Earlier this month, the Government of Canada announced the results of the latest round of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Discovery Grants. The Discovery Grants program supports excellent research in natural sciences and engineering and is Canada’s largest government research funding program of its kind. Three Queen’s School of Computing researchers have received support from NSERC in the current cycle.
This news follows a number of earlier successful funding announcements from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
We congratulate our faculty on the recognition and support of the federal research funding programs:
Dr. Kai Salomaa
- NSERC Discovery Grant Program, in support of the project Descriptional complexity and applications of formal languages and automata.
Dr. Yuan Tian and Dr. Bram Adams
- NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Program, in support of the project An experimental platform to comparatively evaluate large pre-trained models on SE tasks.
Dr. Hesham Elsawy and Dr. Salimur Choudhury
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leadership Fund (JELF) Program, in support of the project Diverse, perceptive, and intelligent wireless infrastructure for 6G and beyond.
Dr. Gabor Fichtinger
- National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Ideation Fund, in support of the project Open-source implementation and evaluation of low-cost hand- and finger-tracking technology for fine motor skill assessment.
Dr. Ting Hu
- National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Collaborative Science, Technology, and Innovation Program, in support of a project in partnership with the University of Ottawa, The digital mouse – a digital twin of behavioral indices of neurodegeneration and associated metabolic determinants for explainable in silico therapy design.