Honors & Certificates

Selected awards, scholarships, and professional learning credentials.

Honors & Awards

NSF AI Institute Virtual Organization Conference Scholarship
Selected as one of 58 students to receive a full conference scholarship for the Summit on AI Institute Leadership.
Oct 2025
Arthur A. Collins Education Fund in Computer Science
Awarded for leadership in a student organization, integrity, and excellent scholarship.
$2,000 · May 2020
Iowa State Computer Science Poster Competitions
First place, Computer Science Graduate Student Organization poster competition; second place, Iowa State Computer Science 50th-anniversary poster competition, for Adjustment for Recovering Causal Effects in Missing Data.
$380 total · Sep 2019
Iran National University Entrance Examination
Ranked in the top 0.7% among nearly 280,000 participants.
May 2011
RoboCup Programming League World Championship
Sixth place, Singapore.
Jun 2010

Professional Certificates

Hugging Face Agents Course
Beginner course in agentic-AI foundations.
Hugging Face
Deep Learning Specialization
Completed coursework in neural networks and deep learning, hyperparameter tuning, regularization and optimization, machine-learning project strategy, convolutional neural networks, and sequence models.
Coursera
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Coursera
Scientific Machine Learning
Canvas Credentials
Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning
Coursera