2026
Honors & recognition
Awards &
recognition.
Recognition for research contributions, deployed systems, technical leadership, and service to the community.
Honors & awards
Honors and awards.
2026
1st Prize, IBM Tech 2026 “Disrupt with Bob” Challenge — formed the team and led development of a semantic query processing platform and user interface
2026
Invited to IBM Tech 2026
2025
IBM Research Accomplishment: GenAI Semantics for Structured Data, 2025
2025
IBM Research Accomplishment: NL2Insights Product and Client Adoption & Impact, 2025
2025
Distinguished Reviewer Award, VLDB 2025
2024
IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment: AI Planning Technology for IBM Applications, 2024
2023
IBM Research Accomplishment: Graphical Event Models, 2023
2023
IBM Research Accomplishment: AI Planning Technology for IBM Applications, 2023
2022
Member of Winning Team, FinCausal 2022 Shared Task (Financial Document Causality Detection)
2021
7 IBM Invention Plateau Awards (2013-2021)
2021
14 IBM Patent Issue Awards (2013-2021)
2020
Best System Demonstration Award, ICAPS 2020
2020
Outstanding PC Member (Honorable Mention), ISWC 2020
2020
Distinguished PVLDB Review Board Member Award, 2020
2020
Best Reviewer Award, In-Use Track, ESWC 2020
2019
Outstanding Reviewer, ISWC 2019
2018
Best Paper Award, In-Use Track, ESWC 2018
2017
1st Prize, Semantic Web Challenge 2017
2016
Best Paper Award, ESWC 2016
2016
2 IBM Eminence & Excellence Awards (2013, 2016)
2015
Outstanding Reviewer Award, WebDB at SIGMOD 2015
2014
IBM Outstanding Contribution Award (2014)
2010
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award, 2010
2010
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Award, 2010
2010
Honorary mention, Linked Data Triplification challenge 2010 (BibBase)
2009
1st prize, Linked Data Triplification challenge 2009 (Linking Open Data)
2009
First Invention Achievement Award, IBM Research, 2009
2008
1st prize, Linked Data Triplification challenge 2008 (LinkedMDB)
2004
Ranked 3rd in Computer Engineering, Sharif University, 2004 (among the 2000 entering cohort); dual-degree program
2000
Ranked 118th among 350,000+ applicants, Iran Nationwide University Entrance Exam (Engineering and Applied Math), 2000
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