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University of Alberta Distinguished Professor
J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research 2024 - The University of Alberta’s most prestigious research award World Ranking
Top 2% Scientist (Stanford University Lists) Highly Ranked Scholar -
World #1 in Process Control (both Lifetime & Prior 5 years) and World Top 0.05% in All Fields – ScholarGPS 2024 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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