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AWARDS

R.S. Jane Memorial Award (premier award of CSChE), 2022

ASTech Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Engineering, 2019

Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice, 2015

APEGA Summit Award in Research Excellence 2014

D.G. Fisher Award 2013

AITF Industry Chair in Process Control since 2013

Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering since 2012

NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Control of Oil Sands Process since 2011

Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada since 2010

2009-2010 Killam Annual Professorship award

Chang Jiang Oversea Scholar 2008

Recipient of NSERC DAS (2007-08 competition)

CSChE Syncrude Canada Innovation Award 2005

Journal of Process Control Best Paper Award, in the category "methodology / theory" for the period 2002 to 2005: Thornhill, N. F., B. Huang, and H. Zhang, Detection of multiple oscillations in control loops, Journal of Process Control, 13(1), 91-100, 2003.

Best referee award, Journal of Process Control 2006

One of the best poster paper awards for the paper “Assessment of economic performance of model predictive control through variance/constraint tuning”, 2006 IFAC ADCHEM, Brazil, April 2-5

McCalla Professorship 2005-2006

Petro-Canada Young Innovator 2003

Humboldt Research Fellowship 2003 - 2004

Honorable mention as one of five finalist papers at the IFAC World Congress for the Best IFAC Congress Applications Paper Prize 2002.

Canada Foundation for Innovation Researcher 1998

Andrew Steward Memorial Graduate Prize, University of Alberta 1996

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta 1996

Du Pont/Paprican Scholarship 1994 - 1995

University of Alberta Ph.D Scholarship, University of Alberta 1992 - 1994

 

 

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