For the Enhancing the Self-Aware Early Warning Score System through Fuzzified Data Reliability Assessment
Photo with first, second, and two third best paper winners and TPC chairs.
People's Choice Award, 2013
AUTO21 Video Competition
For the Power Line Communications for Electric Vehicles
In AUTO21 network of excellence conference in Toronto, Canada attendees (>500 from a wide range of backgrounds) selected our entry as the best video.
Champions, 2011
UBC Recreational Cup
We won the University of British Columbia (UBC) Recreational Championship Cup as the Saint John's College (SJC) team. I was a lead player (holding the cup) and yes, I was fit and sporty once upon a time.
Best Poster, 2010
AUTO21 Poster Competition
For the the project Pollution and Particle Sensors for Environment-Aware Vehicles
AUTO21 conference in Windsor, Canada. AUTO21 supported nearly 200 researchers and 350 student researchers at 47 universities across Canada and more than 120 public and private organizations.
Full Grant, 2009
IEEE ECCTD Conf.
For "Highly Reliable Harmony Search Algorithm" (single-authored) and "A New High Speed, Low Power Adder: Using Hybrid Analog-Digital Circuits"
The committee of IEEE European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD) selected three participants for a full travel grant that included full-conference registration fee and accommodation in a five-star hotel.
Top Student, 2007
Nushirvani Inst. of Tech.
The rectorate selected the top three students for each department, and they selected me as the best student in the department of electrical and computer engineering.