Honors/Awards
- Second Prize in the Student Paper Competition, T. Kuganeswaran, X. Fernando
and L. Guan, 'A pixel
based dynamic algorithm for correlation noise estimation in distributed video
coding' at Sarnoff Symposium 2009, Princeton University, New Jersey USA
- IEEE COMSOC Chapter Achievement Award,
2008, Picture1, Picture2,
Picture3
- Supervisor of the student project
featured in Toronto Star Newspaper and Cable Pulse TV
- IEEE Toronto Section, Exemplary Service Award 2007
- First Prize winner of the student paper competition, Canadian
Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'2001), May 2001,
Picture 1, Picture
2
- Supervisor of the first prize winning student poster presentation, Opto-Canada,
SPIE conference, Ottawa, 2002
- Supervisor of the first price winning paper, Communications and Signal Processing,
International Conference for Upcoming Engineers,
May 2003
- Nominated for IEEE Professor of the Award twice by students at Ryerson
University
- Gold Medal nominee for the Masters work at Telecommunication Programs,
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand,
1994
- First (of 250) in Dean’s list, Faculty of Eng., University
of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1987
- NSERC (Canadian Federal Government) postgraduate
scholarship winner, 1998-2000.
- ICORE (Informatic Circle of Research
Excellence, Alberta, Canada) scholarship winner, 1999-2000
- TRLabs telecommunications research
scholarship winner, 1997-2001
- FINNIDA
(Finnish International Development Agency) scholarship winner, 1993-94
