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Honours & Awards
- Best Paper Award#, HICSS 2018, Hawaii, USA (List of Publications: C.114)
- Best Student Paper Award#, HICSS 2018, Hawaii, USA (#same paper, List of Publications: C.114)
- Best Paper Nomination, LDIC 2016, Bremen, Germany (List of Publications: C.97)
- Best Paper Award, ACM CABS 2014, Kyoto, Japan (List of Publications: C.62)
- Best Paper Nomination, ACM CABS 2014, Kyoto, Japan (List of Publications: C.61)
- Best Student Paper Award*, CSCL 2009, Rhodes, Greece (List of Publications: C.22)
- Best Paper Nomination*, CSCL 2009, Rhodes, Greece (*same paper, List of Publications: C.22)
- Best Paper Nomination, ACM CHI 2009, Boston, USA (List of Publications: C.18)
- Best Paper Award, ICCE 2007, Hiroshima, Japan (List of Publications: C.13)
- Research Prize Nomination 2018, Danish Society for Education in Business (DSEB)
- Research Dissemination Prize 2016, Danish Society for Education in Business (DSEB)
- Research Impact: (PDF file) PDF fileUN Report: Mobilizing Sustainable Transport for Development, external link (external link) , former United Nation General Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon mentions Shipping Information Pipeline (SIP) as an example of IT solutions that support mobilizing sustainable transport for containerized shipping. (List of Publications: J17, C.62, C.63 & C.64)
- Research Excellence and Industry Investment Assessment: Copenhagen Capital Region (Region H): Greater Copenhagen From Science to Business: Social Big Data
- Member – Advisory Board, Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group on Decision Support and Analytics (AIS SIGDSA)
- Keynote speaker – “ICT in Everyday Life,” International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), Karachi, Pakistan, December 30, 2017
- Keynote speaker – “The Critical Role of Engagement in a BTM Oriented School” ITAC BTM Conference, Edmonton, AL, June 4, 2016
- Faculty Panelist – DSI Doctorial Consortium, Seattle, WA, November 21, 2015
- Visiting Scholar – Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA: 2013-2014
- Member – AIS
2020 Annual TRSM Research Recognition Awards
2019-2020 Five times recipient of TRSM Outstanding Research Recognition
2019 Dean's SRC Activity Award
2018 IBM CAS Faculty Fellow
2017 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award
2016-2017 Mitacs Elevate Strategic Postdoctoral Fellowship
- TRSM Research Recognition Award, Ted Rogers School of Management, false, 2020.
- TRSM Outstanding Research Award (four times), Ted Rogers School of Management, false, 2018–2020.
- Highest teaching evaluation in both graduate and undergraduate courses, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Winter 2017.
- Nominated for Eshrat Arjomandi award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation (best Ph.D. thesis award), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Fall 2013.
- SIAM Travel Award for Graduate Students to attend International Conference on Data Mining, Austin, USA, 2013.
- Graduate Scholarship, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2009–2013.
- Ranked 7th in scientific Olympiad for university students in Software Eng., Iran, 2006.
- Ranked 9th in graduate entrance exam in Software Eng., Iran, 2006.
- Ranked 39th (top 0.01%) in nationwide university entrance exam for engineering and applied mathematics among more than 400,000 participants, Iran, 2001.