Appointed Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (J-ERM), 2026 (for 3 years) 

General Chair for IEEE IMAS, 2026 

Founding Chair for IEEE APS Technical Committee on Wireless Communication, since Oct. 2024. 

IEEE Fellow Grade, IEEE, 2024 

IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for IEEE AP Society, 2022–2024  

King’s Prize for inventors and the gifted (Saudi Arabia), 2018 

Best Paper Awards in IEEE IMAS 2025; IEEE ICMAC, 2021 and 2025; IEEE IMS, 2016; IEEE MECAP, 2016; and IEEE EuWiT, 2008 

First Prize in Student Design Contest, IEEE APS, 2022; and 2nd Prize in IEEE IMS, 2024 

Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Winner, IEEE IMS, 2019 

Finalist/Honorable Mention Prize, IEEE APS, 2005 and 2023; IEEE IMS, 2014 and 2017; R.W.P. King Prize, IEEE TAP, 2017 and 2020 

Interviews on CBC TV “News at Six” and radio “All in a Day” and CTV “Tech Now”;  in newspapers and magazines “USA Today”, “Ottawa Citizen”, “Ottawa Sun”, “Muslim Link”, “Research Works”, “Carleton Now”, and “Charlatan”  
Carleton University Great Grads Honor, 2009 (22 Scientists since 1942) 

National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship for excellence in Ph.D. research, 2009 

Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year Award, 2008 

OCRI Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI), 2010 

Best Project Through Industrial Collaboration, Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), 2007 

Commendation Letter from Minister of Research & Innovation, 2008 

Winner of Canada-wide Business Plan Competition, Canada-wide Business Plan Competition, 2009 

Innovation Challenge Award, National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), 2010 

Strategic Microelectronics Council Industrial Collaboration Award at CMC TEXPO, Canada, 2007 

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP), IEEE, 2013 - 2019 

Guest Editor, IEEE AWPL Special Cluster, 2019 

Guest Editor for Focus Collection in IoP Flexible and Printed Electronics, 2022 

Guest Editor for Special Issue in Frontiers of Communication, 2021 

Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (J-ERM), 2024 

Associate Editor, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Journal,  2024 

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 2024 

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