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Academic Background
 | Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of
Alberta, July 2005 |
 | NSERC-CSA Postdoctoral fellow, May-July 2005 |
 | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, May 2005 |
 | M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, May 2002 |
 | B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology,
August 1998 |
Awards and Honors
 | Freudenstein/General Motors Young Investigator Award, by ASME
Design Engineering Division - Mechanisms and Robotics for a prize
winning paper on "Tensionability of an Arbitrary Two-link
Mechanism", 2009 |
 | NSERC postdoctoral fellowship and Canadian Space Agency supplement, May 2005 |
 | Mechanical Engineering Teaching Assistant Excellence Award,
University of Waterloo, Fall 2003 |
 | Meritorious Award for the Best Paper Presented in Bar Product Process
Technology, 43rd Conference in Mechanical Working and Steel Processing,
2001, Charlotte NC |
 | Recipient of Bronze medal in 5th International Olympiad in Informatics,
1993, Mendoza, Argentina |
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