{"id":6295,"date":"2026-04-13T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:55:05","slug":"celebrating-excellence-in-graduate-mentorship-professors-rajan-and-taha-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2026\/celebrating-excellence-in-graduate-mentorship-professors-rajan-and-taha-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Excellence in Graduate Mentorship: Professors Rajan and Taha Honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-2-768x512.png); background-position: 42% 11%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Celebrating Excellence in Graduate Mentorship: Professors Rajan and Taha Honoured\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering proudly celebrates the outstanding achievements of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/people\/rajan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Rajan<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/people\/taha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Taha<\/a><\/strong>, recipients of the prestigious <strong>Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate exceptional dedication to supporting and guiding graduate students, both academically and professionally. Professors Rajan and Taha have distinguished themselves through their commitment to fostering inclusive, supportive, and intellectually stimulating research environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through their mentorship, they have empowered students to excel in their studies, pursue innovative research, and develop confidence as emerging scholars and professionals. Their impact extends beyond the classroom and laboratory, shaping the next generation of leaders in their fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us in congratulating Professors Rajan and Taha on this well-deserved recognition of their excellence in graduate mentorship. See the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-graduate-mentoring-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"525\" data-id=\"6296\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Mostafa-Taha-FGMA-pic-6-1-512x525-1.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Taha\" class=\"wp-image-6296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Mostafa-Taha-FGMA-pic-6-1-512x525-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Mostafa-Taha-FGMA-pic-6-1-512x525-1-320x328.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Professor Mostafa Taha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"660\" data-id=\"6297\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Sreeraman-Rajan-main-512x660-1.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Rajan\" class=\"wp-image-6297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Sreeraman-Rajan-main-512x660-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Sreeraman-Rajan-main-512x660-1-320x413.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Professor Sreeraman Rajan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering proudly celebrates the outstanding achievements of Professor Rajan and Professor Taha, recipients of the prestigious Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award. This award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate exceptional dedication to supporting and guiding graduate students, both academically and professionally. Professors Rajan and Taha have distinguished themselves through their commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":6298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}