Academic Awards

1. 1. ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar
   2. 2019-2024 World’s Top 2% Scientists (Single Year)
   3. 2022-2024 World’s Top 2% Scientists (Career)
   4. Editorial Contribution Award, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer Nature, 2025, 2026
   5. Best Poster Award, 2024 3rd International Symposium on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ISCAI 2024), November 2024
   6. Selected Best Works from Biometrics 2022, IJCB 2022
   7. FST Teaching Excellence Award (Nominee of the UM Teaching Excellence Award) 2025/2026
   8. FST Teaching Excellence Award 2020/2021
   9. Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), “Multi-stage image denoising with the wavelet transform,” Best Paper Award – Honourable Distinction, 2023 – 2024
   10. Blog, IEEE Signal Processing Society, “Coarse-to-fine CNN for image super-resolution”: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/blog/coarse-fine-cnn-image-super-resolution
   11. Lotfi Zadeh Best Paper Award, 17^th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) and 15^th International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR), July 2018
   12. Retina Online Challenge Microaneurysm Detection 2009, placing 2^nd (http://roc.healthcare.uiowa.edu/)