Awards & Honors

• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017)
• Best Poster Award at NSF ECP (among 50 posters)—received full support to attend CPSWeek’14 (2014)
• Nominated by UIUC to give a talk during “Graduation Day” at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA  (2014)
• Ernest A. Reid Fellowship Award in Electrical Engineering (2013-2014)
• Best Student Speaker Award at the 8th CSL Student Conference (2013)
• Best Student Paper Award at the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys) (2012)
• C. R. Allen Outstanding International Student Award (2012)
• NSERC (equivalent of NSF in Canada) PGS-D Scholarship (2010-2012)
• Graduated with highest distinction: Highest cumulative GPA (Summa Cum Laude) (2008)
• NSERC CGS-M — most prestigious postgraduate scholarship in Canada (2008-2010)
• Nortel Networks Renewable Scholarship (2003-2008)