• Star award for innovation, Microsoft, November 2023.

• Best student paper award (top 5 in 2830 submissions) at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), the flagship signal processing meeting, for the paper:

R. Shafipour, A. Khodabakhsh, G. Mateos and E. Nikolova, "Digraph Fourier transform via spectral dispersion minimization," Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Calgary, Canada, Apr. 15-20, 2018.

• Donald M. and Janet C. Barnard Fellowship (nominated as the top PhD student, in second or third year of graduate study, of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and selected among top students from 13 departments in engineering and the natural sciences) for the 2018-2019 academic year, University of Rochester.

• Ranked 6th among more than 270,000 participants in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities, July 2010.

• NSF Student Travel Grant, July 2016.

• Dean's Honorary Award, Sharif University of Technology, September 2010.

• 4-year fellowship award of the National Elites Foundation, Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, Iran, 2010.

• Member of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), Iran, 2003-2010.