• School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award, 2009

  • First Place Winner of Business Plan Competition, Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine, 2009

  • Best Concept Paper Award, Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine, 2009

  •  Selected as one of the 16 Finalists for Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Cisco Global Business Plan Competition, 2009 

  • Low-Power Design Contest Award, IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design, 2008
    with Ph.D. students Fred Tzeng and Amin Jahanian.

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, 2007
    for the journal paper "Model-Order Reduction Using Variational Balanced Truncation with Spectral Shaping," (with Massoud Pedram) IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 879-891, April 2006.

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2005

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award, 2005
    for the journal paper "Analysis of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2404-2416, Dec. 2004

  • Teaching Excellence Award, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, 2005

  • 2006 Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering

  • Nominated for the Chancellor's Living Our Values Award, 2007

  • IEEE Faculty Advisor, IEEE Chapter of Orange County, 2004

  • Technical Excellence Award, Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage, 2001

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2000