Prof. Fathpour's Awards and Recognitions

2017: Elected Fellow of OSA, The Optical Society

2017: Research Incentive Award of the College of Optics and Photonics, UCF

2017: Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award of the College of Optics and Photonics, UCF

2015: UCF’s Reach for the Stars Award

2013: ONR Young Investigator Award for proposal on "Hybrid Second-Order Nonlinear Photonic Devices on Silicon"

2013: Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award of the College of Optics and Photonics, UCF

2013: Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award of the College of Optics and Photonics, UCF

2013: Elevated to Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society

2012: NSF CAREER Award for proposal on "Mid-Infrared Photonic Devices and Integrated Circuits on Silicon"

2012: Elevated to Senior Member of OSA, The Optical Society

2011: Elevated to Senior Member of SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics

2007: Featured in the 62nd Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America

2007: UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research

2000: International Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Michigan

1991 – 1995: Fellowship for Outstanding Undergraduate Student, Isfahan University of Technology

1991: 14th rank of the “National Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs” among more than 300,000 applicants nationwide

1990: Selected Student in Entrance Exam for the National Physics Olympics

1989: First rank of the Isfahan Province Scientific Competitions