News and Awards

Awards

Congratulations to Mohamad Elzohbi, Alper Aksac and Gabriela Jurca who received The TA Excellence Award for their hard work and contribution to the Computer Science teaching program.26/04/2015
Congratulations to Alper Aksac who received the most prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship.15/04/2015
Congratulations to various group members for receiving scholarships/awards for the academic year 2014-2015:
1. Konstantinos Xylogiannopoulos received special recognition from the Eyes-High program at The University of Calgary and received a top-up award.
2. Tamer Jarada received double recognition as recipient of the AITF scholarship and the Eyes High International Doctoral Scholarship.
3. Omar Addam received the AITF scholarship for his PhD studies for the PhD program.
4. Sukhpreet Dhaliwal received Queen Elizabeth II scholarship.
18/06/2014
Congratulations to Tamer Jarada and Omar Addam who received The TA Excellence Award for their hard work and contributions to the Computer Science teaching program.05/05/2013
Congratulations to Alper Aksac, Orkun Ozturk, Konstantinos Xylogiannopoulos, and Omar Addam who received the prestigious Alberta Innovates Scholarship for the academic year 2013-2014. 01/05/2013
Congratulations to Omair Shafiq who received the most prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship2012
Congratulations to Omar Zarour who received one of the most prestigious scholarships, Alberta Innovates Future Technology (iCore) Graduate Studies scholarship 2012
Congratulations to Negar and Keivan for receiving best poster award during the industry day01/05/2012
Congratulations to Shang Gao who received the most prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship2011
Congratulations to Alan Chen who has been selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants to be one of 120 student participants in the 2010 Rising Stars of Research National Undergraduate Research Poster Competition, sponsored by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC2010
Mohammed Rifaie has been named to the 2011 very prestigious list of 25 Top Information Managers and talented leaders as chosen by Information Management magazine. 2011
Mohammed Rifaie has been selected by InfoWorld as the recipient of the 2011 InfoWorld Technology Leadership Award2011
Tamer Jarada received the most prestigious Alberta Innovates (iCore) scholarship 05-05-2011
Shang Gao received the most prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship
Sara Aghakhani received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
Fatemeh Keshavarz received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
Omair Shafiq received the most prestigious Alberta Innovates (iCore) scholarship; he has been ranked as the best applicant to the competition ever.
Ala Qabaja received the most prestigious Alberta Innovates (iCore) scholarship
Keivan Kianmehr received the very prestigious *J.B. Hyne Research Innovation Award* in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the graduate program at the University of Calgary
Mohammed Alshalafa received the prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarship
Alan Chen received the prestigious NSERC CGS-M scholarship
Negar Koochakzadeh received the prestigious NSERC PGS-D scholarship
Shang Gao received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
Negar Koochakzadeh received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
Adnan Muhaimenulreceived the most prestigious NSERC CGS scholarship and iCore funding