Best Paper Awards
2025
Best Paper Award Nomination
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
for paper: “NoXLock: SiP Activation and Licensing through Obfuscated on-Chip Network and Fuzzy Traffic“
Best Paper Award
IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
for paper: “StepGrade: Grading Programming Assignments with Context-Aware LLMs“
2023
Best Paper Award Nomination
IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
for paper: “RTLock: IP protection using scan-aware logic locking at RTL“
Best Paper Award Nomination
IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
for paper: “EvoLUTe: evaluation of look-up-table-based fine-grained IP redaction“
2022
Best Poster (Short Paper) Award
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
for paper: “Warm Up before Circuit De-obfuscation? An Exploration through Bounded-Model-Checkers“
2020
Best Paper Award
IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS)
for paper: “ExTru: A Lightweight, Fast, and Secure Expirable Trust for the Internet of Things“
Best Paper Award Nomination
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
for paper: “SCRAMBLE: The State, Connectivity and Routing Augmentation Model for Building Logic Encryption“
2019
Best Paper Award Nomination
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
for paper: “Security and complexity analysis of LUT-based obfuscation: From blueprint to reality“
Undergraduate/Graduate School/Community Awards
2020
(1st) First Place Winner
Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW) Logic Locking Conquest
2012
Ranked 6th out of 2,000+ Applicants
National Computer Science & Engineering Olympiad, Iran
2011
Ranked 1st out of 30,000+ Applicants
National University Entrance Exam for Graduate Admissions, Iran
2007
Top 0.1% of 150,000+ Applicants
National University Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Admissions, Iran
Awards of Student Advisees
2025
ECE University of Central Florida Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
by: Mohammad Akyash
[Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Central Florida]
2024
Future Faculty Laureates (FFLs) Fellowship Award
by: Mohammad Akyash
[Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Central Florida]