Awards

  • N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communications List 2025 – awarded to Dr. Elif Ak in recognition of outstanding research excellence and significant contributions to networking and communications.
  • Best Paper Award – IEEE 7th Computing, Communications and IoT Applications Conference (IEEE ComComAp 2025) Dec 2025, Madrid, Spain.
  • President of ASEAN Research Network – Established under the Passage to ASEAN (P2A) initiative, it supports regional research collaboration and academic partnerships across 145 Southeast Asian universities.
  • Best Paper Award – 2024 IEEE Communications Society’s Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS). This award is selected based on the best paper of GCSN symposia from both ICC 2024 and GLOBECOM 2024.
  • Member of Fellows Evaluation Committee IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
  • IEEE NL Graduate Scholarship 2025 – awarded to Sasinda C. Prabhashana in recognition of his outstanding academic excellence and meaningful contributions to the IEEE. 
  • Member of Fellow Search Ad Hoc Committee -IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).
  • CommSoft TC Achievement Award– awarded to Dr. Elif Ak in recognition of her innovative contributions to Networked Digital Twins and commitment to diversity in STEM.
  • Best Paper Award – IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on “Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications”, held in June 2025 in Montreal, Canada.
  • Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (50,000 CAD/year for three years), awarded to Tinh Bui for exceptional academic excellence, research potential, and leadership.
  • 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G – awarded to Dr. Bishmita Hazarika in recognition of her outstanding contributions to 6G research and innovation.
  • Editor-in-Chief (EiC)– IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IF: 34.4).
  • IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer –  Class of 2025-2026.
  • Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)
  • Fellow of the Canada Academy of Engineering (CAE)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  • Best Thesis Award – Dr. Dang Huynh received his Best PhD thesis from Queen’s University Belfast, UK under my principal supervision.
  • Best Paper Award – IEEE SITE 2024 in conjunction with IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2024), Oct 2024 Athens, Greece
  • Best Paper Award – IEEE 20th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2024), Cyprus, May 2024
  • Leader Award (research.com)-Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Canada, 2024
  • Best Editor Award – IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2024
  • Best Student Paper Award – 10th International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM’24), Da Nang, Vietnam, February 2024
  • Best Paper Award – IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburg, UK, November 2023
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