Awards

  • CSCE Whitman Wright Award, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 2024
  • Canada Research Chair in Smart and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure (2024-2029)
  • Western Fellow and Project Lead, Western Academy for Advanced Research (2024)
  • Otto Moensted Visiting Professorship, Denmark (2023-2025)
  • Visiting Professorship, University of Perugia, Italy (2023)
  • Shastri Best Research Paper Award, Shastri Indo-Canada Institute (2023)
  • Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Western Engineering (2022)
  • Vebleo Fellow (2022)
  • CFI-JELF Research Infrastructure Funding, Canada Foundation of Innovation (2021)
  • Early Researcher Award, the Ontario Ministry of Universities and Colleges (2021)
  • Mourou/Strickland Mobility Funding Award, the France Embassy of Canada (2019)
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award from the international journal of Smart Materials and Structures (2018)
  • Merit Award for excellence in research and teaching, Lakehead University (2017)
  • Nominated for Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership (2016)
  • Doctoral Thesis Excellence Award, the University of Waterloo (2013)
  • Most Promising Young Engineer Award, General Electric (2008)
  • Gold Medal for academic excellence in graduate studies, IIT Kanpur (2007)