Honors & Awards
Recognitions and academic distinctions across cryptography, research, and teaching.
- 2024
EB-1A “Extraordinary Ability” Green Card
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)Awarded U.S. permanent residency in recognition of significant contributions to science, research, and technology. EB-1A is reserved for individuals at the top of their field.
- 2023
Honorary Recognition, enCRYPTON Summer School
Sabancı University, TurkeyHonorary token for instructing a five-day cryptographic summer school on CKKS, OpenFHE, and machine learning under homomorphic encryption.
- 2022
O-1A “Extraordinary Ability” Visa
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)Awarded the O-1A visa in recognition of significant contributions to privacy-enhancing technologies.
- 2017
Outstanding Technical Oral Presentation
National University of SingaporeECE Graduate Student Symposium, 2017. Recognized for the clarity and depth of a doctoral research presentation.
- 2015
SINGA PhD Fellowship
A*STAR (Singapore International Graduate Award)Awarded the flagship competitive fellowship of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research to pursue a Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore in collaboration with the A*STAR Data Storage Institute.
- 2015
Student Travel Grant
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)Awarded a student travel grant to attend ACSAC 2015.
- 2014
Honorary Shield, Student Talents Club
Taif UniversityRecognition for training and leading the university's robotics team within the Student Talents Club.
- 2009
M.Sc. Scholarship
Jordan University of Science and TechnologyAwarded a competitive scholarship to pursue an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at JUST.