Lassonde’s community of changemakers recognized for prestigious accomplishments in research and impact.

The Lassonde Research Awards Celebration recognizes the outstanding achievements of Lassonde’s esteemed faculty members – from our four departments – Civil Engineering, Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering.

Lassonde Innovation Awards

Lassonde Innovation Fund

Prestigious Honours, Fellowships, and Awards

Major Grants

Knowledge Mobilization / Translation

Media Engagement

Stanford’s Top 2%

Lassonde Innovation Awards

Early Researcher Award
Awarded in recognition for the establishment of a high-quality independent research program involving HQP training.

Established Researcher Award
Awarded in recognition for the establishment of a research program of international stature, involving HQP training.

Public Engagement Award
Awarded in recognition for a commitment to promoting research using various outlets.

Graduate Mentorship Award
Awarded in recognition for an outstanding commitment to the education and training of graduate students.

Lassonde Innovation Fund

Lassonde Innovation Fund – Innovative and Risky Project (Category A)
Awarded funding for a project titled, “Electronic gene sensor for disease diagnostics purposes”.

Lassonde Innovation Fund – Innovative and Risky Project (Category A)
Awarded funding for a project titled, “Smart vibration suppression system for micromobility in-wheel-motor electric vehicles for urban transportation”.

Lassonde Innovation Fund – Innovative and Risky Project (Category A)
Awarded funding for a project titled, “Multifunctional building envelopes with integrated building capture”. Lassonde Co-Applicant Ronald Hanson, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering.

Lassonde Innovation Fund – Inter-Departmental, Multidisciplinary, and/or Inter-Faculty Project (Category B)
Awarded funding for a collaborative project titled, “Smart contact lenses (SCL) as promising alternatives to invasive vitreous sample analysis for in-situ eye disease studies”. Lassonde Co-Applicant: Pouya Rezai, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering.

Lassonde Innovation Fund – Research Projects Working Directly on or Towards one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Category C)
Awarded funding for project titled, “Controlling biofilm formation and microbial recontamination in secondary water storage containers with UV light emitting diodes and targeted cleaning procedures”. Lassonde Co-Applicant Ahmed Eldyasti, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering.

Prestigious Honours, Fellowships, and Awards

Elected as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Recognized for excellence in engineering and services to the profession and to society. Read More Here.

Appointed as an inaugural Co-Director of MTEC (Manufacturing Technology Entrepreneurship Centre).

Appointed as an inaugural Co-Director of MTEC (Manufacturing Technology Entrepreneurship Centre).

Recognized for the longest NSERC Discovery Grant holder at Lassonde and likely nationally. He has held a continuous DG since 1956.

Appointed as the inaugural Director of MOVE (Mobility Innovation Centre).

Appointed as the Director of CAIS (Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Society).

Elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Engineering Education Association. Recognized for demonstrating noteworthy service to engineering education, and engineering leadership. Read More Here.

Won the 2022 Britton Engineering Education Vanguard Award. Recognized for an early career individual who has shown commitment to the development of engineering education in Canada through practice and/or research. Read More Here.

Won the CASI McCurdy Award. Recognized for outstanding achievement in the science and creative aspects of engineering relating to aeronautics and space research. Read More Here.

Appointed as the Science Advisor to the President of CSA (Canadian Space Agency). Read More Here.

Elected as a Fellow of the Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, an organization whose purpose is to advance the development and application of AI in science and technology.

Appointed as President of the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society.

Appointed as the inaugural Director of One Water (Water Management, Artificial Intelligence, Technologies, Education and Sustainability, Resource Recovery & Reuse).

Major Grants

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including NSERC Alliance (Option 1), NSERC I2I, and York’s Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Cluster. Read More Here.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including a multi-institutional grant from the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) and the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation. Read More Here.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including NFRF and CFI.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including a multi-institutional grant from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including US government contracts.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including NSERC I2I and NSERC Alliance (Option 1).

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including NSERC CREATE (Read More Here) and NSERC Alliance (Option 1).

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including NSERC Alliance (Option 1 and 2) (Read More Here), NSERC I2I, and York’s Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Cluster. Read More Here.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including CIHR Project Grant and NSERC RTI.

Recognized for securing substantial, strategic, and competitive funding, including a SSHRC Insight Grant and a Contributions Program Grant from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Knowledge Mobilization / Translation

Received the 10-Year Most Influential Regular Paper Award (SoSyM Best Paper Awards) for a paper titled, “Modeling robustness behavior using aspect-oriented modeling to support robustness testing of industrial systems”.

Tayebeh Yousefi, under the mentorship of Prof. Kassiri, received the best student paper award at IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference for paper titled: “Biologically-Informed Computational Framework for Pathway-Specific Spiking Patterns Generation and Efficacy Evaluation in Retinal Neurostimulators”.

Co-wrote COVID/indoor air quality guidance documents, as a member of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers’ Indoor Air Quality Advisory Group.

Co-authored a textbook titled, “Engineering Surveying”. Read More Here.

Received Best Paper Award at American Society for Engineering Education St. Lawrence Section 2022 Conference for paper titled, “Visual Verbal Integrated (VIVID) Comics – A pedagogy for teaching transferable and humanistic skills in Engineering”. Lassonde Co-Author Mogjan Jadidi, Associate Professor, Earth and Space Science and Engineering.

Hosted the ORF Alliance Meeting on the Environmental Impact of Engineered Materials Degradation in Porous Consolidated Media. Brought together people from industry, academia and government working on nuclear waste management. Read More Here.

Damith Tennakoon, under the mentorship of Prof. Jadidi, received the best research poster award at American Society Engineering Education, St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference 2022 for paper titled: “Object detection & terrain mapping in the augmented reality sandbox.”

Received Professional Engineering of Ontario Certificate of Recognition for 5 years of volunteering service to the engineering profession in Ontario.

Won a Best Paper Award at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). Top among 85 accepted papers in the track.

Published book titled, “Imperial Engineers: The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill”. Read More Here.

Editor and multi-chapter author of the book titled, “Modular Treatment Approach for Drinking Water and Wastewater”.

Delivered a micro-lecture titled “The Macro Problem with Microplastics”, as part of York’s “world’s tiniest lecture hall”. Read More Here.

Led an Arctic Water Research Symposium that brought in academics and Arctic water professionals from across Canada and Greenland. Read More Here.

Helped to Revamp the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research Safe Water Optimization Tool. New innovations will help aid workers to unlock invaluable information, including water-quality data. Read More Here.

Delivered a micro-lecture exploring why the most vulnerable often face the highest flooding risks.