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June 2013:
Dean's
Convocation Medal from Simon Fraser University
I'm honored to receive the award of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation
Medal as one of SFU's most outstanding graduate students from the Faculty of
Applied Sciences... Many thanks to Simon Fraser University for being such a
great home for me! Not only it totally changed my career path, it is changing my
whole life now!
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May 2013:
Many thanks to
the
Canadian Image Processing and Pattern
Recognition Society (CIPPRS) to grant the CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award
2012 (Honorable Mention) to my thesis and research in skin cancer prevention and
diagnosis entitled "Towards Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Skin Cancer:
Computer-Aided Analysis of Dermoscopy Images". This award is given annually to
the top thesis in the areas relevant to computer vision, robot vision, robotics,
medical imaging, image processing or pattern recognition at a Canadian
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October 2012:
My
research and thesis received The
Innovation Challenge Award 2012
(Honorable Mention) from NSERC in October 2012. The Innovation Challenge Awards honour
graduate students in the natural sciences or engineering who have demonstrated
an entrepreneurial spirit by identifying ways in which their research thesis
results can be developed into products and processes to benefit Canadians.
Thanks to NSERC for hosting us in Ottawa for the award ceremony. I received my
award from Dr. Goodyear Canada's Minister of State (Science and Technology).
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Innovation Challenge Award
Recipients with the Honourable James Edwards, Chair of NSERC Council, Dr.
Suzanne Fortier, President of NSERC and The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister
of State (Science and Technology)
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December
2011:
Our
UV Canada iPhone app won the
poster award of Population Health and Health Sciences at the
BC Cancer Agency
Annual Cancer Conference
2011. The objective of this project is to
provide a user friendly interactive tool that helps Canadian
residents to receive daily notifications about the latest status
of UV radiation and weather forecasts with simple-to-understand
information about UV as well as medical information to raise
awareness in dealing with UV hazards, in order to reduce skin
cancer.
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November
2011: I have been awarded the Silver
Medal of
ACM Student Research Competition
from Microsoft Research in the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women
conference that was held from 9-12 Nov 2011 in Portland,
Oregon. Many thanks to Anita Borg Institute for Women and
Technology (ABI), and Microsoft Research.
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July 2011:
I have been selected for
ACM Student Research Competition
of Microsoft Research from
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women
conference which will be held from 9-12 Nov 2011 in
Portland, Oregon. I will present my research in two rounds for
the competition jury. I am so excited about that :)
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June 2011:
Our UV Canada iPhone app is
featured on Global National TV. You can download the app from
iTunes Appstore. It is a
free app for skin cancer awareness and prevention, donated by
our team to BC Cancer Agency and Vancouver General Hospital. The
application has been downloaded over 20,000 times and was the
second top app in the weather category of iTunes Appstore in the
summer time. It has also been the hottest free application (in
all categories) of Canada for 2 weeks. We are extending the app
for US, Europe, Australia and Asia as well.
Download
my interview.
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May 2011:
The summary of my image processing methods
developed for detecting malignant melanoma features of skin
lesions, which was submitted to thee
22nd World Congress of Dermatology
(Korea-2011), won the Gold award of the congress among
over 2400 submissions. This is the most prestigious conference
of the field which is held every 4 years.
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August 2010:
Our new approach, "A novel method
for detection of pigment network in dermoscopic images using
graphs", has been featured on the
cover page of "Special Issue: Skin Cancer Imaging", Computerized
Medical Imaging and Graphics Journal, volume (35).
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