Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Leadership & Communication 

• Workshop on Leadership Skills for Engineering and Science Faculty (audited),
  MIT Professional Education (offered by Charles E. Leiserson and Chuck McVinnay), June 2016.

• Postdoc Leadership Workshop
  MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, January 2016 (see a related article about this workshop at MIT News).

• Introduction to StandUp class, ImprovBoston, Winter 2017.

• One-to-one communication lessons by Dana Jay Bein
  Sponsored by Charles E. Leiserson, Fall 2016- Winter 2017.

• Check my weblog on Improving Communication Skills.

• Text Interview: These Researchers Make Stand-Up Part of the Routine, The Chronicle of Higher Education (2019)

• Text Interview: Creating postdoc connections: The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science pilots new ways to build leadership and teamwork skills for its postdocs, MIT News (2016)

 Awards and Scholarships

• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (NSERC PDF), 2015-2017

• University of Waterloo Doctoral Thesis Completion Award, 2014

• Derick Wood Memorial Graduate Scholarship, 2013-2014

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2012-2013

• University of Waterloo President's Graduate Scholarship (PGS), 2012-2013

• NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (NSERC MSFSS) scholarship, 2012

• NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships (NSERC CGS), 2009-2012