Congratulations to Masoud Nosrati, who is the winner of the CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2015! This award is given to the top computer/robot vision Ph.D. dissertation defended in a Canadian university (http://www.cipprs.org/dissertation_award.html).
Masoud completed his Ph.D. at SFU in 2015:
http://www.mnosrati.com/