HONORS & AWARDS:
- Edward C. Bryant Scholarship for an Outstanding Graduate Student in Survey Statistics (2020)
- SRMS/GSS/SSS Student Paper Award: The Joint Statistical Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2020)
- Poster Award: EECS 545–Machine Learning, University of Michigan (Fall 2019)
- Travel Award: The Joint Statistical Meeting, American Statistical Association, Denver, Colorado (2019)
- Allan L. McCutcheon Award for Best Methodology Paper, Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois (2018)
- Fund: The 53rd Summer Session in Epidemiology (SSE): EPID 780: Causal Inference, University of Michigan (2018)
- Travel Award: The 73rd Annual Conference of American Association for Public Opinion Research, Denver, Colorado (2018)
- Travel Award: Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology: Statistical Methods for Population-based Cancer Survival Analysis in Venice, Italy, by the Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. (2016)
- Ranked 1st among graduate students in Master of Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. (2012)
JOURNAL PEER-REVIEW EXPERIENCE:
- Biometrics Journal
- Journal of Statistical Methods & Applications
- Sociology Research & Methods Journal
- Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
- Statistics and Probability Letters
- Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
- Journal of Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
- Nature Scientific Reports
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- BMC Medical Research Methodology
- BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
- BMC Public Health
- PLOS ONE
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
- American Statistical Association (2014 – Present)
- American Association for Public Opinion Research (2016 – Present)
- National Health Registries Committee (2014 – Present)
- National Committee for NCD Risk Factors Surveillance (2009 – Present)
- Iranian Statistical Society (IrSS) (2007 – Present)
- Student Academic Association of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2005 – 2008)
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY:
- Farsi – native language
- English – speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency
HOBBIES:
- Persian calligraphy (Nasta’liq), playing Tar (Persian folk instrument), caricaturing, climbing, traveling, listening to music
Further detail about my interests can be found in my CV.