Jaber Daneshamooz - Awards & Honors

Leadership and Innovation

2026 Instructor at UCSB PaCE program, designing and teaching a course in Data Science and Machine Learning concentration.
2026 Developed and delivered CAIDA-Mate in CAIDA ETP Hackathon 2026, guard-railed MCP servers to enable seamless experimentation and data analysis for CAIDA Internet measurement
2025 Finalist at UCSB New Venture Competition with NetSplit
2025 Winner of Global Entrepreneur In Residence from CNSI
2024 Completed NSF I-Coprs ZAP and Boom and got invitated to national I-Crops
2023 - 2024 Two times recipient of Harold Frank Innovation Scholarship

2026 Member of shadow TPC committee for Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '25)
2025 Recipient of IPS grant
2023 Second place of CSAW 2023 logic locking competition - Won travel grant to present our work in the conference: link
2019 Selected student in nationwide computer science and engineering Olympiad of Iran (top 15)
2018 Ranked 1st in Information Technology among all B.Sc. students of 2014 entrance
2018 Exempted from M.Sc. entrance exam for universities of Iran(known as Konkur) as an exceptional-talent student

2025 Graduate Representative: Student engagement committee of CS Department at UCSB
2024 Student Representative: Vice Chancellor Student Affair (VCSA) cabinet
2024 Organizing data science and computing panel of Beyond Academia workshop
2022 President of Iranian Graduate Student Association (IGSA) at UCSB

08/2026 Presented Pramana poster at Berkeley RDI Agentic AI Summit
07/2025 Attended SCORE conference
04/2025 Attended NSDI 2025
11/2024 Attended HotNet 24
12/2023 Presented our work at CSAW23, where our team achieved second place in the Logic Locking Competition.
07/2023 Attended IETF 117
05/2022 Attended IEEE S&P Oakland