Awards & Grants

• World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023, 2024, 2026

  Listed among the world’s top 2% scientists in the Stanford University and Elsevier ranking (single-year citation impact) in 2023, 2024, and 2026, in Networking & Telecommunications.

• Nokia Global University Donation 2026

  Secured €100,000 in Nokia university donation funding for the City2City Digital Twin Calibration project, as project proposer and main Nokia contact.

• IEEE Senior Member 2026

  Elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2026, marking ten years of professional experience and contributions to the IEEE community.

• Travel Grant 2024

  Awarded a travel grant by the Foundation for Aalto University Science and Technology to support international research travel.

• Nokia Foundation Scholarship 2023

  Recipient of the 2023 Nokia Foundation Scholarship, recognizing outstanding research contributions to reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based 6G wireless networks.

• Best-Performing Research Fellow 2022

  Selected as the 2022 best-performing research fellow of the META WIRELESS project. Presented in Gaeta, Italy, on 14 November 2022.

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Scholarship 2021–2024

  Awarded an H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN scholarship (Grant Agreement No. 956256), funding my doctoral research at Aalto University within the META WIRELESS training network.

• Wiley Top Cited Article 2020–2021

  Recognized by Wiley as a top cited article of 2020–2021 in Annalen der Physik, for my single-author paper on beam control with space-time digital metasurfaces.