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)