AWARDS


  • Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2018.
  • Top Ten Startup Award (as co-Founder of DarwinAI), AutoMobility LA, Canada, 2017.
  • Top Toronto Tech Startup Award (runner-up) (as co-Founder of DarwinAI), Technology in Motion Awards, Canada, 2017.
  • AquaHacking 2017 Challenge First Place Award, de Gasp Beaubien Foundation, Canada, 2017.
  • CIX Top 20 Award (as co-Founder of Elucid Labs), Canadian Innovation Exchange, Canada, 2017.
  • Canada Research Chair, Government of Canada, Canada, 2013.
  • Distinguished Performance Award, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2016.
  • Sandford Fleming Teaching Excellence Award, Sandford Fleming Foundation, Canada, 2015.
  • Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2015.
  • Norman Edmund Inspiration Award (with Shahid Haider), Edmund Optics, USA, 2014.
  • Early Researcher Award, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Canada, 2012.
  • Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2012.
  • Engineering Faculty Research Award, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2012.
  • Alumni Gold Medal (Top Ranking Doctoral Graduate), University of Waterloo, Canada, 2010.

  • Research fellowships:
    • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research, Canada, 2010.
    • Carl A. Pollock Postgraduate Fellowship, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2009-2010.

  • Conference awards:
    • Outstanding Paper Award, CVPR Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-World Computer Vision Systems and Online Challenges, 2021.
    • Best AI Paper Award, Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS), 2020.
    • Best Vision Paper Award, Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS), 2020.
    • Best Overall Paper Award, Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS), 2018.
    • Best Paper Award, NIPS Workshop on NIPS Workshop on Transparent and Interpretable Machine Learning, 2017.
    • Best Vision Paper Award, Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS), 2017.
    • Best Student Paper Award, Ottawa Hockey Analytics Conference, 2017.
    • Best Paper Award, NIPS Workshop on Efficient Methods for Deep Neural Networks, 2016.
    • Synaptive Medical Best Imaging Paper Award, Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS), 2016.
    • Magna Cum Laude Awards (2 Awards), Annual Meeting of the Imaging Network of Ontario, 2016.
    • Cum Laude Award, Annual Meeting of the Imaging Network of Ontario, 2016.
    • Best Paper Award, Conference of Computer Vision and Imaging Systems (CVIS), 2015.
    • Distinguished Paper Award, Conference of Society of Information Display, 2015.
    • CIPPRS Best Paper Award, Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Canada, 2014.
    • CIPPRS Best Paper Award, Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), Canada, 2009.
    • Best Oral Presentation Award, University of Waterloo Graduate Research Conference, Canada, Apr 2010.

  • Scholarships:
    • NSERC Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research, Canada, 2007-2009.
    • President's Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2007-2009.
    • NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research, Canada, 2005-2007.
    • Faculty of Engineering Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada, Jan-Apr 2007.
    • University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, Canada, May-Aug/Sept-Dec 2006, Jan-Apr 2010.