SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Do AI Corrections Improve the Quality of Multiple-Choice Questions? Perceptions of University Instructors
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
$65,188
Grants and Awards
Funded research
Research grants
Rowland Haryett Endowment Fund (RHEF)
CranioConsult-RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented System for Multidisciplinary Reasoning in Craniofacial Disorders
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
$25,000
Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology (OMOP) Research Fund
Developing an Interactive AI-Driven Learning Tool to Enhance Clinical Reasoning Using Large Language Models
University of Alberta
$5,000
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)
Using Google Gemini to Provide International Students with Continuous Formative Feedback on Their Writing Assignments
University of Alberta
$22,100
Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS)
Using Automated Procedures to Score Educational Essays Written in Multiple Languages (with M. Gierl, University of Alberta)
University of Alberta
$7,000
NCOHR Grant
National workshop on the application of artificial intelligence in dentistry (with H. Lai, University of Alberta)
Network for Canadian Oral Health Research
$20,000
Academic recognition
Fellowships & awards
January 2024–December 2025
Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Recruitment Fellowship
Using Clinicians’ Notes and Images to Predict Dental Disease
$140,000; $70,000 per year for two years
September 2022
Alberta Society for Computers in Education Scholarship in Educational Computing
Award supporting graduate research involving advanced computational methods in education and assessment.
$2,200
December 2021
University of Alberta Graduate Research Fellowship
Multilingual Automated Essay Scoring: Issues and Prospects
$20,000
December 2019
University of Alberta Graduate Award
Competitive graduate award recognizing contributions to the University of Alberta’s academic and research community.
$8,000
May 2019
University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship
Competitive recruitment scholarship awarded to doctoral students demonstrating strong academic and research potential.
$5,000
2017–2018
Iranian Ministry of Higher Education Visiting Research Student Award
Competitive award supporting doctoral students undertaking visiting research at an international university.
$14,000
2012–2017
Iranian Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship
Merit-based scholarship awarded on the basis of national university entrance examination ranking.
Tuition exemption