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25-11-18 Congrats to Atallah Madi, who received a best oral presentation award at the 9th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI 2025), Manchester, UK.

25-05-02 Congrats to Atallah Mad,i who was awarded a prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

25-05-01 Congrats to Yehan De Silva, Pathum Danthanarayana, and Michael Kyrollos, who received 1st place in the 4th-Year Capstone Project Video Competition for their project PillPix: AI-Powered Mobile Application for Pill Recognition and Counting, which was co-supervised by Professor Safaa Bedawi.

24-06-01 Adrian Chan was named a Fellow of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society.

24-05-08 Congrats to Atallah Madi, who was awarded a prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

24-05-08 Congrats to Afsoon Khodaee, co-supervised by Dr. Eran Ukwatta (School of Engineering, University of Guelph), who was awarded a prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship.23-11-06 Neonatal transport project, led by Dr. Robert Langlois, Dr. James Green, and Dr. Adrian Chan, featured in the article Keeping Babies Safe in Medical Transit.

23-10-30 Jinu Kurian featured as part of Carleton University’s 2023 Throwback Week: Decoding Complexity in Medical Algorithms.

23-08-21 Alicia Gal featured by BayToday: Alicia Gal’s fitness philosophy earns well deserved recognitions.

23-08-21 Congrats to Alicia Gal, who was recently nationally recognized as a Top 3 Finalist for CanFitPro – Fitness Professional of the Year.

23-05-23 Congrats to Emma Farago for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Biomedical Signal Quality Analysis of Electromyogram Signals” and being nominated for a Senate Medal for outstanding graduate work.

23-03-15 Adrian Chan is interviewed on The Talking Raven Podcast, Meet of Faculties: Engineering and Design Edition.

23-03-01 Adrian Chan receives a 2023 Research Achievement Award from Carleton University.

22-06-05 Congrats to Mohamed Abdelazez (co-supervised Dr. Sreeraman Rajan) who is being awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for his Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

22-04-08 Congrats to Afsoon Khodaee, co-supervised by Dr. Eran Ukwatta (School of Engineering, University of Guelph), who was awarded a prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

21-12-06 On the U.N. International Day for Persons With Disabilities (Dec 3), Dr. Adrian Chan joins NOW with Dave Brown to talk about the work he and his colleagues do at Carleton University’s Abilities Living Laboratory (starting at 77:30).

21-03-08 New funding awarded to Dr. Adrian Chan! Canada Foundation for Innovation funding for the Abilities Living Laboratory will enable academic researchers and community partners to co-create accessibility solutions.

20-07-29Congrats to Kristen Beange, co-supervised by Dr. Ryan Graham (School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa) and Emma Farago who were both awarded a prestigious NSERC PGS-D scholarship.

20-06-10 Rachel Zhang, co-supervised by Kim Greenwood (Director, Clinical Engineering, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) received the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal – Young Engineer.

20-04-23 Alicia Gal was featured in the inaugural Carleton University Pathway Podcast.

20-03-06 Dr. Adrian Chan was a judge at the Inter-University Iron Chef Competition.

Archived News

19-10-01 Congrats to Fadwa Darwaish, co-supervised by Dr. James Green and Dr. Robert Langlois (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) who received a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).

19-10-01 Congrats to Kristen Beange, co-supervised by Dr. Ryan Graham (School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa) who received a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).

19-08-28 Alicia Gal was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Nipissing University

19-08-26 Emma Farago, Curtis Lacelle, and Fadwa Darwaish were featured in the latest CMBES Newsletter providing reflections on their CMBEC42 conference experience.

19-03-02 Emma Farago was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).

19-02-01 Mohamed Abdelazez (co-supervised Dr. Sreeraman Rajan) participated in the Elevator Pitch competition at the University of Ottawa Health Symposium (UOHS) on the reduction of false alarms in Myocardial Ischemia monitoring and won first place.

19-01-12 Alicia Gal’s talked about her research on Sledge Hockey as part of the Museum of Science and Technology’s Curiosity on Stage series READi for Sport Part 2 – Technology and Innovation.

