Honors

  • Distinguished Member of ACM.
  • Among the world's top 2% of scientists on Stanford University's list, 2020-23. .
  • Best Paper Award (runner up) IEEE/ACM Connected Health (CHASE), 2023.
  • Best Paper Award IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2022.
  • HiPEAC (European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) Paper Awards for our MICRO'19 paper, 2020.
  • UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellowship, 2020.
  • Best Paper Award from Elsevier International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, 2019.
  • HiPEAC (European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) Paper Awards for our ASPLOS'18 paper, 2018.
  • HiPEAC (European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) Paper Awards for our DAC'18 paper, 2018.
  • Best Paper Award from International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth), 2017.
  • IEEE Senior Member.
  • Life-time Docent title awarded by the Rector of University of Turku, Finland, 2016.
  • Global Marie Curie Fellowship awarded by the European Union (EU) with the score of 94.5% (success rate EU-wide < 10%), 2016.
  • Nominee for "The Teacher of the Year" at University of Turku, chosen by students (university-wide), 2016.
  • Rank 10 by number of publications at University of Turku (among 544 authors in the field of engineering) over the period 2011 to 2015, according to Elsevier SciVal.
  • Rank 10 by number of publications at University of Turku (among 544 authors in the field of computer science) over the period 2011 to 2015, according to Elsevier SciVal.
  • Rank 52 by number of publications at University of Turku (among 4893 authors in all subject areas) over the period 2011 to 2015, according to Elsevier SciVal.
  • Best Paper Award from International Conference on IoT Technologies for Health Care, 2015.
  • Best Paper Candidate in 25th IEEE DFT Symposium, 2015.
  • Ulla Tuominen Foundation Research Excellence Award, 2012.
  • Best Student Paper Award from IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT) Sponsored by Intel Corporation, 2011.
  • Nokia Foundation Research Excellence Award, 2011.
  • Nokia Foundation Research Excellence Award, 2010.
  • Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) Research Excellence Award, 2007.