Awards

 

·       Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2011.

·       2010 Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG).

·       Fellow of the IEEE (Class of 2010) for contributions to wireless communications.

·       2008 Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research.

·       2007 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

·       2007 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement.

·       2006 UBC Killam Research Prize.

·       2006 Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), Boston, Massachusetts, September 2006

·       2006 Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG).

·       2005 Best Paper Award of the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP) for the best paper published in the EURASIP Signal Processing Journal in the year 2005.

·       2004 Vodafone Innovation Award by the Vodafone foundation (jointly with Dr. R. Meyer, Dr. W. Gerstacker, and Prof. J. Huber) for work on “Interference Suppression for GSM”.

·       2003 EEEfCOM Innovation Award (jointly with Dr. R. Meyer, Dr. W. Gerstacker, and Prof. J. Huber) for work on “Interference Suppression for GSM”.

·       2002 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and the German Ministry of Education and Research.

·       2002 Best Student Paper Award of the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2002.

·       2001 Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG).

·       2000 Best Student Paper Award of the European Wireless Conference, Dresden, Germany, September 2000.

 

 

Awards Received by my Students

 

·        Toufiq Islam, NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2011-1014.

·        Nikola Zlatanov, Kashmir Singh Manhas Scholarship in Applied Science, 2011.

·        Diomidis Michalopoulos, NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2013.

·        Nikola Zlatanov, UGF Scholarship (Killam), 2011-2013.

·        Adam Noel, NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-D3), 2011-2014.

·        Nikola Zlatanov, Young Scientist of the Year Award of the Republic of Macedonia, 2011.

·        Kwan Wing Ng, IEEE Travel Grant to attend the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, 2011.

·        Toufiq Islam, Donald N. Byers Memorial Prize for top ranked student in UBC-wide Affiliated Fellowship competition, 2010.

·        Pedram Samadi, IEEE Travel Grant to attend IEEE SmartGridComm, 2010.

·        Peiran Wu, UBC Four Year Fellowship (FYF), 2010-2014.

·        Nikola Zlatanov, UBC Four Year Fellowship (FYF), 2010-2014.

·        Diomidis Michalopoulos, Marconi Society Young Scholar, 2010.

·        Adam Noel, IEEE Hector J. McLeod Scholarship Award, 2010.

·        Adam Noel, Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship (PCGS), 2010.

·        Toufiq Islam, UGF Scholarship (Killam), 2010-2012.

·        Kwan Wing Ng, IEEE Travel Grant to attend the IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference in Sydney, Australia, 2010.

·        Toufiq Islam, UBC Four Year Fellowship (FYF), 2009-2013.

·        Kwan Wing Ng, UBC Four Year Fellowship (FYF), 2009-2012.

·        Ali Nezampour, UBC Four Year Fellowship (FYF), 2009-2010.

·        Amir Nasri, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), 2009-2011.

·        Yang-wen Liang, UGF Scholarship (Killam), 2008-2010.

·        Yang-wen Liang, IEEE Travel Grant to attend the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in Beijing, China, 2008.

·        Chris Snow, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), 2008-2010.

·        Amir Nasri, UGF Scholarship (Li Tze Fong), 2007.

·        Yang-wen Liang, UGF Scholarship, 2007.

·        Simon Yiu, IEEE Travel Grant to attend the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in Glasgow, Scotland, 2007.

·        Simon Yiu, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), 2008-2010.

·        Amir Nasri, Finalist for Best Student Paper Award in Communication Systems at IEEE Globecom 2006. There were only 3 finalists and IEEE Globecom is the top conference in communications (ca. 2500 paper submissions).

·        Yang-wen Liang, IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies 2006 Travel Grant to attend the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Montreal.

·        Simon Yiu, NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D), 2005-2007.

·        Yang-wen Liang, UGF Scholarship (Li Tze Fong), 2005-2007.

·        Chris Snow, NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D), 2004-2007.

·        Chris Snow, “ASI Communications Award” for the poster “Ultra-Wideband Radio for High Data-Rate Communication”, ASI Exchange, Vancouver, 2004.

 

   Last update: 01/05/2010