Fellowships, grants, and academic distinctions
Recipient of the 2025 FPL Community Award for "Koios: A Deep Learning Benchmark Suite for FPGA Architecture and CAD Research" — recognizing community impact at the top international conference on field-programmable logic and applications.
$24,000/year research fellowship with Google on the Yosys+Odin-II FOSS EDA project (2021) — supporting open-source FPGA CAD research integrating Yosys front-end synthesis with the VTR toolchain.
Recognition as one of the innovative idea winners by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) and the University of New Brunswick International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre (UNB IBEC), for entrepreneurial research in open-source EDA tooling.
$22,500/year research fellowship on the Odin-II / Verilog-to-Routing (VTR) FOSS EDA project — supporting graduate research in FPGA synthesis tool development and partial technology mapping for the open-source VTR CAD toolchain.
Awarded as a top bachelor project at the University of Tehran, selected by academic supervisors and SHATEL — Iran's largest Internet Service Provider — for the EHW Accelerator for Image Processing Filters project implementing hardware/software co-design on an FPGA platform.