AWARDS, PRIZES, AND
HONORS
- Associate Editor of the Year, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2010
- Travel Grant Award, for paper “A Distributed Measurement System for Internet Delay Estimation”, IEEE I2MTC 2010
- Associate Editor of the Year, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2009
- IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer, IEEE IMS, 2009 -
- Travel Grant Award, for demo and paper “Compressed-Domain Spatio-Temporal Adaptation System for Video Delivery”, ACM Multimedia 2009
- First Prize (as
supervisor), for
poster “Online Adaptation for Video Sharing Applications”, Faculty of
Engineering Research and Graduate Studies Poster Competition 2009
- Travel Grant Award,
for paper “Model
and Measurement of State Dissemination in MMOGs”, IEEE I2MTC
2008
- First Prize (as
supervisor), for
poster “Improving Gaming Experience in Zonal MMOGs”, Faculty of Engineering Research and Graduate
Studies Poster Competition 2008
- Second Prize (as
supervisor), for
poster “Hard Authentication of H.264 Video Applying MPEG-21
GBSD”, Faculty of Engineering
Research and Graduate Studies Poster Competition 2008
- Best Paper Award,
for paper “A
Dominating Set Based Peer-to-Peer Protocol for Real-Time Multi-Source
Collaboration”, IEEE COPS 2007
- Third Prize demo
winner, for demo “MPEG-21
Adaptation of Video Learning Objects”, I2LOR
2006 Conference
- New Opportunities Fund Award,
Canada
Foundation for Innovation, for project “Collaborative Virtual Presence
Modelling, Communications, and Applications”, 2005
- Best Paper Award,
for paper
“Collaborating in 3D Virtual Environments: A Synchronous Architecture”,
IEEE
WETICE 2000, Knowledge Media Networking Workshop
- University of Ottawa Doctoral Research Scholarship
(2000)
- 1998 Canadian Advanced Technology Association
Scholarship in Telecommunications Software
- University of Ottawa National Excellence
Scholarship (1998-2000)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Post Graduate Scholarship (NSERC PGS-B ‘98-2000)
- First Prize
winner, 1998 ACM/IBM
Quest for Java contest (Entry: JETS)
- Third Prize winner
, 1997 ACM/IBM
Quest for Java contest (Entry: jStreaming)
- 1997 IEEE Ottawa Section Graduate Student Award
- University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship
(1997/98)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS 1997/98)
- University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship
(1996/97)
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS 1996/97)
- University of Ottawa Graduate Admission
Scholarship
(1995/96)
- Professional Engineers of Ontario Gold
Medal
(1995)
- University of Ottawa Gold Medal
for highest
standing in the Faculty of Engineering (1995)
- Professional Engineers of Ontario "Academic
Achievement Award" (1995)
- University of Ottawa Plaque for highest standing
in
Electrical Engineering (1995)
- Dean's Honor List, University of Ottawa
(1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95)
- Ottawa Board of Education Silver Medal
for
second-highest convocation standing, 1991
- Subject Award for highest convocation standing:
Calculus, 1991
- Subject Award for highest convocation standing:
Algebra & Geometry, 1991
- Ontario Scholar, 1991