{"id":108,"date":"2023-11-06T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~kamali\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:48:08","slug":"honors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~kamali\/honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors & Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Best Paper Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award Nomination<\/strong>
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
for paper: “NoXLock: SiP Activation and Licensing through Obfuscated on-Chip Network and Fuzzy Traffic<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/strong>
IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
for paper: “StepGrade: Grading Programming Assignments with Context-Aware LLMs<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award Nomination<\/strong>
IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
for paper: “RTLock: IP protection using scan-aware logic locking at RTL<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award Nomination<\/strong>
IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
for paper: “EvoLUTe: evaluation of look-up-table-based fine-grained IP redaction<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Poster (Short Paper) Award<\/strong>
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
for paper: “Warm Up before Circuit De-obfuscation? An Exploration through Bounded-Model-Checkers<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/strong>
IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS)
for paper: “ExTru: A Lightweight, Fast, and Secure Expirable Trust for the Internet of Things<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award Nomination<\/strong>
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
for paper: “SCRAMBLE: The State, Connectivity and Routing Augmentation Model for Building Logic Encryption<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award Nomination<\/strong>
IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
for paper: “Security and complexity analysis of LUT-based obfuscation: From blueprint to reality<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate\/Graduate School\/Community Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(1st) First Place Winner<\/strong>
Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW) Logic Locking Conquest<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ranked 6th out of 2,000+ Applicants<\/strong>
National Computer Science & Engineering Olympiad, Iran<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ranked 1st out of 30,000+ Applicants<\/strong>
National University Entrance Exam for Graduate Admissions, Iran<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Top 0.1% of 150,000+ Applicants<\/strong>
National University Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Admissions, Iran<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Awards of Student Advisees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ECE University of Central Florida Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant<\/strong>
by: Mohammad Akyash
[Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Central Florida]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Future Faculty Laureates (FFLs) Fellowship Award<\/strong>
by: Mohammad Akyash
[Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Central Florida]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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