Honors

• Our book Statistical Trend Analysis of … has been ranked as:
  • #1 in 6 Best Cryptographic Hardware eBooks of All Time
  • #5 in 45 Best Text Mining Books of All Time
• My paper Order-restricted linear congruences has been selected as Editors’ Choice
• My paper The number of spanning trees … has been featured on the cover of the Journal
• Collaboration Distance from a Turing Award winner: 2. Link: Stephen Cook – Bruce Kapron – me
• Collaboration Distance from a Fields Medalist: 2. Link: Jean Bourgain – Igor Shparlinski – me
• Erdős Number: 3. Link: Paul Erdős – Carl Pomerance – Igor Shparlinski – me
• Einstein Number: 4. Link: Albert Einstein – Ernst Straus – Carl Pomerance – Igor Shparlinski – me
• 1^st rank (two years) in the Province, and 40^th and 20^th ranks in the Country, in Iranian Mathematics Olympiad

Fellowships/Awards

• Nominated for the 2023 CEC Research Award, College of Engineering and Computing, Miami University
• Nominated for the 2022 Arthur Olson Generational Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering and Computing, Miami University
• Invited (with Travel Grant) to attend the Early Career Research Workshop in Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Number Theory, Clemson University, June 24-28, 2019
• Invited (with Travel Grant) to attend the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg University, September 18–23, 2016
• UVic Fellowship, University of Victoria (Fall 2014 – Summer 2016)
• UVic Graduate Award, University of Victoria (Summer 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2017)
• RA Support, University of Victoria (Fall 2014 – Spring 2017)
• Senate Graduate Scholarship Tutte C&O Award, University of Waterloo (Fall 2012)
• Graduate Research Studentship, University of Waterloo (Fall 2011 – Winter 2013)
• Mathematics Graduate Experience Award, University of Waterloo (Fall 2011 – Winter 2013)
• International Master’s Student Award, University of Waterloo (Fall 2011 – Winter 2013)
• Mathematics Faculty Graduate Award, University of Waterloo (Fall 2011 and Fall 2012)

Travel Grants

• Travel Grant from the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for the 36th International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO 2016), University of California, Santa Barbara, August 14-18, 2016
• Travel Grant from the Fields Institute for the Conference on Geometry, Algebra, Number Theory, and their Information Technology Applications, The Fields Institute, Toronto, June 13-16, 2016
• Travel Grant from NSF for the 2015 Midwest Number Theory Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 16-18, 2015
• Travel Grant from ACM/NSF for the 8th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec 2015), New York Institute of Technology, June 24-26, 2015 (declined)
• Travel Grant from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for the Algorithmic Theory of Networks Workshop, Simon Fraser University, March 27-29, 2015
• Travel Grant from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) for the Workshop Hot Topics: Kadison-Singer, Interlacing Polynomials, and Beyond, MSRI, Berkeley, March 9-13, 2015
• Travel Grant from the Fields Institute for the Workshop on Number Theory with a view towards Transcendence and Diophantine Approximation, University of Ottawa, June 8-10, 2013
• Travel Grant from the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) for the SMS 2012 Summer School: Probabilistic Combinatorics, CRM, Universite de Montreal, June 25 – July 6, 2012