Awards and Honors

  • Samueli Faculty Career Development Professorship award, University of California Irvine, 2014-2017


  • Best Session Presentation Award, American Control Conference, 2014


  • University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2014


  • Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State (NSF ADVANCE Program) Fellowship to Attend Reach for Commercialization Conference, 2012


  • Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for Women in Aviation, 2008-2009


  • Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Winter 2009


  • Holmes Endowed Fellowship, University of California at Irvine (UCI), 2008-2009


  • Best Session Presentation Award, American Control Conference, 2007


  • UCI fellowship, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California at UCI, 2005-2006


  • Irene Goldsmith scholarship, Aerospace Engineering Department, the University of Kansas, 2004-2005


  • Within the top 2% of Graduate Students, Aerospace Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology


  • Sharif University of Technology, Honored B.Sc. Student Award, 2001


  • 3rd place in Hesa (Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Inc. Co.) National Aircraft Design Competition, Summer 2001

  • Academic Services

  • Session co-chair: 2010 American Control Conference


  • Session chair: 2013 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications


  • Session co-chair: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems


  • Session co-chair: 2015 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control


  • Technical program committee member: 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems.


  • Reviewer

  • NSF Review Panel, 2015


  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control


  • IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems


  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory


  • IEEE Control Systems Magazine


  • Automatica, a Journal of IFAC, International Federation of Automatic Control


  • European Journal of Control


  • International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control


  • International Journal of Control


  • American Control Conference


  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control


  • European Control Conference


  • World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)


  • IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design


  • IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control


  • Society Membership

  • Golden Key International Honor Society


  • Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Engineering National Honor Society


  • Society of Women Engineers