Awards Won by Students Under Thesis Supervision and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• (Goudarzi*, Rivaz, SPIE 2023) selected as a finalist for the Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award.
• (Salari*, et al. SPIE 2023) won The Best Student Paper Award in Image Processing.
• Md Ashikuzzaman jointly won the localization track of the IEEE IUS 2022 ULTRA-SR challenge for paper (Ashikuzzaman et al. 2022).
• Clyde Belasso (co-supervised by Habib Benali) won the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship in the 2021 competition.
• Md Ashikuzzaman won B2X FRQNT (2021-2024) and PBEEE FRQNT (2021-2022) scholarships (ranked first in both competitions!).
• (Tehrani*, Rivaz, SPIE 2021) selected as a finalist for the Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award.
  Paper presented by PhD student Ali Tehrani.
• (Behboodi*, Rasaee*, Tehrani*, Rivaz, SPIE 2021) selected as a finalist for the Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award. Paper presented by PhD student Bahareh Behboodi.
• Sobhan Goudarzi ranked First (tied) in Challenge on Ultrasound Beamforming with Deep Learning (CUBDL).
• Nima Masoumi received the MASc Convocation Award in recognition of the best MASc thesis in the ECE Department in 2019. ECE is home to ~150 thesis-based MASc students.
• Hoda Hashemi received the MASc Convocation Award in recognition of the best MASc thesis in the ECE Department in 2018. ECE is home to ~150 thesis-based MASc students.
• (Hashemi & Rivaz IEEE TUFFC 2017) among Editor’s Selection of Articles in TUFFC (Dec 2018).
• Dr. Yiming Xiao received the BrainsCAN postdoctoral scholarship. $110,000 over 2 years. 2018.
• (Shams*, Boily, Martineau, Rivaz, SPIE 2016, San Diego, CA) selected as a finalist for the Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award. Only 16 finalists among more than 1000 presentations. Paper presented by R Shams, MASc student.
• (Zhou* &amp Rivaz, IEEE EMBC, Milan, Italy) invited for submission of full journal version. Only 10 invitations among 2948 submissions to IEEE EMBC. Paper presented by MASc student H Zhou. The IEEE JBHI paper (Zhou* &amp Rivaz 2016) is now published.
• H. Khodadadi*, Best poster award, 3rd Annual PERFORM Conference. Sponsored by Biospective. $500. 2016
• R. Shams*, Second place award in Graduate Student Research paper competition, MASc category. $300. 2016
• R. Shams*, First place award in Graduate Student Research paper competition, MASc category. $300. 2015