Awards

External Awards School Awards

2019

Canada C.C. Gotlieb Computer Medal
Parvin Mousavi
IEEE
Best Paper Award
Sidney Givigi
International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications
Influential Educator Award
Ahmed Hassan
ACM SIGSOFT
Lifetime Achievement Award
Selim Akl
CS-Can/Info-Can

2018

Best Paper Award
"Utilization of Wavelet Packet Sensor De-noising for Accurate Positioning in Intelligent Road Services"- A. S. El-Wakeel, A. Noureldin, H.S. Hassanein, and N. Zorba
International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), May 2018.
Fellow
Gabor Fichtinger
IEEE
Distinguished Speaker
Gabor Fichtinger
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Computer-Integrated Surgery
Gabor Fichtinger

2017

Fellow IEEE
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE
Best Paper Award
"Optimal and robust QoS-aware predictive adaptive video streaming for future wireless networks" - R. Atawia, H.S. Hassanein, and A. Noureldin
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2017.

2016

IEEE Communications Society Communications Software Technical Achievement Award
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE

2015

Queen's University School of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision
Hossam Hassanein
Queen's University
Best Paper Award
"Detection and prevention of malicious requests in ICN routing and caching" - E.G. AbdAllah, M. Zulkernine, and H.S. Hassanein
IEEE International Conference on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), October 2015.

2014

IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Distinguished Service Award
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE

2013

Design Award (Nomination)
Roel Vertegaal
WT Studio
Design Award (Nomination)
Roel Vertegaal
CNN Time Magazine
Design Award (Nomination)
Roel Vertegaal
Spark
Visiting Scientist
Pat Martin
IBM CAS
Excellence in Teaching (Nomination)
Parvin Mousavi
Queen's University Alma Mater Society
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
"Designing Action-based Exergames for Children with Cerebral Palsy" - Hamilton A. Hernandez, Zi Ye, T .C. Nicholas Graham, Darcy Fehlings and Lauren Switzer
Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), pp. 1261-1270, 2013
Senior Member
Mohammad Zulkernine
ACM
Best Poster Award
"Faster intraoperative localization of posterior orbital tumours using a patient-specific instrument guide" - M. Kunz, J. Stewart, J.F. Rudan, V. Kratky
Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, poster, 2013.
Most Cited Paper (Top 4)
James Cordy
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
Most Cited Paper (Top 2)
James Cordy
Science of Computer Programming
Fellowship
James Cordy
IBM
Excellence in Teaching
James Cordy
ECE
Best Paper Award
James Cordy
Modelsward 2013, 1st Intl. Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Developmtmt, February 2013
Best Paper Award (Second Place)
"Empowering mobile service provisioning through cloud assistance" - K. Elgazzar, P. Martin, and H.S. Hassanein
IEEE/ACM International Coeference on Utility and Cloud Computing, December 2013.
Best Paper Award
"On the recruitment of smart vehicles for urban sensing" - S. Abdel Hamid, G. Takahara and H.S. Hassanein
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2013.
Best Paper Award
"Heuristic based dynamic spectrum assignment in cognitive radio network" - Z. Liu, N. Nasser and H.S. Hassanein
International Coeference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications, January 2013
Distinguished Lecturer
Gabor Fichtinger
IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
Best Paper Award
"Assisting Developers of Big Data Analytics Applications When Deploying on Hadoop Clouds" - Shang, W., Z.M. Jiang, H. Hemmati, B. Adams, and A.E. Hassan, and P. Martin
The 35th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE, pages 402-411, 2013
Research Chair
Ahmed Hassan
Canada Research Chairs
New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (Nomination)
Ahmed Hassan
Royal Society of Canada
Excellence in Research (Nomination)
Ahmed Hassan
EWR Steacie Prize

