Awards Received by Prof. Mahbub Hassan's PhD Students
- 2024:
- Best PhD Forum Presentation Award, SenSys 2024: "Toward Adaptive Visible Light Positioning", Jiawei (Gary) Hu.
- Best Paper Runner-Up Award, IPSN 2024: "LiDARSpectra: Indoor Spectral Mapping with Low-cost LiDARs", Jiawei (Gary) Hu and Yanxiang Wang.
- 2023:
- ACM SIGCOMM Student Travel Award (USD 1500): Yanxiang Wang
- 2019:
- Nominated by the School of Computer Science and Engineering (single nomination from the entire school) for 2019 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Best Engineering PhD Thesis at UNSW, Guohao Lan
- Travel-award and invitation to present PhD research at 2019 EPFL Engineering PhD Summit, Dong Ma
- 2018:
- Best Demo Runner-up Award, ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018, for "Demo Abstract: Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Sensing using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester", Dong Ma
- Best Paper Award, Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM) 2018 for "Performance Analysis of the Access Link of Drone Base Station Networks", Azade Fotouhi
- ACM SIGMOBILE Student Travel Award (USD 1,270), ACM MobiCom 2018, for "Gesture Recognition with Transparent Solar Cells: A Feasibility Study", Dong Ma
- IEEE TCPP Student Travel Award (USD 500), IEEE PerCom 2018, for "HiddenCode: Hidden Acoustic Signal Capture with Vibration Energy Harvesting", Guohao Lan
- Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship, UNSW, Najm Hassan
- 2017:
- John Makepeace Bennett Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation, Sara Khalifa
- Best PhD Forum Paper Award, IEEE PerCom 2017, for "Energy-efficient Acoustic Communication using Vibration Energy Harvesting", Guohao Lan
- IEEE TCCC Student Travel Award (USD 500), IEEE PerCom 2017, for "VEH-COM: Demodulating Vibration Energy Harvesting for Short Range Communication", Guohao Lan
- First Prize in IEEE Australia Council Postgraduate Student Paper Competition, for "VEH-COM: Demodulating Vibration Energy Harvesting for Short Range Communication", Guohao Lan
- Winner of 2017 School of Computer Science and Engineering 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) Competition, Azade Fotouhi.
- 2017 Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Award (Merit recipient, Research and Development Category) for "KEH-Sense: a game-changing technology in the drive towards self-powered wearable devices" Sara Khalifa and Guohao Lan
- 2017 National iAwards Research and Development Innovation of the year (merit recipient), Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Sara Khalifa and Guohao Lan
- 2017 NSW iAwards Mobility Innovation of the year (Winner), Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Sara Khalifa and Guohao Lan
- 2017 NSW iAwards Research and Development Innovation of the year (Winner), Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Sara Khalifa and Guohao Lan
- 2016:
- Nominated by the School of Computer Science and Engineering (only 2 nominations from the entire school) for 2016 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Best Engineering PhD Thesis at UNSW, Sara Khalifa
- NASSCOM Student Innovation Award 2016 for "Tetherless Small Cell Base Stations using Drone Platforms", Azade Fotouhi
- Judges' Highly Recommended in NASSCOM Student Innovation Awards for "Efficient Use of Kinetic Energy Harvesting for Self-powered Wearables" Sara Khalifa and Guohao Lan
- Best Work-in-Progress Paper Award, IEEE PerCom 2016 for "Transportation Mode Detection using Kinetic Energy Harvesting Wearables", Guohao Lan and Sara Khalifa
- Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship, NICTA, Sara Khalifa
- 2015:
- Finalist (top 3 in the entire UNSW Engineering) for 2015 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Best Engineering PhD Thesis at UNSW, Eisa Zarepour.
- Best Poster Award, IEEE Technologies of Future (ITOF) for "Tracking Activities from Body's Kinetic Energy: Enabling Battery-less Wearables", Sara Khalifa
- Canon Information Systems Australia (CISRA) Best Research Paper Award at UNSW for "Pervasive Self-powered Human Activity Recognition without the Accelerometer", Sara Khalifa
- Session Best Paper Award, IEEE ITNAC 2015 for "Empirical Evaluation of MDP-based DASH Player", Ayub Bokani
- Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship, UNSW, Eisa Zarepour
- Best Presentation Prize, UNSW Engineering Postgraduate Research Symposium, Sara Khalifa
- Best Paper Award at the 14th Asia Pacific Doctoral Students (APRU) Conference 2015, Ayub Bokani
- 2014:
- Best Demo Award, ACM CONEXT workshop VideoNext for "Empirical Evaluation of Real-Time Video Foveation", Ayub Bokani
- NASSCOM Student Innovation Award for "Improving Gas-to-Liquid Fuel Catalysis via Nano-scale Sensor Networks", Eisa Zarepour
- UNSW Innovator of the Year (People's Choice) for "Nano Sensor Networks for Improving the Performance of Chemical Reactors", Eisa Zarepour
- Best PhD Forum Paper Award, IEEE WoWMoM 2014 for "Adaptive Protocols for Nano-scale Sensor Networks over Composition Varying Channels", Eisa Zarepour
- Best Poster Presentation, IEEE Technologies of Future (ITOF) for "Efficient Communication Protocols for Nano-scale Sensor Networks", Eisa Zarepour