Awards and Achievements

Dissertation award

Publication awards

  • 2024 IEEE CNOM Test of Time Paper Award for the paper Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks (IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2013)
  • Best Paper Award, 15th IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) 2019, Halifax, Canada
  • Best Paper Award, 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2019, Paris, France
  • Best Paper Award, 13th IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) 2017, Tokyo, Japan
  • Best Paper Runner-up Award, 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST) 2013, held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2013

Honorable mention for the best paper award

  • 15th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2016, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 12th IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2016, Montreal, Canada
  • 9th IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2013, Zurich, Switzerland

Professional awards

Scholarships and funding during PhD

  • MITACS Globalink Research Award, MITACS Canada, 2018
  • UW International Experience Award, University of Waterloo, 2018
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2019-2020, 2015-2016
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship - QNX Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2018-2019
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Ross & Muriel Cheriton Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2017-2018
  • President’s Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2017-2020, 2015-2016
  • Graduate Excellence Scholarship, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2017-2018
  • GoBell Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2013-2015

Conference travel grants

  • IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) 2019
  • IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) 2017
  • IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) 2017
  • IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2016 (Not Availed) and 2014

Awards during undergraduate studies

  • University Merit Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2005 - 2008
  • Dean’s List Award, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2005 - 2009
  • 6th Place, ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest (Dhaka site), 2007
  • 8th Place, ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest (Dhaka site), 2006