2012

Excellence in Graduate Supervision
Selim Akl
Queen's University
Design Award (Top 100)
Roel Vertegaal
Netexplo 100
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
"Evaluating Effects of Structural Holds on Pointing and Dragging Performance with Flexible Displays" - Dijkstra, R., Perez, C. and Vertegaal, R.
CHI 2011. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Research Chair
Randy Ellis
St Francis Xavier University Stanley and Doreen Alley Heaps
Fellowship
Randy Ellis
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Visiting Scientist
Pat Martin
IBM CAS
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
"DiscoTech: A Plug-In Toolkit to Improve Handling of Disconnection and Reconnection in Real-Time Groupware" - Banani Roy, T.C. Nicholas Graham and Carl Gutwin
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012),2012, pp. 1287-1296.
Most Cited Paper (Top 4)
James Cordy
Science of Computer Programming
Grand Professor
James Cordy
Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Best Paper Award
James Cordy
ECMFA 2012, 8th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, July 2012
Distinguished Lecturer
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE Communication Society
Best Paper Award
"Benchmark message authentication code functions for mobile computing" - A. Rashwan, A-E.H. Taha and H.S. Hassanein
The IEEE Global Communications Conference, (GLOBECOM), December 2012.
Best Paper Award
"Ultrasonic non-destructive testing (NDT) using wireless sensor networks" - A. El Kouche and H.S. Hassanein
International Conf on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2012) Procedia Computer Science, vol. 10, August 2012, pp. 136-143.
Best Paper Award
"Symbol error probability analysis of MIMO-relay multiplexing scheme in IEEE 802. l 6j systems" - A. Akhlaq, A. I. Sulyman, H.S. Hassanein, A. Alsanie and S. Alshebeili
The International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (I/T), March 2012, pp. 7-12.
Best Paper Award (Nomination)
"Modulation silencing: Novel RFID anti-collision resolution for passive tags" - A.Y. Alma'aitah, H.S. Hassanein and M. lbnkahla
The IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFJD), April 2012, pp. 81-88.
Best Paper Award
"Think Locally, Act Globally: Improving Defect and Effort Prediction Models" - Bettenburg, N., M. Nagappan, and A.E. Hassan
The 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 60-69, 2012

2011

Excellence in Graduate Supervision (Nomination)
Selim Akl
Queen's University
Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize
Parvin Mousavi
Canadian Association for Computer Science/Association informatique canadienne,
Best Paper Award (Silver)
"Hearing is Believing: Evaluating Ambient Audio for Location-Based Games" - Jason Kurczak, TC. Nicholas Graham, Claire Joly and Regan Mandryk
Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2011), 10 pages, 2011
Best Paper Award
"It's About Time: Confronting Latency in the Development of Groupware Systems" - Cheryl Savery and TC. Nicholas Graham
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011), pp. 177�186,2011
Research Chair
Mohammad Zulkernine
Canada Research Chairs
Best Paper Award
"A Fuzzy Logic-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Auditor" - H. Shahriar and M. Zulkernine
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC2011), pp. 137-144, Sydney, Australia, December 2011.
Best Paper Award
"Contextualized Semantic Analysis of Web Services" - S. Grant, D. Martin, J. R. Cordy, D. B. Skillicorn
13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Services Evolution, Williamsburg, USA
Most Cited Paper (Top 3)
James Cordy
Science of Computer Programming
Distinguished Lecturer
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE Communication Society
Best Paper Award
"Towards Augmenting Federated Wireless Sensor Networks" - F. M. Al-Turjman, H. S. Hassanein and S. M. A. Oteafy
International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2011). Procedia Computer Science, vol. 5, pp.224-231, 2011.
Early Researcher Award
Ahmed Hassan
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Best Paper Award
"An Exploratory Study of the Evolution of Communicated Information about the Execution of Large Software Systems" - Shang, W., Z.M. Jiang, B. Adams, A.E. Hassan, M. Godfrey, M. Nasser and P. Flora
The 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 335-344, 2011

