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Research Awards

AWARDS, HONOURS, AND RECOGNITIONS

  1. Western Newsmaker Award 2022

    As a subject matter expert in 5G and beyond, cyber security, and smart systems, I have been sharing my innovations, knowledge, insight, and experience with Western and the world in recent years through numerous national and international news media outlets, including BBC Earth channel. I was formally recognized by the president and vice-chancellor of Western University, Dr. Alan Shepard, for my contributions in this area in a formal reception on Oct 17th, 2022.

    • Oct 17, 2022

  2. IEEE CCECE 2021 Leadership Recognition, IEEE 34th CCECE 2021

    For providing outstanding industry support/partnership to 34th Canadian Annual IEEE Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2021 in the area of Silver and other corporate sponsorships

    • Sept 12– Sept. 17, 2021

  3. IEEE CCECE 2020 Leadership Award, IEEE 33rd CCECE 2020, London, ON,

    For providing outstanding industry support/partnership to 33rd Canadian Annual IEEE Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2020 in the area of platinum and other corporate sponsorships, distinguished industry leader keynote, and a high profile industry panel on smart systems

    2020 IEEE CCECE

    • August 30 – Sept. 2, 2020

  4. Best paper award, IEEE 7th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Montreal, QC, Canada,

    “Towards the Development of a Novel Service Cost Modeling: An ISP Perspective”

    • Oct 20-22, 2020
    • Y. Ali, A. Haque and B. Bitar

  5. Nominated for Best Paper Award, IEEE 33rd CCECE 2020, London, ON, Canada

    Smart Home Networks: Security Perspective and ML-based DDoS Detection

    • Aug 30 – Sept 2, 2020
    • Y. Al Mtawa, H. Singh, A. Haque and A. Refaey

  6. Invited submission to IEC Journal of Networking and Network Applications (J-NaNA)

    Multi-Pair Cable Measurements for 5G Indoor Service Provisioning. Journal of Networking and Network Applications

    • 2021
    • Syed Hassan Raza Naqvi, Pin-Han Ho, Sagar Naik, Anwar Haque, and Tanveer Ahmed
    • Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 28–39. https://doi.org/10.33969/J-NaNA.2021.01010

Industry (Bell Canada) Leadership Achievements

Prior joining to Western

  1. Bell Extra Mile Award, BCE Inc

    For providing outstanding support to the technology development team, product team, regulatory team, and finance team for various network costing studies that resulted in multi-million $$ strategic benefits/cost-saving/revenue gain to the company.

    • 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

  2. Bell Excellence Award, BCE Inc

    (1) For developing a detailed and advanced IP cloud cost model that plays a critical role in many business case evaluations. (2) For developing service cost models for some of Bell`s most successful new services in the Canadian market, such as IPTV (i.e., Bell Fibe TV)

    • 2012, 2013, 2014

  3. Bell top management employee leadership track

    BCE Inc

    • 2007

  4. Invited submission to the special issue of Elsevier Computer Networks

    special issue on Optical Networks, Elsevier.

    • Feb 2006
    • Volume 50, Issue 2

  5. Invited submission to the special issue of Elsevier Computer Networks (special issue on Optical Networks, Elsevier

    IEEE High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Hong Kong

    • Feb 2006
    • Volume 50, Issue 2

  6. David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo

    [Cheriton Scholarships are awarded to the best students in the department based on academic and research excellence. I received this award at the inauguration ceremony of this scholarship, where Prof. David R. Cheriton (Professor emeritus at Stanford University) was present at the award ceremony and met the scholarship recipients in person].

    • 2002

  7. Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), University of Waterloo

    • 2002

  8. NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (NSERC IPS), University of Waterloo

    • 2002

Awards/achievements to my Supervised HQP

  1. Dr. A. Alam (co-supervised), joined as an Asst. Professor

    Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Algoma University

    • July, 2021

  2. Dr. Rashed Nekvi (PDF), joined as a Tenure Track Asst. Professor

    Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Brandon University

    • July, 2022

  3. Ameena Nekvi, NSERC USRA Award

    UG research student

    • Summer 2022

  4. 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

  5. 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

    • May 2021

  6. Sajal Saha, PhD student, Distinguished Graduate Student Award (Brock University)

    Dept. of Computer Science, Western University

    • Spring 2021

  7. Sajal Saha (PhD student), Western Summer 2021 Student Internship (WSSI).

    Dept. of Computer Science, Western University

    • Summer 2021

  8. Dr. Yaser Al Mtawa (PDF), joined as a Tenure Track Asst. Professor

    Dept. of Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg

    • Sept, 2021

  9. NSERC PDF Award

    Dr. Shahida Jabeen, PDF

    • 2020-2022

  10. NSERC USRA Award

    Mauli Bhatt, UG research student

    • Summer 2021

  11. Yasmin Ali, Best paper award, 2020 IEEE ISNCC, Montreal, Canada

    2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Montreal, Canada

    • 2020

  12. Luka Benjanin, UG research student, Western USRG

    Western University

    • Summer 2020

  13. NSERC USRA Award

    Carolyn Owen, UG research student

    • Summer 2019

  14. 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

    • 2019

  15. Yaser Al Mtawa, PDF, Best Paper Award (Nominated),

    IEEE CCECE

    • 2020

  16. Carolyn Owen, UG research student, NSERC USRA Award

    • Summer 2019