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.