Faculty Member Awards | Waterloo Data and Artificial Intelligence Institute

Dr. Sirisha Rambhatla & Dr. Amir-Hossein Karimi (Val O’Donovan Chair Holders)

Congratulations to Dr. Sirisha Rambhatla and Dr. Amir-Hossein Karimi on their appointments as Val O’Donovan Chair holders in Engineering. Dr. Rambhatla will focus on efficient, safe, and adaptive AI, while Dr. Karimi will lead in trustworthy AI. Their world-leading research continues to advance responsible and impactful artificial intelligence.

Dr. Alexander Wong (OPEA Engineering Medal)

Congratulations to Professor Dr. Alexander Wong, P.Eng. for winning the OPEA Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship for his world-leading work in integrative medical imaging systems and responsible artificial intelligence.

Blake VanBerlo (Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship)

Congratulations to PhD candidate Blake VanBerlo for winning the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research on self-supervised learning of deep neural networks in the field of lung ultrasound imaging. For more information, visit the article here.

Shu-feng Tsao (CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship)

Congratulations to PhD candidate Shu-feng Tsao (SPHS), who received a 2-year CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship (Postdoc) at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), through working on generative AI algorithms and synthetic health data governance framework.

Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian (CAIA Best Doctoral Dissertation Award)

Congratulations to Vector Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian for being awarded the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association for 2023 for his thesis on multi-agent reinforcement learning. Click here to read more.

Nick Tornevliet and Yizhe Liu (CVPR 2023 Ultrasound Dataset Challenge)

Congratulations to Nick Tornevliet (PhD candidate) and Yizhe Liu (MaSc candidate) for winning the 2nd place in the CVPR 2023 challenge leaderboard on Deep Learning in Ultrasound Image Analysis challenge “The Ultrasound Dataset Challenge”.

Kate Larson (2025 Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)

Prof Kate Larson is sitting on the steps in the DC building.

Congratulations to Kate Larson, Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science for being named a 2025 Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for her significant contributions to the foundations of multiagent systems, and for service to the broader AI community.

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