Services & Awards

Awards and Honors

  1. IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Professional Member into the Eta Chapter of the Board of Governors, 2025.

  2. FulBright Canada Research Chair in Computers, Science, and Engineering, Florida Polytechnic University, 2025–2026.

  3. CSME Mechatronics Medal Award, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering, Canada, 2025.

  4. Fellow of CAE, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Canada, 2023.

  5. Fellow of CSME, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering, Canada, 2023.

  6. Fellow of EIC, Engineering Institute of Canada, Canada, 2021.

  7. Fellow of ASME, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA, 2017.

  8. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2016.

  9. Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, 2008–2009.


Sample Recent Professional Activities

  1. Senior Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2023 ~ Present.

  2. Associate Editor, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 2025 ~ Present.

  3. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2025 ~ Present.

  4. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2025 ~ Present.

  5. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023 ~ 2025.

  6. Associate Editor, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2023 ~ Present.

  7. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2016 ~ 2023.

  8. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2019 ~ 2021.

  9. Technical Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2015 ~ 2020.

  10. Editorial Board, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2023 ~ Present.

  11. Associate Editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2007 ~ 2013.

  12. Editor, Women in IES News Column, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2023 ~ 2025.

  13. Associate Editor, IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, July 2024.

  14. Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, Italy, December 2024.

  15. Guest Editor, Special Issue, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 2024 ~ 2026.

  16. Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, 2023 ~ 2025.

  17. Program Committee, 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 2026.

  18. Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Maui, Hawaii, Oct. 2023.

  19. Associate Editor (2016–2023), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), multiple locations.

  20. Guest Associate Editor, IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2022.

  21. Guest Editor, Focused Section, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics & IEEE AIM Emerging Topics, 2022.

  22. Associate Editor, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Boston, USA, June 2020.

  23. National Organizing Committee & Registration Chair, IFAC SSC/TDS/LPV Workshops, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2022.

  24. Diversity and Inclusion Chair, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Vancouver, August 2026.

  25. Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2024–2025.

  26. Technical Program Chair, IECON Integration, Control and Robotics, Madrid, Spain, October 2025.

  27. Program Co-Chair, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Hangzhou, July 2025.

  28. Women-in-Engineering Co-Chair (2021–2026), IEEE Industrial Electronics Society conferences.

  29. Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Wuhan, China, May 2023.

  30. Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Anchorage, USA, June 2022.

  31. Program Co-Chair, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Sapporo, Japan, July 2022.

  32. CSME Mechatronics, Robotics and Control Technical Committee Member, 2022 ~ Present.

  33. Vice President for Membership Activities, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2025 ~ Present.

  34. Chair, Women in Engineering, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2023 ~ Present.

  35. Chair, IEEE IES Distinguished Lecture Committee, 2023 ~ Present.

  36. NSERC Discovery Grant Evaluation Group (Mechanical Engineering), Canada, 2017 ~ 2020.

  37. NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Selection Committee, Canada, 2016 ~ 2017.

  38. Vice-President, Atlantic Region, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), 2018 ~ 2020.