Awards

  1. NSF CAREER award, considered as the most prestigious award from NSF for early-career faculty.

  2. BEST PAPER AWARD, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Dublin, Ireland - 2000

  3. Grants and Research Enterprise Writing (GREW) Fellowship, SDSU - 2016

  4. National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2015–2017

  5. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies Post-doctoral Fellowship (FRQNT) - 2013–2015

  6. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies Doctoral Fellowship (FRQNT) - 2012

  7. McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA) 2009–2012

  8. McGill International Doctoral Award (MIDA) 2009–2012

  9. McGill Graduate Excellence Award, 2011–2012

  10. McGill Provost's Graduate Award, 2010–2011

  11. Lorne Trottier Graduate Fellowship, 2009–2010

  12. Graduate Research Scholarship, Department of ECE, University of Saskatchewan, 2007–2009

  13. The Australian Development Scholarship (ADS), sponsored by AusAID, to fully support my undergradate study in Australia, 2002–2005

  14. Summer Research Scholarship at The Australian National University (ANU), 11/2004–02/2005

  15. Student Travel Grant, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013

  16. Certificates of Merit for being the top-scorer student in several courses, Swinburne University of Technology