Student Success (older than 2 years since November 2021)
  1. [June 28, 2024] Congratulations to BScIS student, Robert Maurice Schmidt (a.k.a., Rob), for being selected by Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) as the winner of SLERD Student Design Contest for the project titled "Authorship Forensics Portal". Rob submitted the project to SLERD Student Design Contest and had been selected as two of the finalists. He then presented it on June 27 and the judges announced the winner on June 28. Congratulations, Rob and the team of ngrampos project (https://ngrampos.vipresearch.ca/#our-team) as the research cannot reach 3rd floor if there is no foundation and first two floors you built!
  2. [April 23, 2024] Congratulations to Motiejus Jonas Lapavicius-Lapp, for being selected by Athabasca University for NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) for working 16-week (from May 6 to August 24) on the project entitled, "The Design and Development of Self-Improvement Features for Game-based Educational Reward System". Congratulations, Motiejus!
  3. [April 23, 2024] Congratulations to BScIS student, Supun De Silva, for being awarded Athabasca University-Alberta Innovates (AU-AI) Summer Research Studentship (SRS) internship for working 16-week (from May 6 to August 24) on the project entitled, "Drug Explorer for Side-effects and Interactions, an LLM-based Virtual Assistant", a.k.a. our DE SILVAM project. Congratulations, Supun!
  4. [April 6, 2024] Congratulations to Arjun Guliya and Mitacs Globalink Intern, Suraj Van Verma, for getting the first VIP-Bot paper, "A Generative Artificial Intelligence empowered chatbot: System usability and student teachers’ experience", accepted as Short Paper by 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2024, https://iis-international.org/its2024-generative-intelligence-and-its/). Congratulations, Arjun and Suraj!
  5. [June 20, 2023] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Vinayak Sharma for the accepted paper "Chatbot and Bridge of Multiplayer Educational Game World and Summary Generation Service" presented at 1st International Conference on Metaverse and Artificial Companions in Education and Society, (MetaACES 2023, Open Access Conference Proceedings at https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2023/proceedings.html), receiving Best Short Paper Award. Congratulations, Vinayak!
  6. [April 30, 2023] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Vinayak Sharma for getting the paper, "Chatbot and Bridge of Multiplayer Educational Game World and Summary Generation Service", accepted as Work-in-Progress Paper by 1st International Conference on Metaverse and Artificial Companions in Education and Society, (MetaACES 2023, Open Access Conference Proceedings at https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2023/proceedings.html). Congratulations, Vinayak!
  7. [May 14, 2023] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Harshit Maheshwari for getting admitted to Ontario Tech University with Funding (TA+GRA). Ontario Tech University is a unique, industry-focused institution in Ontario, Canada. Congratulations, Harshit!
  8. [April 28, 2023] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Jagrit Acharya for getting admitted to MSc in Electrical Engineering at University of Calgary with departmental funding. The University of Calgary is Canada’s entrepreneurial university, is the youngest top-five research university in Canada, and #1 in start-ups. Congratulations, Jagrit!
  9. [April 26, 2023] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Vinayak Sharma for getting admitted to MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering program at University of Waterloo. In Maclean's Canadian university reputation survey, Waterloo has placed first as best overall of all universities in Canada, 13 out of 15 times. Waterloo is known as the “Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)” of Canada. Congratulations, Vinayak!
  10. [March 20, 2023] Congratulations to MScIS student, Maria F. Iriarte, for getting the paper, "Preliminary Performance Assessment on Ask4Summary’s Reading Methods for Summary Generation", accepted as Full Paper by 19th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (ITS 2023, https://iis-international.org/its2023/). Congratulations, Maria!
  11. [March 20, 2023] Congratulations to MScIS student, Theodore Krahn (a.k.a., Ted), for getting the paper, "Personalized Study Guide: A Moodle Plug-in Generating Personal Learning Path for Students", accepted as Short Paper by 19th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (ITS 2023, https://iis-international.org/its2023/). Congratulations, Ted!
  12. [March 6, 2023] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Suraj Van Verma for getting admitted to Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. McGill University is ranked #31 in QS World University Rankings 2023. Congratulations, Suraj!
  13. [February 8, 2023] Congratulations to MScIS student, Mrs. Maria Fernandez Iriarte, for receiving Excellence in Research Scholarship for her research works. Congratulations, Maria!
  14. [July 19, 2022] Congratulations to NSERC USRA, Mohammed Saleh, and MScIS student, Maria F. Iriarte, for getting their two papers, "Ask4Summary Automatically Responds Student's Question with a Summary Assembled from Course Content" and "Ask4Summary: A Summary Generation Moodle Plugin Using Natural Language Processing Techniques", accepted as Workshop Paper and Short Paper by 30th International Conference on Computers in Education, (ICCE 2022, https://icce2022.apsce.net/). Congratulations, Ted!
  15. [July 14, 2022] Congratulations to NSERC USRA, Radomir Wasowski, and MScIS student, Theodore Krahn (a.k.a., Ted), for their accepted paper "LORD: A Moodle Plug-in Helps to Find the Relations among Learning Objects" presented at 18th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (ITS 2022, https://iis-international.org/its2022-bucharest-romania), receiving Best Short Paper Award. Congratulations, Radomir and Ted!
  16. [April 5, 2022] Congratulations to NSERC USRA, Radomir Wasowski, and MScIS student, Theodore Krahn (a.k.a., Ted), for getting their paper "LORD: A Moodle Plug-in Helps to Find the Relations among Learning Objects" accepted as Short Paper and Short Paper by 18th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (ITS 2022, https://iis-international.org/its2022-bucharest-romania). Congratulations, Radomir and Ted!
  17. [March 17, 2022] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Anirudh Raghavan for getting admitted to M.S. Program in Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Rutgers University is a top 100 world university, is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university, and is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (Athabasca University is also accredited by). Congratulations, Anirudh!
  18. [February 22, 2022] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Mr. Sayantan Pal, for being accepted by the Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science & Engineering program at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with full-time Teaching Assistant appointment and Chair's Fellowship! Congratulations, Sayantan!
  19. [January 22, 2022] Congratulations to MScIS students, Mr. Ripley Pennell and Mr. Theodore Krahn, for receiving Excellence in Research Scholarship for their research works. Congratulations, Rip and Ted!
  20. [November 2, 2021] Congratulations to Mitacs Globalink Intern, Sayantan Pal, and MScIS student, Maria F. Iriarte, for getting their paper, "Summary Generation using Natural Language Processing Techniques and Cosine Similarity", accepted as Regular Paper by 21st International Conference Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2021). Congratulations, Sayantan and Maria!