Recipient of the Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006)
Recipient of the Early Researcher Award from the Province of Ontario (2010)
Recipient of the IBM Faculty Award (2010)
Recipient of the ICC Best Paper Award (2020)
Recipient of the JSPS Invitational Fellowship (2021)
Recipient of the ECE Instructor Award (2023)
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2014 - 2016)
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2020 - 2021)
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Modern Compression for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (2022)
Currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications
Background
Research interests include Information and Coding Theory, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Wireless Communications, Multimedia Communications, Signal and Image Processing, Data Compression and Storage, and Networking Optimization.