Awards

• Selected as Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE Control Systems Letters for 20225
• Junior Fellowship, University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt”, University of Bayreuth, Germany, (2024), (20000 Euro)
• DO-LAAS Research Fellow, Department of Decision and Optimization, Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems CNRS, Toulouse, France. (2021 and 2023)
• Best Poster Award, AMSI Optimise 2019, Perth, Australia, (Poster on Climate Economics on the Example of the DICE Model: An Optimal Control Perspective), 2019
• GAMM Junior, selected by the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) (International association of applied mathematics and mechanics), 2015 – 2018

Research Grants

• Control at What Cost? One-Shot Real-Time Dual Inverse Optimal Control; I. Shames, T. Molloy, P. Braun; Funding Agency: Australian Research Council under Grant No. DP250101763, 2025-2028, (AU$ 339908)
• Solution Concepts and Performance Guarantees in Partial Information Multi-Player Games; I. Shames, P. Braun, T. Molloy; Funding Agency: United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. FA2386-24-1-4014, (2024-2027), (US$ 390000)
• Dynamic task assignment and tactic selection for multi-player games (Aquaticus Competition); I. Shames, P. Braun; Funding Agency: Commonwealth Department of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Group, (2021-2022), (AU$ 162000)
• Hybrid And Networked Dynamical sYstems, funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), number ANR-18-CE40-0010, adjoint (non France based) participant, France, 2019–2022