Congrats to Dr. Jiequ Ji! She has been awarded a Qiming Talent Award, 2025. 

Pooria Seyed Eftetahi earned Third Place in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) 4-Minute Thesis (4MT) competition at IEEE ICC 2025 in Montreal! He presented his Ph.D. research on leveraging Machine Learning for LEO satellite networks to an international audience of researchers and industry experts.

Congrats to Dr. Chengcheng Zhao! She has been awarded a Youth Changjiang Scholar award, 2024. 

Recently, the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Vancouver announced the outcome of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad at Vancouver serving area, in which Pu Yang, a Ph.D. candidate at CNLab, was awarded for A class.

The Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad is the highest government award granted by the Chinese government to Chinese doctoral students who study overseas, as well as postdoctoral researchers who conduct research and have received doctorates overseas. It was established in 2003 by the China Scholarship Council under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

Congratulations to Pu Yang!

On September 3, 2024, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced the election of new Fellows into their esteemed ranks, in which Dr. Lin Cai was newly elected as a Fellow of RSC.

Fellows are Canada’s most eminent scholars who make remarkable contributions in academia and Canadian public life. Members of the College are academics less than 15 years from the date of their PhD. There are currently 2,524 Fellows and 436 members of the College of New Scholars in Canada.

Congrats to Dr. Yongmin Zhang! He has been awarded a Youth Changjiang Scholar award, 2023. 

On June 5, 2023, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced the election of 55 new Fellows into their esteemed ranks. Dr. Lin Cai has been recognized as a CAE Fellow, 2023. 

“Over the past 36 years, Fellows of the Academy have provided engineering leadership in the fields of education, infrastructure, innovation, energy, transportation, and many more,” said Soheil Asgarpour, President of the CAE, during the announcement. “New Fellows have been selected for their outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around the world and for their service as role models in their fields and to their communities.”

IEEE announced the election outcome for IEEE Fellow. Dr. Lin Cai is named an IEEE Fellow for her contributions to topology control of wireless networks.  

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The IEEE is the world’s leading professional organization for advancing technology for humanity.

Canada’s 2019 Top Natural Sciences and Engineering Researchers Awards Celebration was held on May 6, 2019. Dr. Lin Cai received a 2019 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, the highest honor bestowed on young science and engineering professors by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Established in 1965, up-to six E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding and highly promising faculty members across all science and engineering fields. Cai is the first woman in Electrical & Computer Engineering to receive this prestigious award, presented by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada at Rideau Hall on May 6, 2019.

Congratulations!