2016
- Bloomberg Research Grant
- Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2016, ICT.Open
- Meet the Demo award, ICT.Open
- NWO TOP-subsidie
- Proof-of-concept grant from University of Amsterdam
- Nederlandse Prijs voor ICT-onderzoek
2015
- First prize in the Dutch competition for Best Linked Open Data Application
- Third prize in the European competition for Best Linked Open Data Application
- Best new eScience service or project at 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience in Munich
- Entrepreneurship Challenge Cup in CuriousU Summer School in Enschede
- CIKM2015 best student paper award
- Best research paper award ISWC2015
- Grant Trimbot2020 of 640,000 euro
- Faculty Award IBM for extraordinary achievements in IT-research and - innovation
- Grant NWO-programma Creatieve Industrie
- Aanmoedigingsprijs IIR Nationale Privacy Innovatie Award
- Nr.3 in de "NERD 101" by Vrij Nederland in the category Wearables
- Meet the Demo Award, ICT.Open 2015
- Best presentation award, ICT.Open 2015
- Best Flash presentation, ICT.Open 2015
- Best Poster award, ICT.Open 2015
- Grant EU-program Horizon 2020 of 170,000 euro
- Best Iranian engineering student in Europe by the Iranian government
- Best student Project Award 4th ESWC Summer School, 2014, Greece
- Best paper award Soc Info 2013
- Appointed Distuinguished Scientist by Association for Computing Machinery
- Best paper award at ALLDATA 2015
2014
- Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2014
- Best demo certificate BNAIC-2014
- Best Paper Award ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- Euro-Par Achievement Award 2014, Portugal
- SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
- Grant as part of the 2014 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Program
- Honorable mention Christiaan Huygensprijs 2014
- John Wiley Best JASIST Paper Award
- Vidi grant by NWO
- Vidi grant by NWO
- Winner of the SCALE competition in the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014 event
- Grant by High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN)
- Interdisciplinary grant to the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition research program
- State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence funding, NWO
- Best paper award 11th MobiWis, Barcelona 2014
- Best Student Paper Award DBSec 2014
- NVMS Award Flash Presentation
2013
- Best paper award at the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics in Kyoto, Japan
- 3rd prize European SME eHealth Competition in Dublin
- NGI Venture Challenge Spring 2013
- Open Science Award at ECML PKDD 2013
- Veni grant by NWO
- Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Award
- WOLE 2013 Doing Good by Linking Entities 2013 Challenge
- Best student paper award at 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval
- Travel grant from Microsoft Research to participate in the Laten American eScience Workshop 2013
- 2nd position for visual classification International PASCAL VOC challange
- KIEM proposal "Self-Organizing Archives" submitted and granted
- DSRC grant
- 3rd Prize Poster Award, ICT.Open 2013
- MSM2013 challenge, 1st 1500$ prize
- Best Paper Award 4th IEEE International CogInfoCom 2013
- Nomination Master thesis prize (Top 3)
- NGI Informatie Scriptieprijs (5000 euro) Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
- RECVID Workshop 2013 in Gaithersburg, USA
- Award for best imaging presentation at ASCI.Open 2013
- 2nd place with Norvig Web Data Science Award
- Best poster video at IDA 2013
- Enlighten Your Research Global Award
- 8th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems 2014
- Winner SCALE challenge at CCGrid 2014
- NPC 2013 Travel grant of 1000 euro's for the poster presentation
- Travel grant of 750 euro's by the Dutch Society of Mass Spectrometry (NVMS)
2012
- ICT Personality Award 2012, Nederland ICT
- Nederlandse Prijs voor ICT-onderzoek, NWO
- Kwaliteitsprijs van de Hersenstichting
- Veni grant by NWO
- Vidi grant by NWO
- NWO subsidie van twee miljoen
- 3rd position for object detection International PASCAL VOC challange
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award
- Best Paper Award at the ACM Recommender System Conference
- ACM SIGMM best phd thesis award
- 2012 Most Promising Young Researcher award of the VU Network Institute
- Open Science Award at ECML/PKDD 2013