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Awards & Honors

  • 2025 Google Research Tech Impact Award
    (Team award for our work on Re-identification risk in data storage)

  • 2026 Frontiers in Science Award from International Congress of Basic Science
    (For our paper “Theoretical Insights Into the Optimization Landscape of Over-Parameterized Shallow Neural Networks,” published in IEEE Transaction of Information Theory, 2019.)

  • Outlier Research in Business grant, USC Marshall, 2026.

  • Golden Apple Award for teaching in undergraduate core classes (2025)

  • Invited Speaker at USC Marshall Research Fair (ResearchVisions), 2025

  • USC Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Research Award, 2024

  • Outlier Research in Business grant, USC Marshall, 2024.

  • Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, USC Marshall, 2024.

  • Dean’s Associate Professorship Chair in Business Administration, USC Marshall, 2024.

  • AWS AI Amazon Research Awards, 2024.

  • Annals of Statistics Special Invited Session Speaker at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2023)

  • NSF award for proposal on learning hidden structures in sparse network data (2023)

  • Adobe Data Science Faculty Research Award (2022)

  • Golden Apple Award for teaching in undergraduate core classes (2022)

  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics (2021)

  • Adobe Data Science Faculty Research Award (2020)

  • IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award (2020)

  • The NSF CAREER Award, DMS Statistics (2019)

  • ‘‘Outlier Research in Business” grant, USC Marshall (2018)

  • The Dr. Douglas Basil Award for Junior Business Faculty (2018)

  • Zumberge Individual Award (2017)
    (USC James H. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund)

  • Google Faculty Research Award (2016)

  • Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, Information Theory Society (2015)

  • NSF Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Center for Science of Information (CSoI) (2015)

  • Student Paper Award Finalist,The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (2012)

  • Student Paper Award Finalist, The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (2011)

  • Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2010–2013)

  • Stanford Electrical Engineering Fellowship (2009–2010)

  • Silver medal, 45th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Greece (2004)

  • Gold medal, National Mathematical Olympiad, Tehran, Iran (2003)

  • Bronze medal, National Mathematical Olympiad, Tehran, Iran (2002)