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Awards, Fellowships & Funding

Funding & recognition.

Federally funded research, competitive fellowships, and awards across digital health, modeling, and applied mathematics.

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2025
Excellent Editor Award
IJMSSC · World Scientific

Research Funding

Grants & fellowships.

NIH · Named Personnel · 2024–present

NIH/NIAID R01 AI173333

"Identifying and modeling immune correlates of protection against congenital CMV transmission after primary maternal infection." Contact PD/PI: Sallie Permar (Weill Cornell Medicine, Pediatrics); Duke Subaward PI: Cliburn Chan (Duke Biostatistics & Bioinformatics). I lead in-silico vaccine-efficacy modeling and maternal–fetal immune analytics via multi-scale scientific machine learning. NIH eRA Commons ID: HLATIFIZADEH.

NSF · Fellowship · 2023–2024

NSF Research Fellowship in AI & ML for Digital Health

Two-year, stipend-bearing graduate traineeship under the NSF NRT BridgesDH program (Award #2125872), West Virginia University. NSF Advanced Certificate in Machine Learning & Data Science for Digital Health awarded on completion (2026).

WVU · Fellowship · 2023

Graduate Summer Machine Learning Research Fellowship

School of Mathematical & Data Sciences, Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, West Virginia University.

Awards & Honors

Recognition.

  • 2025Excellent Editor AwardIJMSSC · World Scientific — for sustained editorial leadership in modeling, simulation & scientific computing
  • 2026NSF Advanced Certificate in Machine Learning & Data Science for Digital HealthNational Science Foundation · BridgesDH NRT
  • 2023AMS Travel GrantAMS Sectional Meeting, University of Cincinnati
  • 2022MDS22 Travel Award & JMM Travel AwardSIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science · AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings
  • 2020–21Graduate Student Travel GrantsSchool of Mathematical & Data Sciences and Provost's Office · WVU
  • 2017Best Paper Award & Excellence in Graduate ResearchShiraz University of Technology
  • 2010–11Exceptional Talented Student AwardShiraz University of Technology
  • 2006Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award