Grants, Scholarships and Fellowships

As a faculty member:
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005) [UofT News]
  • Canada Research Chair (CRC), Canada (2004) [UofT News]
  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)
    Scholar of the Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception (NCAP) Program
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Canada (2002)
  • Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA), Ontario (2002-2007)
  • NSERC Individual Research Award (Discovery Grant) (2002-2006)
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) LEARN Project (2002-2005)
  • Connaught New Staff Matching Grant (2002)
  • Connaught Startup Grant (2001)
As a postdoc:
  • Bogue Research Fellowship, MIT/UCL (November 2000)
  • Canada-UK Millenium Fellowship, Royal Society/NSERC (GCNU, Feb'00)
  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (GCNU, Feb'00)
  • NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow (GCNU, April'99)
  • NSF NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (declined April'99)
As a grad student & undergrad:
  • NSERC 1967 Science Canada Award (Caltech '94-'98)
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined '94)
  • Rhodes Scholarship Finalist (Ontario '94)
  • NSERC Undergraduate Research Award (U.Toronto '93)
  • Canada Scholarship (U.Toronto '90-94)
  • J.W.Billes Admission Scholarship (U.Toronto '90-94)
  • Ontario Scholarship (U.Toronto '90)

Honours and Awards

  • Elected to Senior Member of the IEEE (Oct. 2006)
  • Sloan Research Fellowship in Science and Technology (Feb. 2005)
  • Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Statistcal Machine Learning (March 2004)
  • Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA), Ontario (May 2002)
  • Rank Prize (Most Outstanding Short Paper), Mini-Symposium on Learning and Model Selection in Computer Vision (UK, April'00)
  • Elected to Member, Acoustical Society of America (July 2000)
  • Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture (Caltech '98)
  • Graduate Student Teaching Award (Caltech '97)
  • National Book Award (U.Toronto '90)
  • Valedictorian (UTS '90)

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Sam Roweis, Vision, Learning and Graphics Group, NYU, www.cs.nyu.edu/~roweis