18-11-20 Adrian Chan was featured in The Globe and Mail “No barriers to participation” for his work with the NSERC CREATE Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi).

18-11-20 Mohamed Abdelazez (co-supervised Dr. Sreeraman Rajan) participated in the IET Present Around the World (PATW) competition. He won the Americas regionals and was the Americas representative at the Global Finals (London UK).

18-11-20 Emma Farago was awarded the CU75 Scholarship offered by the Faculty of Engineering and Design.

18-06-08 Jinu Kurian received 2nd place in the student paper competition at the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (CMBEC41), a joint conference this year with the Atlantic Canada Clinical Engineering Society (ACCES).

18-02-07 Alicia Gal’s research on Sledge Hockey featured in the Ottawa Citizen: How a Carleton student is using science to help sledge hockey hopefuls and the Ottawa Sun: The science of sledge hockey: How a Carleton student is helping out.

18-02-01 Alicia Gal’s research on Sledge Hockey featured in Independent Sports News: Innovative Research in Sledge Hockey Skating.

18-01-17 David (Chao-Chia) Lu and Mohamed Abdelazez featured in a story: Engineering a Data-Drive Health-Care Revolution.

18-01-02 Alicia Gal’s research on Sledge Hockey featured as a Graduate Student Research story: Grad Research Could Help Olympic Sledge Hockey Athletes.

17-12-18 Jinu Kurian was awarded the Marie Carter Memorial Scholarship.

17-12-05 Adrian Chan was interviewed about the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Program on The Pulse on AMI-audio. You can listen to the interview here.

17-11-27 Adrian Chan received an NSERC CREATE for the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) Program as the Principle Investigator.

17-10-04 Sina Salsabili was awarded an Ontario Trillium Scholarship in the 2016/17 academic year.

17-09-26 Alicia Gal was selected as a finalist for the Young Investigators Award, Own The Podium 2017 SPort INovation (SPIN) Summit

17-05-06 David (Chao-Chia) Lu receives an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2017/18 academic year.

17-05-06 Mohamed Abdelazez receives a prestigous Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

17-05-06 Mohamed Abdelazez receives an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2016/17 academic year.

17-04-06 The Integrated Concussion Assessment System (I-CAS), with George Hanna, Maryam Kaka, Vicky Madge, and Adam Birosh won Best multidisciplinary project award Ottawa Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Paper Competition.

17-03-31 Nathanael Fung received 3rd place in the Carleton University Data Day 4.0 poster competition.

17-03-30 The Integrated Concussion Assessment System (I-CAS), with George Hanna, Maryam Kaka, Vicky Madge, and Adam Birosh won first place in the IEEE Eastern Ontario Student Paper Competition.

17-03-23 The Integrated Concussion Assessment System (I-CAS), with George Hanna, Maryam Kaka, Vicky Madge, and Adam Birosh won first place in the Carleton University IEEE Paper Competition.

17-02-03 Adrian Chan receives a Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award.

16-11-12 Mohamed Abdelazez’s M.A.Sc. thesis on Electrocardiogram Signal Quality Analysis to Reduce False Positives in Myocardial Ischemia Monitoring received a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

16-10-14 Mohamed Abdelazez received the IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Service Award.

16-09-19 Mohamed Abdelazez’s M.A.Sc. thesis on Electrocardiogram Signal Quality Analysis to Reduce False Positives in Myocardial Ischemia Monitoring was nominated for a Carleton University Senate medal.

16-06-15 Congrats to Mohamed Abdelazez for receiving the 2016 Adrian D. C. Chan Award for Volunteer and Community Service.

16-05-10 Congrats to Hoda Dehghan whose PhD thesis was nominated for a University Medal.

15-11-27 Congrats to David Lu who received the 3rd place IMPACT (Identification of Marketable Products, Applications and Commercializable Technologies) Award at the OHRI Research Day.

15-09-14 Adrian Chan’s family profiled in the Running Room Magazine.

15-06-15 Congrats to Phil Tworzydlo who received 3rd place for the IFBME Young Investigator Competition at World Congress 2015, Toronto, Canada.

