Recent Awards and Recognitions
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Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring - 2024
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Faculty of Science Distinguished Research Professor Award 2024
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Best Paper Award: IEEE SmartNets, Istanbul, Turkiye, 2023
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Western Newsmaker Award 2022
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Best Paper Award: IEEE ISNCC 2020
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Best Paper Award (Nominated): IEEE CCECE 2020
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IEEE CCECE Leadership Award
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Bell Extra Mile Award 2011-2016, Bell Canada
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Bell Excellence Award: 2012-2014, Bell Canada
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Bell top management employee leadership track 2007, Bell Canada
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David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship
@U Waterloo
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Graduate Scholarship
University of Waterloo
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Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
University of Waterloo
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NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (NSERC IPS)
University of Waterloo
Recent Team Awards
Awards to my Supervised HQP- Chonju Mai (PhD student,), Second Prize Winner at the UWORCS 2024 conference (best research proposal presentation category), Dept. of Computer Science, Western University.
- Dr. Sajal Saha (PhD student), Nominated for the Governor General Gold Medal award (nominated by the Dept. of Computer Science for his outstanding academic and research performance in the Ph.D. program), Aug, 2023.
- Abdelkareem Jaradat (PhD student), Best Paper Award: 2023 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications, and Networking (SmartNets 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, 2023
- Dr. Sajal Saha (Ph.D. student), joined as a Tenure Track Asst. Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Northern British Columbia, Aug, 2023.
- Jianing Zhang (UG thesis student), Julian Davies Silver Medal, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2023.
- Sadia Yeasmin (PhD student), Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) recipient, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2023.
- Chonju Mai (PhD student,), First Prize Winner at the UWORCS 2023 conference (best research proposal presentation category), Dept. of Computer Science, Western University.
- Moinul Sayed (PhD student,), Second Prize Winner at the UWORCS 2023 conference (best research proposal presentation category), Dept. of Computer Science, Western University.
- Moinul Sayed (PhD student,), First Prize Winner at the UWORCS 2022 conference (best research proposal presentation category), Dept. of Computer Science, Western University.
- Dr. Rashed Nekvi (PDF), joined as a Tenure Track Asst. Professor at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Brandon University, July, 2022.
- Ameena Nekvi, UG research student, NSERC USRA Award, Summer 2022
- Gopi Gugan (MSc student), Nominated for the Governor General Gold Medal award (nominated by the Dept. of Computer Science for his outstanding academic and research performance in Master’s program), Aug, 2021.
- Sajal Saha (PhD student), Spring 2021 Distinguished Graduate Student Award, awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Brock University, ON, Canada.
- Sajal Saha (PhD student), Western Summer 2021 Student Internship (WSSI).
- Dr. Yaser Al Mtawa (PDF), joined as a Tenure Track Asst. Professor at the Dept. of Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg, Sept, 2021.
- Abdelkareem Jaradat (co-supervised PhD student,), First Prize Winner at the UWORCS 2021 conference (best research proposal presentation category), Dept. of Computer Science, Western University
- Dr. Shahida Jabeen (PDF), NSERC PDF Award 2020-2022
- Mauli Bhatt, UG research student, NSERC USRA Award, Summer 2021
- Yasmeen Ali (MSc), Best Paper Award: 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Montreal, Canada, 2020
- Yaser Al Mtawa, PDF, Best Paper Award (Nominated), IEEE CCECE 2020
- Luka Benjanin, UG research student, Western USRG Award, Summer 2020
- Carolyn Owen, UG research student, NSERC USRA Award, Summer 2019
- Abdelkareem Jaradat, M.Sc. student (co-supervised), First Prize Winner at the UWORCS 2019 conference (best research proposal presentation category), Dept. of Computer Science, Western University