2010

Excellence in Graduate Supervision (Nomination)
Selim Akl
Queen's University
Senior Member
Randy Ellis
IEEE
Best Paper Award
"Computer-generated instrument guides for distal radius osteotomy: A preliminary clinical trial" - B.Ma, M. Kunz, J. F. Rudan, R. E. Ellis, and D. R. Pichora
Can Orthop Assoc, 2010. Held June 17-20 in Edmonton, Canada.
Excellence in Research
James Cordy
IBM CAS
Distinguished Lecturer
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE Communication Society
Best Paper Award
"Comparing uplink schedulers for LTE" - K. Elgazzar, M. Salah, A-E. M. Taha and H.S. Hassanein
International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (JWCMC), 2010, pp. 189-193.
Research Chair
Gabor Fichtinger
Cancer Care Ontario
Best Paper Award (Nomination)
"Validating the Use of Topic Models for Software Evolution" - Thomas, S.W., B. Adams, A.E. Hassan, and D. Blostein
The 10th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 55-64, 2010.
Best Paper Award
"Studying the Impact of Social Structures on Software Quality" - Bettenburg, N., and A.E. Hassan
The 18th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 124-133, 2010.
Best Paper Award (Nomination)
"The Evolution of ANT Build Systems" - McIntosh, S., B. Adams, and A.E. Hassan
The 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 42-51, 2010
Best Paper Award (Nomination)
"Predicting Re-opened Bugs: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project" - Shihab, E., A. Ihara, Y. Kamei, W.M. Ibrahim, M. Ohira, B. Adams, A.E. Hassan and K. Matsumoto
The 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 249-258, 2010.

2009

Best Video
Roel Vertegaal
Discovery Channel Daily Planet
Early Researcher Award
Parvin Mousavi
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Best Poster Award
"Fusion of EM tracking with speckle tracked 3D freehand US using unscented Kalman filter" - A Lang, P Mousavi, G Fichtinger, P Abolmaesumi
SPIE Medicallmaging, 7265:72651Al-l 2, February 2009
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award (Nomination)
Juergen Dingel
NSERC
Community Service
James Stewart
Canadian Human Computer Communications Society
Fellowship
James Cordy
IBM
Distinguished Lecturer
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE Communication Society
Best Paper Award
"Analyzing the application of inter-cell relay in CDMA cellular networks" - A. Radwan, H.S. Hassanein
International Symposium for Computers and Communications (ISCC), July 2009, pp.243-248.
Best Paper Award
"Distributed Receiving in RFID Systems" - K. Ali and H.S. Hassanein
IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Oct. 2009, pp. 69- 76.
PROSE Award
"Medical Robots and Systems" (in Springer Handbook of Robotics, Siciliano, Bruno; Khatib, Oussama (Eds.), Springer, 2008) - Russell Taylor, Arianna Menciassi, Gabor Fichtinger, and Paolo Dario
American Association of Publishers:
Technical Achievement Award "For outstanding and Sustained Technical Contributions to the Field of Intelligence and Security Informatics"
David Skillicorn
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
Best Paper Award
"Measuring the Progress of Projects Using the Time Dependence of Code Changes" - Alam, O.F., B. Adams, and A.E. Hassan
The 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 329-338, 2009
Best Paper Award (Nomination)
"An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level" - Bettenburg, N., W. Shang, W. Ibrahim, B. Adams, Y. Zou, and A.E. Hassan
The 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 85-94, 2009.

2008

Excellence in Graduate Supervision (Nomination)
Selim Akl
Queen's University
Research Chair
Randy Ellis
Queen's University
Best Paper Award
"DBMS Workload Control Using Throttling: Experimental Insights" - W. Powley, P. Martin and P. Bird
The 11th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (GASCON 2008), Toronto, October 2008, pp. 1 - 13
Senior Member
Parvin Mousavi
IEEE
Best Paper Award
"A comparison of neural networks and support vector machines for detection of prostate cancer based on RF ultrasound time series" - M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, D.R. Siemens, E Sauerbrei, P. Isotalo, A. Boag, P. Abolmaesumi
The 3rd Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing, Toronto, ON, March 2008.
Research Chair
Janice Glasgow
Queen's University
International Faculty Award
James Cordy
IBM
Fellowship
James Cordy
IBM
Excellence in Research (Nomination)
James Cordy
Queen's University
Excellence in Graduate Supervision
James Cordy
Queen's University
Distinguished Scientist
James Cordy
ACM
Best Reviewer Award
James Cordy
15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Distinguished Lecturer
Hossam Hassanein
IEEE Communication Society
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
"Subverting Prediction in Adversarial Settings" - J. Dutrisac and D.B. Skillicorn
IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2008, June 2008. Taiwtlft, 19-24
Best Paper Award (Nomination)
"Determining the Impact of Prior Code Changes" - German D.M., G. Robles, and A.E. Hassan
The 8th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), pages 184-193, 2008.

