2023:   Best Student Research Paper Award (2nd Position), College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paper: Two-Stage Intrusion Detection System in Intelligent Transportation Systems Using Rule Extraction Methods From Deep Neural Networks (Samah Almultaqi)

2022:   Best Student Research Paper Award (1st Position), College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paper: Novel hybrid model for organizations’ reputation in online social networks (Sami Ali Al-Yazidi)

2022:   Best Student Thesis Award (3rd Position), College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Thesis Title: A framework for Mobile Edge Computing Based on Intensive Tasks Offloading and Effective Resource Management Mechanism (Taha Alfaqih)

2021:   Outstanding Editors Award,  Future Generation Computer Systems journal, Elsevie

2021:   Distinguished Research Award, College of Computer and Information Sciences,  King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2020:   Best Conference Paper Award: IEEE Int'l Conf on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0     (STI) 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Paper: A Real-time e-Health Data Collection System from On-board Vehicle Drivers in Smart City

2019:   Best Student Research Paper Award (3rd Position), College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paper: Mining of productive periodic-frequent patterns for IoT data analytics (Walaa Nagy)

2018:    IEEE recognition as IEEE Senior Member

2018:   Best Student Research Paper Award (2nd Position), College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paper: An Efficient Event Matching System for Semantic Smart Data in the Internet of Things (IoT) Environment (Noura Alhakbani)

2018:   Best Student Thesis Award (1st Position), College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paper: A Framework for Selecting Cloud Computing Services using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (Abdullah Mohammed Al-Faifi)

2018:   Best Journal Paper Award: IEEE Systems Journal. Paper: Health-CPS: Healthcare Cyber- Physical System Assisted by Cloud and Big Data   
                                                                                  
2016:   Outstanding Paper Award: The 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology, Phoenix Park, Pyeongchang, South Korea. Paper: Effective QoS-aware Novel Resource Allocation Model for Body Sensor-Integrated  Cloud platform

2016:   Excellence in Research Award, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2015:   Excellence in Research Award, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2014:   Best Conf. Paper Award, The 5th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing, China, Springer, Paper: A Hybrid Remote Rendering Approach for Graphic Applications on Cloud Computing

2011:   Nominated for the Best Ph.D. Thesis Prize, Kyung Hee University, Suwon, South Korea

2007-2010:      Korean Government IT Scholarship for International Students for MS-PhD (Supported By the IITA - Institute for Information Technology Advancement)