Editorial Activities

·         Session Co-organizer, 17th International Conference on Composite Materials, Edinburgh, UK, 2009

·         Special Session Organizer and Chair, 17th IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Montreal, Canada, 2006

·         Special Session Organizer and Chair, 18th IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Montreal, Canada, 2007

·         Minisymposium Organizer and Chair, 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, USA, 2007

·         Book Review, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, 2007

 Other Journal and Conference Reviews:

·         Computers and Operations Research, 2009

·         Information Sciences, 2009

·         Computational Materials Science, 2008

·         International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, 2006 & 2007

·         Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, 2006

·         WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, 2005-present (active reviewer)

·         The ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, UK, 2009

·         The 7th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics, Egypt, 2008

·         The 8th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics, Canada, 2007

·         International Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Optimization, Portugal, 2006

 Honors & Awards

·         Nominated and Included in the 2007 Edition of "Who's Who in Computational Science and Engineering" and the 2009 Edition of "Who's Who in America

·         Recognition of Outstanding Performance as Special Session Organizer, 17th and 18th IASTED International Conferences on Modeling and Simulation, Montreal, Canada, 2006 & 2007

·         Listed as the Active Reviewer in WSEAS Conferences and Journals in 2005 and 2006 

·         Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2005

·         Approved Candidate for Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories, NSERC, 2005

·         Alma Mater Student Award, McGill University, 2004

·         Bourse du 5e Congrès International de Génie Industriel, Centor & Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, 2003

·         Differential Fee Waiver Award, McGill University, 2002

·         Outstanding Graduate Students Award for Achieving Excellence in Master of Science Program, IUST, 1998

·         1st Rank Graduate of Bachelor of Science Program, Universities & Higher Education Institute, Iran, Tehran, 1997

·         1st Prize of Excellence in Preparing Specialty Project Under the Title of B.Sc Thesis, Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers, IUST, 1997

·         Invited Lecturer at National Seminars/Special Topic Courses