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- Awarded Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship, Germany, 1996.
- Awarded El-Hijawii (1st place) for scientific research for young investigators. For an Article (El Naqa et al., 1996) and a computer software in Visual Basic for detection of coronary artery dimensions, Jordan, 1998.
- Awarded Excellence in Laboratory Teaching from IIT (Fall 1999 and Spring 2000)
- Awarded Highest Standards of Academic Achievement, IIT, 2002
- Special recognition at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) by presenting at the Laughlin Science Council Research Symposium: Multi-modality image fusion entitled "Concurrent Multi-Modality Image Segmentation," Orlando, FL, 2006.
- Featured Article by PMB (DREES) and editorial article citation on www.medicalphysicsweb.com by Belle Dumé entitled “Software unravels radiation responses”, published Dec 7 2006.
- Medical Physics cover figure from “Concurrent Multimodality Image Segmentation by Active Contours for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning” article, 2007.
- Special recognition at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) by selection for presentation at the Laughlin Science Council Research Symposium: entitled "4DCT motion estimation and modeling," by Yang et al. (post-doc trainee) Houston, TX, 2008.
- Press release in the SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS of the 50th AAPM Meeting in Houston, 2008, about our talk for tracking tumor changes during radiotherapy entitled “New Technique to Estimate Lung Tumor Changes” written by Kathy Svitil. The article was also featured on the website: www.medicexchange.com.
- Special recognition at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) by selection for presentation at the Laughlin Science Council Research Symposium: entitled " Image-Based Scoring of Radiation Injury in Lung for Dose-Effect Correlations: Analysis of Sources of Uncertainties," by Lee et al. (graduate student with Dr Seuntjens) Philadelphia, PA, 2010.
- Featured editorial by Jonathan Evans entitled “Dead ends point the way: finding robust biomarkers in limited proteomics data,” (www.separationsnow.com) on article “A Bioinformatics Approach for Biomarker Identification in Radiation-Induced Lung Inflammation from Limited Proteomics Data,” Oh et al., JPR, 2011.
- Poster award nomination (Top 30) “Integrating dosimetry and biomarkers via a Bayesian network for predicting radiotherapy response in lung cancer,” ESTRO, 2011.
- Student first prize at the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) for Non-invasive Plethysmography by James Coates et al. (undergrad with Dr Leask), 2012. Finalist for the James Dawson award, 2012.
- FRSQ (Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec) Salary Award (2012-2016), 70K/yr. (Ranked#1 in the competition), supplement covered.
- CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) New Investigator Salary Award (2012-2017), 60K/yr.
- Red journal “Outstanding Reviewer of 2012”.
- Medical Physics journal “Outstanding Reviewer of 2012”.
- Special recognition at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) by selection for presentation at the Laughlin Science Council Research Symposium: entitled " Joint FDG-PET/MR Imaging for the Early Prediction of Tumor Outcomes," by Vallieres et al. (PhD student) Indianapolis, IN, 2013.
- Red journal “Outstanding Reviewer of 2013”. Certificate of Excellence, 2013.
- Best in Physics at AAPM (Therapy category), “Radiogenomic Modeling of Normal Tissue Toxicities in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Hypofractionated Radiotherapy,” Coates et al. (Undergrad student), Austin, TX, 2014. A subsequent editorial on by Tammi Freeman (http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/research/58084).
- John R. Cameron Young Investigator Symposium at AAPM (1st place award), “Feasibility of X-Ray Acoustic Computed Tomography as a Tool for Calibration and In Vivo Dosimetry of Radiotherapy Electron and Photon Beams,” Hickling et al. (MS student), Austin, TX, 2014.
- Best in Physics at ASTRO, “Radiogenomic Modeling of Normal Tissue Toxicities in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Hypofractionated Radiotherapy,” Coates et al. (Undergrad student), San Francisco, CA, 2014.
- Basic Science Abstract Award, ASTRO, “Shining Light On the Implementation of Cherenkov Emission in Radiation Therapy,” Zlateva et al. (PhD student), San Francisco, CA, 2014.
- ASTRO 2014 highlights Vallieres et al on “Image analysis predicts therapy response” (http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/research/58949)
- J.R. Cunningham Young Investigator Symposium (1st place award), COMP, “Radiogenomic Modeling of Normal Tissue Toxicities in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Hypofractionated Radiotherapy,” Coates et al. (Undergrad student), Banff, AB, 2014.
- Physics in Medicine and Biology “Top 25 reviewers in 2013.”
- Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), Rising Stars award (declined), 2014.
- Radiotherapy and Oncology “Outstanding Reviewer Award 2014.”
- IOMP Young Investigator, “Cherenkov emission dosimetry for electron beam radiotherapy: a Monte Carlo feasibility study of absolute dose prediction,” Zlateva & El Naqa, (PhD student), World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering.Toronto, ON, 2015.
- Best in Physics at AAPM (Therapy category), “Cherenkov Emission Dosimetry: Feasibility for Electron Radiotherapy.” Zlateva & El Naqa, (PhD student), Anaheim, CA, 2015
- John R. Cameron Young Investigator Symposium at AAPM, ““Temporally Realistic Manipulation a 4D Biomechanical Lung Phantom for Evaluation of Simultaneous Registration and Segmentation.” Markel et al., Anaheim, CA, 2015.
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