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Grants & Awards
2025 NSERC Discovery Grant: Practical Machine Learning Robustness, 2025-2030. 2025 Bridging Divides Emerging Research Grants: Trustworthy LLM-based Conversation Agents to Enhance Migrant Youth Mental Health, 2025-2027. 2023 Extension of Hamilton Health Sciences RFA Program Award, Project: Building a Deep-Learning Healthcare System in Child and Youth Mental Health, with Dr. Roberto Sassi et al. 2023-2026. 2023 MITACS Accelerate Award, Project: Fine-tuning an LLM for patent drafting: 2023-2024. 2021 MITACS Accelerate Award, Project: Security Considerations of a ubiquitous vital sign monitoring with loss of balance detection, Partner Organization: iMD Research, with Dr. Kristiina Mai et al. for 2021-2022. 2020 Hamilton Health Sciences RFA Program Award, Project: Building a Deep-Learning Healthcare System in Child and Youth Mental Health, with Dr. Roberto Sassi et al. for 2020-2023. 2019 IDEaS Research Award, Project: Quantifying Trust in Autonomous Medical Advisory Systems, with Dr. Thomas E. Doyle et al. for 2019-2023. 2019 Hamilton Health Sciences RFA Program Award, Project: Support and Development of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Medical Imaging, with Dr. Koff et al. for 2019-2022. 2019 MITACS Accelerate Award, Project: Blockchain based Software Validation, Partner Organization: Highmark Global Technologies Inc. 2018 SOSCIP Amended Accelerator Grant (with Dr. Koff and Dr. Doyle) for 2018 2018 MIRA/Labarge Catalyst Grant with Dr. M. Zargoussh (DeGroote School of Business) and Dr. A. Papaioannou (Faculty of Health Sciences) 2017 MIRA/Labarge Catalyst Grant with Dr. M. Ghasemaghaei, Dr. M. Zargoush (DeGroote School of Business) and Dr. S. Philips (Faculty of Health Sciences) 2016 SOSCIP Accelerator Grant (with Dr. Koff and Dr. Doyle) for 2016-2018 2016 NSERC Discovery Grant for 2016-2024 2016 µLHIN for Applied eHealth Leadership with Drs. Doyle, Archer and Lokker 2014 Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Award 2012 Privacy by Design Ambassador designated by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario 2010 Privacy by Design Research Award, received from the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario 2009 Privacy Technologies Research Award, received from the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies 2009-2010 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship - CGS D (highest amount: $35k/year)
Award presentation + $10K cheque at IBM Toronto - 2010
Licenses & Professional Organizations
Since 2012, PEO, Professional Engineers Ontario, member Since 2014, ACM, member Since 2012, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, member Since 2013, IAPP, International Association of Privacy Professionals, member