Awards

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) 2009

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) “for contributions to interactive haptic audio visual systems” 2009

ACM Multimedia 2009 Grand Challenge Most Entertaining Award for the “HugMe: Synchronous Haptic Teleconferencing” System

BEST Paper Award for “ALPHAN: A Haptic Enabled Protocol with Multi-User Collaboration”, at ACM/IEEE DS-RT 2008

2008 Professional of the Year Award, Canadian Lebanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry