Awards:

NSERC (National Science and Engineering Research Council) - University Faculty Award, 2001-2006

Salary award by government of Canada to support new female professors in Engineering and Physical Science.  

Ambridge Prize, June 2000

Award for most outstanding PhD candidate in Engineering and Physical Sciences graduating from McGill in 1999-2000.  

Dean's Honours List, Fen 2000

Awarded Dean's Honour's List from McGill University for doctoral degree.  

NSERC PDF (postdoctoral fellowship) Award, 2000-2002

Award by the government of Canada to support postdoctoral research. (declined by participant 2001).  

Jeanne Timmons Costello Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2000-2001

Award for postdoctoral research at the Montreal Neurological Institute. (declined by participant when received NSERC Award).  

Best Speaker, 1999

Award for Best Speaker at the Second IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile Agents, in association with the 1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A..  

FCAR (Le Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs a l'Aide a la Recherche) Award, 1996-1997

Award by the government of Quebec to support PhD research.  

NSERC PGS B (postdoctoral fellowship) Award, 1994-1996

Award by the government of Canada to support PhD research.  

McGill Faculty Scholar, 1991

Grades in top 10% of the Faculty of Engineering during undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering.