Academic Awards

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20. FEAS (Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science) Engineering Research Award in the Senior Career Category at Ontario Tech University on June 24, 2025.

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19. Supervised Capstone project group, 2025 Engineering Capstone Design Competition, both the Professor’s Choice Award and the Students’ Choice Award, Apr. 4, 2025 - Topic: Collaborative Autonomous Robot Delivery System

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18. Supervised Research Associate (Abdullah Rasul), Best Paper Award, 2024 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2024/04, Optimal path generation and real-time scheduling for autonomous mobile platforms.

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17. Supervised MASc student (Farhad Baghyari), Master’s Thesis Award nomination, Ontario Tech University FEAS, 2024/04.

 

16. Supervised MASc student (Tyler Parsons), City of Oshawa’s Convocation Spotlight, 2023/05.

      https://www.oshawa.ca/en/news/oshawa-celebrates-class-of-2023.aspx.

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15. Supervised undergraduate student (Liaba Salman), NSERC USRA, 2023/05-2023/08.

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14. Supervised Capstone project group (Justin Smith, Jackson Whitter, Daniel Strickland,  Cole Levere, and Abigail Giesbrecht), 2023 Engineering Capstone Design Competition 2nd Prize in AME and MME, Apr 10, 2023.
       - Topic: Design and development of an autonomous weed control bot
 

13. Supervised PhD student (Fattah Hanafi), School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Ontario Tech University, Encouragement PhD Scholarship, 2023/03.

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12. Supervised MASc student (Omid Ahmadi Khiyavi), Master’s Thesis Award nomination, Ontario Tech University FEAS, 2022/12.

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11. Supervised undergraduate student (Albert Min), Mitacs Research Training Award, 2020/08-2020/12.

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10. Supervised MASc student (Abdulla Rasul), 2019 ISA (International Society of Automation) Scholarship Award, 2019/08.

09. Supervised MASc student (Niraj Reginald), Student Delegate Award, The 2019 CCToMM Symposium on Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatronics, 2019/05.

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08. Best Conference Paper Award, The 5th Conference on IT Convergence Technology of The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, Development of steering control algorithms and performance verification for all terrain crane, 2016.

07. Best Conference Paper Award, 2015 Autumn Conference on Drive and Control, Optimal steering of all-terrain cranes with MPC method, 2015.

06. Best Conference Paper Award, The 4th Conference on IT Convergence Technology of The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, Modeling and analysis on hydraulic steering system of all-terrain crane, 2015.

05. Best Conference Paper Award, The 3rd Conference on IT Convergence Technology of The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, Simulation study of path planning and tracking for autonomous wheel loader, 2014.

04. Mechanical Engineering Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (Best TA), University of Waterloo, 2011.

03. Mechanical Engineering Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (Best TA), University of Waterloo, 2010.

02. Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2008-2009.

01. President's Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2008-2009.

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Industrial Award

 

01. KIMM Technical Support Award, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, 2015.

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