Grants

I’m grateful my research is currently funded by an excess of $10M, including from the Canada Research Chairs program; an NSERC Discovery grant; an SSHRC Insight grant; Two SSHRC Partnership grants; two Canadian Foundation for Innovation grants; several industry cloud computing gifts from AMD, Google, and Amazon; Compute Canada competition resources; and several UBC funds. The following is a partial list:

  • Canadian Foundation for Innovation JELF grant ($228,499) for deep learning and lab infrastructure.
  • UBC Bridge Funds (2018): $5,000
  • UBC Work Learn (3 undergaduate + 2 graduate positions) (2018): $9,600
  • Compute Canda Resources for Research Groups (RRG): Equal of $11,122, (2018-2019)
  • UBC Arts Undergraduate Research Assistant (AURA) (3 positions) (Summer 2018): $12,000
  • Compute Canada Resources Award: Equal of $5,120,  (2017-2018)
  • Hampton Grant, $10K, Faculty of Arts, UBC (2016-2017)
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship, $20K, School of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington (2013-2014)
  • Cynthia Duncan Fellowship, $1.8K, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (2012-2013)
  • Google Research Award, $71,339, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and Mona Diab, PI at Columbia University, for “Nuanced Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Social Media.” (Dec, 2011)
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Fellowship, $1.5K, The Linguistic Society of America for attending the 2011 LSA Summer School in Boulder, Colorado (Jul, 2011)
  • Dean’s Fellowship, $6,600, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (Jun, 2011)
  • The Rob Kling Social Informatics Fellowship, $5K, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington for research on Mining Arabic Social Media. (Jun, 2011)
  • The Gerald Bernbom Fellowship, $1,750, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington for research on Information Management. (July, 2010)
  • Fulbright Corporation Scholarship, $50K, The Binational Fulbright Corporation, for MA research. (2006-2007)