15-06-15 Adrian Chan receives CMBES Outstanding Biomedical Engineer of the Year Award.

15-05-29 Congrats to Geoff Clarke whose thesis research was nominated for a Carleton University Senate medal.

15-05-01 Congrats to Mohamed Abdelazez who received a Department of Systems and Computer Engineering Teaching Assistant Award for the 2014/15 academic year.

15-03-17 Congrats to Phil Tworzydlo who was selected as one of the 10 finalists for the IFMBE Young Investigator Competition at World Congress 2015, Toronto, Canada.

15-03-16 Congrats to Mohamed Abdelazez who was nominated for the Carleton University Outstanding TA Award.

15-03-03 Mohamed Abdelazez was a finalist in the 2015 Carleton University 3 Minute Thesis Competition.

14-11-09 Alicia Gal (co-supervised by Prof. Dean C. Hay, Nipissing University) received the 2014 Carleton University Graduate Student Association Honour Award, which recognizes those graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding commitment and dedication to Carleton, and the graduate community specifically.

14-09-02 Dororthy-Jane Smith, co-supervised by Dr. Roy Hanes (School of Social Work) and Dr. Dominique Marshall (Department of History), was interviewed on CBC’s All In A Day on Friday August 31, 2014 for her work on the (Un)Changing Wheelchair exhibit.

14-05-29 Alicia Gal featured by TechGirls Canada on their Portraits of Strengths series (“STEM who have helped break barriers and achieved great things within their industry”)

14-05-23 Dr. Adrian Chan discusses the future of engineering in The Globe and Mail “The right stuff: Developing skills for specialized demands”

14-03-28 Generic Human Device Interface 4th year project team of Francis Papineau, Mohamed Abdelazez, Mohamed Abdalla, and Sugaal Daher received 1st place in the Student Experience in Engineering and Design (SEED) Fund Innovation Showcase.

14-03-28 Generic Human Device Interface 4th year project team of Francis Papineau, Mohamed Abdelazez, Mohamed Abdalla, and Sugaal Daher received 3rd place in the Carleton IEEE paper competition.

14-03-28 Generic Human Device Interface 4th year project team of Francis Papineau, Mohamed Abdelazez, Mohamed Abdalla, and Sugaal Daher received 2nd place in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering poster fair.

13-06-10 Research collaboration on ischemia monitoring for post-operative patients with Dr. Homer Yang (Department of Anesthesiology, The Ottawa Hospital) is featured in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Dialogue Magazine.

13-04-10 Adrian Chan is named a Provost Teaching Fellow.

13-05-07 Adrian Chan receives a Carleton University Research Achievement Award.

13-04-10 Queeny Shaath (co-supervised by Dr. Doron Nussbaum, School of Computer Science, and Kim Greenwood, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) receives an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.

13-03-14 Karen McCarthy (co-supervised by Dr. Donald Russell) is quoted in the Charlatan on her involvement in the Three Minute Thesis competition.

12-11-06 Varsha Caugai (co-supervised by Dr. Andy Adler and Timothy Zakutney, University of Ottawa Heart Institute) is featured by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in a story titled A “Shocking” Thesis Topic.

12-08-07 Queeny Shaath (co-supervised by Dr. Doron Nussbaum, School of Computer Science and Kim Greenwood, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) receives an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

12-07-03 Adam Freed (co-supervised by Dr. Edward Lemaire, Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development, The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, and Dr. Avi Parush, Department of Psychology) received first place in the student paper competition in the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Halifax NS, 2012.

12-06-21 Adrian Chan receives the 3M Teaching Fellowship by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

12-03-30 Adrian Chan receives the Best Professor Award from the Carleton Student Engineering Society.

12-04-11 Graham Fraser (co-supervised by Dr. James Green) is featured by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in a story titled Grad Student Flexes his Research Muscles.

11-06-20 Saba Rahimi (co-supervised by Dr. Rafik Goubran) was one of the winners of the student poster competition for hSite Annual Research Review 2011.

11-03-24 Solomon Fung, Ivan Krotnev, Paul Ma, and Mark Totten (co-supervised by Dr. Trevor Pearce) receives 2nd Place at the IEEE Paper Competition 2011 for the Smart Rollator project.

