Research Awards

The Ontario government's Early Researcher Award goes to Ontario's most promising researchers in the first five years of their academic careers. The Early Researcher Award program is a successor to the Premier's Research Excellence Award program.

2016

• Vijay Ganesh
• Stephen L. Smith

2015

• Lin Tan

2014

• Sebastian Fischmeister
• Dana Kulic
• Christopher Wilson

2011

• Patrick Mitran

2010

• Slim Boumaiza
• Simarjeet Saini

2009

• Zhou Wang

2008

• Karim Karim
• Liang-Liang Xie

2007

• Dayan Ban
• Ehab El-Saadany

2006

• Mohammed Oussama Damen
• Ladan Tahvildari

2005

• Pin-Han Ho

The En-hui Yang Engineering Research Innovation Award is one award per year and it is awarded to an outstanding full-time faculty member in the Faculty of Engineering. This award is made possible by Professor En-hui Yang who has donated proceeds of the 2007 Ontario Premier's Catalyst Award For Innovator of the Year through SlipStream Data Inc., to encourage and support research and innovation by Waterloo Engineering faculty.

2014 - Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

The Engineering Research Excellence Awards are presented each year to tenure or tenured track faculty members in the Faculty of Engineering in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments. Three awards (one per rank) are presented annually at the Dean's Awards Dinner for Faculty and Staff. Recent recipients of the awards are listed below. For eligibility and other information about the award, please click here.

Professor Category

2015 - Guang Gong

2014 - Magdy Salama

Associate Professor Category

2016 - Simarjeet Saini

2013 - Slim Boumaiza

2012 - Dayan Ban

2011 - Hany Aziz

Assistant Professor Category

2014 - Bo Cui

2013 - Dana Kulic

2009 - Karim Karim

NSERC’s E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowships honour the memory of Dr. Edgar William Richard Steacie, an outstanding chemist and research leader who made major contributions to the development of science in Canada during, and immediately following, World War II.

Every year, NSERC awards up to six Steacie Fellowships that are held for a two-year period. Successful fellows are relieved of teaching and administrative duties, so that they can devote all their time and energy to research. The Fellowships are held at a Canadian university or affiliated research institution.

2014 - Zhou Wang