Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Industrial Post Graduate Scholarship (NSERC-IPS), value of 42,000$, May 2004 – May 2006.

University of Waterloo Research Assistantship award, value of 19,000$/year, Sept 2006 – Aug 2009.

University of Waterloo Graduate Student Scholarship, value of 1,000$, total of 4 times, May 2004 – Dec 2008.

Best Session Presentation Award – 2006 IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada.

Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, Spring 2007.