Awards
- Holder of the NSERC-Hydro-Quebec-Schneider Electric Senior Industrial Research Chair since 2016
- Awarded an Inria International Chair for 2016-2020
- Inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2015
- Holder of a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) from 2011 to 2016
- Recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2009-2010
- Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
- The paper A Semidefinite Optimization Approach for the Single-Row Layout Problem with Unequal Dimensions (co-authored with A. Kennings and A. Vannelli) was a Top-10 Cited Paper in the journal Discrete Optimization for the period 2005-2010
- Recipient of the Méritas Best Teacher Award (Graduate-level Mathematics) from École Polytechnique de Montréal for 2011-2012
- Recipient of an Outstanding Performance Award from the University of Waterloo in 2007
- Recipient of two Distinguished Performance Awards from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, in 2006 and 2009
- Awarded the Best Poster Prize at the International Workshop on Large-Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming 2004 for the poster entitled Towards an SDP-based Algorithm for the Satisfiability Problem