Honors & Awards

• Ranked 2nd at DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge autonomous hacking competition ($1,000,000 cash prize)
• Ranked 1st at National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition 2018 (taking part as a first-timer team, beating last 5 years' champions altogether)
• Ranked 1stMid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition 2018
• Ranked 1st at Iran's Fifth National Hacking Online Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2013)
• Ranked 3rd at Iran's Forth National Hacking Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2013)
• Ranked 1st at Iran's Third National Hacking Online Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2012-2013)
• Ranked 3rd at Iran's First National Hacking Online Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2010)
• Ranked Honorary 1st & Official 5th at Iran's Second National Hacking Contest (cert.sharif.edu, 2010) For participating solo on a contest of teams of three, And staying on top of the scoreboard for 90% of contest time.
• Ranked 11th at International Hackademic Contest (2010) Participating solo, In a large-scale, four weeks contest of security teams participation
• Ranked 1st at Stripe CTF hacking contest (2012) among top 100 people who solved all challenges, contest had 6000 hacker participants
• Ranked 17th in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest, West Asia Region (2007)
• Ranked 31th in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest, West Asia Region (2008)
• Ranked 36th in Decryption, the international cryptography contest (Feb 2012)
• Ranked 2nd in the National Iran Open Robocup Festival, Innovations Section (2011)
• Honorary Undergraduate Scholarship from Sharif University of Technology (2006)
• Graduate Scholarship from Sharif University of Technology (2012)
• Bronze Medal of Astronomy Student Olympiads (2005)