Ph.D student awarded Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Roee Diamant, a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD) student, was awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research on Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks. The Vanier Scholarship offers a significant financial award to assist doctoral students with continuing their studies. The scholarship is valued at $50,000 a year for up to three years.

Diamant’s research focuses on enabling the development of future ocean observation systems. His works aim is to develop fast and secure scheduling techniques for underwater acoustic communication networks as well as localization of underwater acoustic communication devices.