• I graduated as the top student in my Master’s program in Mobile, Autonomous, and Robotic Systems (MARS) at Grenoble-INP, ENSE3, Grenoble, France. I achieved a final grade of 16.84/20 out of a group of 16 students.

• During my five-year study in B.Sc. Electronic Systems Engineering at the Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology in Damascus, Syria, I consistently ranked first among my classmates. The number of students I ranked ahead of each year were: 62, 47, 8, 13, and 13 respectively. My final grade upon graduation was 92.03.

Grants

• Mitacs Globalink Research Award to conduct 12 week research project in Canada, 2024.
• European Embedded Control Institute, International Graduate School on Control Program Grant, 2023.
• Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence scholarship, 2021-2022: The scholarship program is aimed at attracting exceptional candidates in the second year of one of the University Grenoble Alpes Master’s degrees related to Artificial Intelligence.

World Robot Olympiad

World Robot Olympiad aims to bring together young people from around the world to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills through challenging and educational robotics competitions.
I participated as a coach in the Syrian version of the competition in 2019, where my team secured first place in the Advanced Robotic Challenge (ARC).

ICPC - International Collegiate Programming Contest

ICPC is an international programming contest for university students. Contests consist of several competitive programming problems. Teams are required to solve these problems under time constraint. Each team consists of 3 students with one computer only. Solutions are written using a certain programming language and require problem-solving/critical-thinking skills in math, algorithms, and data structures.

• University contest winner in 2016, Damascus, Syria.
• Third place in the Syrian National contest in 2017, Damascus, Syria.
• Qualified three times to the ACPC, Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Championship, 2016, 2017, 2018, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
• Judge in Damascus local contest, 2019, Damascus, Syria.
• Chief Judge in Aleppo local contest, 2019, Allepo, Syria.

IPhO-International Physics Olympiad

Only five students are eligible to participate from each country. After winning the Syrian National Physics Olympiad, I successfully qualified for the International Physics Olympiad three times:

• Bangkok, Thailand in 2011.
• Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia in 2012, also received an honourable mention.
• Copenhagen, Denmark in 2013, also received an honourable mention.