Congratulations to for receiving the 2026 CSIT Research Achievement Award. Dr. Matrawy is the most senior faculty member at 杏吧原创 School of Information Technology (CSIT), who has dedicated a significant amount of time to establishing the School and still managed to develop an impressive research program. He is the recipient of multiple recognitions, such as 杏吧原创 University Research Achievement and Graduate Mentorship awards, and many best paper awards. His research has resulted in numerous journal and conference papers, as well as patents and policy contributions. Dr. Matrawy has an extensive record of securing research funding and supervising graduate students, and has been involved in organizing numerous conferences and academic events, as well as other professional activities.

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The Ottawa Business Journal’s annual Forty Under 40 list includes an IMD graduate, Samantha Leclair, PMP, PSM, production director at Snowed In Studios. Congratulations!

Samantha was listed alongside four other 杏吧原创 Graduates and you can learn more about them here.

You may find the full Ottawa Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 list

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On Thursday, February 26th, Dr. Ali Arya, Dr. Omair Shafiq, and their students from 杏吧原创 School of Information Technology, along with colleagues and students from Sprott School of Business and the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, their projects done in collaboration with聽the First Nation of 聽as part of聽a project, titled, 聽(鈥渢o keep the fire burning,鈥� in the Northern Tutchone language). This project is supported through a partnership with the 聽and aims at language and cultural revitalization using advanced technologies such as AI and VR. The presentations are available on the project website.

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Last month, the BIT-IMD graduate and digital artist, (EEPMON, ), was in Tokyo for a solo exhibition at the Embassy of Canada to Japan鈥檚 Prince Takamado Gallery. The highlights of the exhibition can be viewed here:

Eric is the recipient of Library and Archives Canada’s 2023 Scholar Award and Banff Forum’s 2024 Arne Bengt Johansson Fellowship, and has served on the Canadian Museums Association Board from 2017 to 2021 and on Canada’s trade missions to Japan in 2023 and to China in 2018.

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December 11th, 2025

On Friday, December 5, 2025, a public event was held on 杏吧原创鈥檚 campus, where students of IMD 4006: Advanced Game Design & Development showcased their final projects.

As part of the event, we hosted a guest talk by Vitalii Boiko, founder of Pixela Labs, an entertainment production company behind several virtual-production workflows used across games, film, enterprise applications, and large-scale digital-twin systems. In his talk, Vitalii shared insights into the development process and production pipelines behind their upcoming tactical game DDoD. The talk focused on the current state of generative AI, its impact on every stage and highlighted its real limitations in today鈥檚 game-development workflows, encouraging students to critically reflect on how a real game production process actually works.

Thanks to everyone who made it to the event!

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November 8th, 2025

Are you considering graduate studies?

Come explore what the School of Information Technology at 杏吧原创 University has to offer!

Graduate Programs Info Session

• Thursday, November 13
• 5:00 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM (EST)
• Online via Zoom (see link in bio)

Learn about our programs, admission requirements, and how grad studies can elevate your career in IT.

You鈥檒l have the chance to ask questions directly to faculty, program advisors, and students.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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October 30th, 2025

CSIT is thrilled to share the news that Jaisie Sin has been announced as one of the university鈥檚 newest Canada Research Chairs (CRC)

Check the link for the full story!

杏吧原创’s Research Recognized with 4 Canada Research Chairs

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May 29th, 2025

Three post doctorate and students of CSIT presented at the Graphics Interface 2025 conference in Kelowna! Check out their amazing accomplishments.

Designing Assistive Technologies for Blind or Low Vision Music Learners

• Leon Lu (Leon received the Bill Buxton Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in HCI at the conference)

Designing for Response Tasks: An Empirical Evaluation of Response Tasks in a Video Game Context

• Naia Kamawar-MacLeod, and Robert Teather

Rethinking VR Input: Co-Designing Accessible VR Interactions for Gamers with Upper Limb Motor Impairments

• Manya Kakkar, Shanel Wu, Audrey Girouard, and Robert Teather

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April 17th, 2025

杏吧原创 School of Information Technology students presented this weekend at the 2025 Level Up Showcase in Toronto, Great job to all of the teams, Code Noir Studios, Nocterra Productions, SideTracked Studio, and Silly Yogurt Cup! Congratulations to Silly Yogurt Cup for taking home Achievement in Accessibility Honourable Mention with their game 鈥淭he Space Between鈥�!

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October 15th, 2024

Dr. Jie Gao, an assistant Professor at 杏吧原创 School of Information Technology, received the IEEE Best Land Transportation Paper Award alongside his coauthors for the paper 鈥淓nergy-Efficient UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing: Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization,鈥� in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 3424-3438, February 2020. The award recognizes authors of papers relating to Land Transportation published in the VTS Transactions during the 5 years preceding the award. The award was presented by Prof. Gordon St眉ber, Awards Committee Chair and Elected BoG member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, on October 9 during the award luncheon at the 100th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall) in Washington DC.

The winning paper proposed a novel approach to joint resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC). The proposed approach can facilitate applications such as autonomous driving and meet the increasing computing needs, especially in environments where access to ground infrastructure is nonexistent or limited. Since its publication, the paper has been cited by over 400 other works, according to Google Scholar, underscoring its impact in the field.

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