2007

Best Paper Award
"Optimal Channel Assignment in Multihop Cellular Networks" - Tam, Y.H., Benkoczi, R., Hassanein, H.S., and Akl, S.G.
IEEE Globecom 2007 Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Washington D.C.
Design Award (Top 10)
Roel Vertegaal
Popular Mechanics
Best Paper Award (Second Place)
"Streaming Random Forests" - H. Abdulsalem, D. Skillicorn and P. Martin
IEEE Joint Workshop on Multimedia Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Waterloo, Oct 2007
Best Paper Award
"Conceptual Framework for a Comprehensive Service Management Middleware" - Farhana Zulkernine and Patrick Martin
The 2nd International IEEE Workshop on Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE), May 2007 , pp. 56-63.
Best Technical Demonstration Award
"Enhanced Biopsy Guidance System for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis" - M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, P. Isotalo, R. Siemens, E. Sauerbrei, A. Boag, P. Abolmaesumi
IRIS/Precam Intelligent Systems Conference, Montreal, June 2007
Best Poster Award
"A Software System for Automatic Detection of Prostate Cancer Based on Time Series of Ultrasound RF Signals" - M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, P. Isotalo, R. Siemens, E. Sauerbrei, A. Boag, P. Abolmaesumi
IRIS/Precam Intelligent Systems Conference, Montreal, June 2007
Best Paper Award (Third Place)
"Time Series of RF Ultrasound Echoes: A Source for Tissue Characterizing Information" - M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, P.A. Isotalo, D.R. Siemens, E. Sauerbrei, P. Abolrnaesumi
The 2nd Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing, University of Western Ontario, March 2007
Best Paper Award
"Time Series of RF Ultrasound Echoes: A Source for Tissue Characterizing Information" - M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, P.A. Isotalo, D.R. Siemens, E. Sauerbrei, P. Abolmaesumi
Annual Joint Meeting of Queen's and Royal Military College, March 2007
Best Paper Award
"DIRT: A Trust Model For Pervasive Applications" - S. Bulusu, S. Ahamed, and M. Zulkernine
The Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous & Trustworthy Computing (TwUC), PP. 169-178, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 2007
Invited Participant
Janice Glasgow
NIH Documentary: Women in Bioinformatics
Invited Keynote
James Cordy
CUSEC 2007, Canadian University Software Engineering Conference
Excellence in Research (Nomination)
James Cordy
Queen's University
Excellence in Graduate Supervision (Nomination)
James Cordy
Queen's University
Best Reviewer Award
James Cordy
IEEE 15th International Conference on Program Comprehension
Distinguished Speaker
Hossam Hassanein
International Conference on Mathematics Trends and Development
Best Paper Award
"How Resilient is WSN Grid-based Coverage to Deployment Errors?" - G. Takahara, K. Xu and H.S. Hassanein
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networks (WCNC), Mar. 2007, pp. 2872-2877
Distinguished Service Award
Bob Crawford
Queen's University
Best Paper Award
Bob Crawford
Partner (publication)

2006

The McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising
Gabor Fichtinger

2005

Prize for Excellence in Research
Selim Akl
Queen's University
Recognition Award
Bob Crawford
Student Affairs & Services Association of Canada
Award for Service
Bob Crawford
Canadian Association of College & University Student Services

2004

The Michael J Rodden Award
Bob Crawford
Queen's University Athletics

2002

Data Mining and Discovery (KDD) cup
Parvin Mousavi
International conference on Knowledge

1995

Award for Entrepreneurship in Technology Innovation
James Cordy
ITRC Chair

1994

Innovation Excellence Award
James Cordy
ITRC Bank of Montreal

1985

Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
Bob Crawford
Queen's University