Honors

• Classified by US Citizenship Services both as an alien of exceptional ability in US National Interest (EB2-NIW, 2008) and of Extraordinary Ability (EB1-EA, 2009)
• Recipient of JITC’s Golden Eagle Award (Highest civilian contractor award by US government) for the project GENETSCOPE in the capacity of Architect and Lead Developer (2006)
• National Training Simulation Association(NTSA) award for Best M&S Development in Cross-functional area for project ATC-Gen (as a team-member at NGIT) (2006)
• Nominated for outstanding Research Assistant/Staff award at Graduate Professional Students Association (GPSA) among 8000/36000 graduate students at the University of Arizona
• Appointed as one of the judges for evaluation of Travel Grant Applications at Graduate Students Professional Council (GPSA) at University of Arizona (2006)
• Graduate Research Fellowship, ECE Dept., Univ. of Arizona, Fall 2005
• ‘Herculean Effort’ Leadership award, ECE Department, University of Arizona, 2004
• Graduate Research Assistant Scholarship, ECE Dept., Univ. of Arizona, 2001-2005