11-03-23 Graham Fraser (co-supervised by Dr. James Green) receives an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.

11-03-01 Marina Gobrial (co-supervised by Dr. Jeff Dawson, Department of Biology) receives an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.

10-05-17 Adam Freed (co-supervised by Dr. Edward Lemaire, Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development, The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, and Dr. Avi Parush, Department of Psychology) receives the Allan Buchanan Scholarship.

09-11-11 Aliasgar Morbi (co-supervised by Dr. Mojtaba Ahmadi and Dr. Robert Langlois, Department of Mechanical and Aerospacing Engineering) received a Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Master’s Level Fall 2009.

09-06-05 Aliasgar Morbi (co-supervised by Dr. Mojtaba Ahmadi and Dr. Robert Langlois, Department of Mechanical and Aerospacing Engineering) received the Outstanding Research Award, Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Calgary AB, 2009.

09-04-16 Adrian Chan receives Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award

09-02-25 Solomon Fung (co-supervised by Dr. Andy Adler) receives an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.

09-02-25 Owen Wetherow (co-supervised by Dr. James Green) receives an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.

08-06-16 Mehran Talebinejad (co-supervised by Dr. Ali Miri, University of Ottawa) received an third place in the student paper competition in the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Montreal PQ, 2008.

08-06-16 Dragan Trifkovic and Daanish Khan (co-supervised by Dr. Sreeraman Rajan, DRDC) were finalists in the 2008 IEEE Innovate Canada FPGA Programming Competition for their work “Heart rate estimator using phonocardiogram (PCG) signals for automated unobtrusive heart rate estimation”

08-04-17 Brian Earl and Davide Agnello received NSERC best research project for senior design project Smart Rollator Usage Monitoring (co-supervised by Dr. James Green).

08-04-17 Smart Rollator Industrial Design Team (Justin Frappier, Silvan Linn, Chris Ledda, and Shyta Roy) has been selected as finalists to represent the Carleton School of Industrial Design at the OCE Discovery Showcase

08-02-20 Davide Agnello (co-supervised by Dr. James Green) receives an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.

08-02-05 Beverly Bradley (co-supervised by Dr. John Hayes, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) receives the Allan Buchanan Scholarship.

07-06-22 Mehran Talebinejad (co-supervised by Dr. Ali Miri, University of Ottawa) received an honourable mention for the student paper competition in the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Toronto ON, 2007.

07-04-13 Marc Gobeil and Sam Nuziale received the Best Poster award for their Universal Pointer 4th year project (co-supervised by Dr. Trevor Pearce).

07-04-13 Amir Sadeghian and Chol-ho Yim received the NSERC Best Project Award for their Eye-Interact: A low-cost eye-movement controlled communication device 4th year project (co-supervised by Dr. James Green).

07-04-13 Amir Sadeghian and Chol-ho Yim received an honorable mention for the People’s Choice Award for their Eye-Interact: A low-cost eye-movement controlled communication device 4th year project (co-supervised by Dr. James Green).

07-01-30 Ahmad Rasem and Ammar AlBetar receive second place in the 2006 IEEE Canada Student Paper Competition.

06-07-31 Vesal Badee’s (co-supervised by Dr. Richard Dansereau) abstract has been selected as one of the top ten finalists for an abstract award in the Bioengineering category for the 16th World Congress of the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, Ottawa ON, 2006.

06-06-13 Nabil Yazdani received an honourable mention for the student paper competition in the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Vancouver BC, 2006.

06-04-24 Abdullah Al Dalati, Jet’aime Lowe, Lisa Meitin and Andrew Rowden received the NSERC Best Project Award for their 4th year project on Automatic Sign Language Recognition (co-supervised by Dr. Richard Dansereau).

06-04-03 Ahmad Rasem and Ammar AlBetar received second place in the Carleton University IEEE Paper Competition.

06-02-10 Ahmad Rami Abu-El-Quran (co-supervised by Dr. Rafik Goubran) receiving Best Poster Communications and Information Technology in Ontario Centres of Excellence’s Discovery 2006.