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Starting as Incoming Co-Lead Mentor for the AI Hardware Design League (AI-HDL 2027).

Serving as Speaker & Pioneer Relations Chair on the organizing committee of the Iranian American Pioneers (IAP) Summit.

Sub-reviewer for Top Picks (2026), four manuscripts.

Sub-reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys, two survey manuscripts.

Started my Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in the PRISM Lab with Dr. Soheil Salehi.

Received the Herbold One Fellowship ($69,590) from the Department of ECE, University of Arizona.

Sub-reviewer for PAINE 2026, three manuscripts.

PCB-SAGE, my first-author paper on LLM-assisted PCB security assessment, was accepted at PAINE 2026.

FedLLM4HW, my first-author paper on carbon-aware federated triage of LLM-generated Verilog, appears at ACM IGSC 2026.

LeakSEAL on power side-channel leakage in edge-AI learning appears at GLSVLSI 2026.

Our team won 1st place for Best Overall Design and Upper Division at the AI Hardware Design League.

Graduated with my M.S. from San Francisco State University (4.00 GPA).

Received the Outstanding Distinguished Graduate Achievements Award and was named a Graduate Student Honoree at SF State.

“Can Agents Secure Hardware?” appeared at IEEE VTS 2026, where I also volunteered.

Received a DAC 2026 Student Travel Grant ($1,500).

Became a member of the IEEE.

3rd place overall at the SF State Project Showcase for my poster on ML-enabled interconnect modeling.

Elected President of the Iranian Student Association Center at SF State.

The only student invited to volunteer with the Teradyne J750 automated test equipment in NECRL.

Joined the Nano-Electronics & Computing Research Lab at SF State as a Graduate Research Assistant.