Fundng and Grants
- Bank Development of Canada, $153,240, June 2010, Market expansion for Video Analytics platform
- Alberta Education and Technology, $10,000, Dec 2009, Market Analysis Voucher.
- NRC-IRAP, Intelligent Camera Platform – Camera with onboard analytics, $350,000, April 2009-July 2010
- Alberta Ingenuity Fund, January 2009-2011, $124,000 PDF Salary support, $62,000 per annum
- Alberta Ingenuity Fund, Sept 2009-2011, $124,000 PDF Salary support, $62,000 per annum
- NSERC, 2009-2011, industrial PDF support $60,000, $30,000 per annum
- NSERC, Operating Grant, 2005-2009, Discovery Grant, Models, Algorithms, Architectures and Prototypes for Low Power System on a Chip for ubiquitous video systems, Principle Investigator, $102,000 – $25,200 per annum.
- NSERC, Operating Grant, 2006-2009, CRD, Integrated Systems for High Performance Signal Processing, Co-Investigator, $ 300,770 – $35,000 per annum.
- University Research Grant Committee (Conference Travel Grant), 2008, Principle Investigator, $1,800 – $1,800 per annum.
- University Research Grant Committee (Visitor Scholar Grant for Prof. El Wakil), 2008, Principle Investigator, $1,250 – $1, 250 per annum – Co-applicant: Prof. Henry Leung. .
- MITACS, Student Internship, Automatic Symbol Extraction, $15,000 Including $7500 Industrial Support, May – August 2008
- AVAC – Seed Fund, “Commercialization of Video Content Analysis, IntelliView Technologies Inc.” $1,000,000 to match $1,200,000 Private Fund, March 2008-2010.
- NRC-IRAP, Commercialization of Patient Agitation System $30,000, Feb – June 2008
- NSERC, Equipment Grant, 2005-2007, Test and Inspection platform for advanced integration technology, Principle Investigator, $54,973
- iCore chair associate at ATIPS 2003-2008, (average 3 students, travel and equipment support per year), I received the following grants
- NSERC, Operating Grant, 2001-2005, Discovery Grant, Models, Algorithms and Low Power Architectures for Multimedia Applications, Principle Investigator, $96,000 – $24,000 per annum.
- NSERC, Operating Grant, 2001-2002, CRD program, Development of Parallel Algorithms for Mesh Based Video Object Motion Tracking, Principle Investigator, $47,000 – $47,000 per annum.
- NSERC, Equipment Grant, 2003-2004, A Wet Chemistry Processing Station, (K. Kaler (PI), W. Badawy, G. Jullien, M. Mintchev), $51,202 ( Shared Equipment).
- NSERC, Equipment Grant, 2001-2002, Smart Cameras Network, Principle Investigator (W. Badawy (PI), L. Bruton), $19,800 ( Shared Equipment).
- NSERC, Operating Grant, 2002-2007, Strategic Projects, “A System On A Chip Platform for Real-time Bio-technology Applications,” Co-Investigator (K. Kaler (PI), W. Badawy, L. Pilarski, W. Moussa, C. Backhouse), $1,646,000 – $79,000 per annum, the following are the matching component for this grant.
- Canadian Microelectronic Corporation, Operating, 2002-2007, “A System On A Chip Platform for Real-time Bio-technology Applications,” Co-Investigator (K. Kaler (PI), W. Badawy, L. Pilarsiki, W. Moussa, C. Backhouse), $190,000 – $10,000 per annum.
- Micralyne, Operating, 2002-2007, “A System On A Chip Platform for Real-time Bio-technology Applications,” Co-Investigator (K. Kaler (PI), W. Badawy, L. Pilarsiki, W. Moussa, C. Backhouse), 200,000 – 10,000 per annum.
- IntelliSense, Operating, 2002-2007, “A System On A Chip Platform for Real-time Bio-technology Applications,” Co-Investigator (K. Kaler (PI), W. Badawy, L. Pilarsiki, W. Moussa, C. Backhouse), 675,000 – 33,500 per annum.
- ITS Canada, City of Calgary, Alberta Transportation, Transportation Canada, Intelligent Transportation Systems; Operating Grant, Video Incident Detecting and Verification Proving Ground, Principal Investigator, $135,600 (2005 – 2006)
- Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Fabrication Grant 2007, “Calibrating Electrical Field Sensor for nano particles” Principle Investigator, estimated at ($2,000 /mm2 x 1.7 mm2).
- Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Fabrication Grant 2006, “Embedded Memory Prototype,” Principle Investigator, estimated at ($2,000 /mm2 x 6 mm2).
- Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence, 2006, Operating, in support of the 28th International Workshop on Signal Processing, Banff, Alberta, October 2-4 2006, ICT Stategy Planning and Recruiting Grant, $10,000
- Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Fabrication Grant 2005, “Electrical Field Sensor 2nd run,” Principle Investigator, estimated at ($2,000 /mm2 x 1 mm2).
- Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence, 2005, Operating, in support of the 5th International Workshop on System on Chip (IWSOC 2005), Banff, Alberta, July 20-24 2005, ICT Strategy Planning and Recruiting Grant, $10,000
- Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Fabrication Grant 2005, “Embedded Memory Prototype,” Principle Investigator, estimated at ($2,000 /mm2 x 1.7 mm2).
- Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Fabrication Grant 2003, “Electrical Field Sensor,” Principle Investigator, estimated at ($2,000 /mm2 x 6×7 mm2).
- Calgary Olympics Oval, 2003, Research Digital Video Processing Applications for Speed Skating, Principle Investigator, $10,000.
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Equipments, 2001-2003, “Establishment of a High-performance Real-time Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing Laboratory,” Principle Investigator, (W. Badawy (PI), D. Westwick), $131,870 – $65,000 per annum.
- Alberta Innovation and Science – IIPP, Equipment, 2001-2003, “Establishment of a High-performance Real-time Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing Laboratory”, Principle Investigator, (W. Badawy (PI), D. Westwick), $131,870 – $65,000 per annum.
- MicroNet (NCE), Operating, 2001-2005, “Low Power VLSI Prototype for Video Object Motion Tracking Architectures for Real-time Video Applications”, Principle Investigator, $83,000 – $23,000 per annum.
- MicroNet (NCE), Operating, 2003-2005, Co-Investigator (G. Jullien (PI), W. Badawy et al.) $256,000 – $40,000 per annum.
- AERI/ASRA, 2001-2003, “Real-time Internet-based Surveillance of Oil/Gas Pipelines,” Co-Investigator (N. El Sheimy (PI), W. Badawy), $116,160 – $25,000 per annum.
- MicroNet (NCE), Operating, 2001-2003, “A VLSI Motion Tracking Architecture for Detecting the Physio-chemical Properties of Living Biological Cells,” Co-Investigator (K. Kaler (PI), W. Badawy), $40,000 – $10,000 per annum.
- Canadian Microelectronic Corporation, Equipment, 2001-2005, “Lead Client for Tality Platform+DDE+IP-Authoring Tools,” Principle Investigator (W. Badawy (PI), G. Jullien, J. Haslett, B. Maundy, K. Kaler, L. Turner), $1,600,000 – Tools and IP-Blocks that are provided by CMC in the new secure lab.
- Calgary Olympic Oval, 2002-2003, Operating, “Automated Video Collection in Long Track Speed Skating,” Co-Investigator, (S. Maw (PI)), $10,000 – $10,000 per annum.
- Human Resources of Canada, Student Salary Support, 2003, “Multimedia Application Development,” Principle Investigator, $5,000 – $5,000 per annum.
- The Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Fabrication Grant, 2002, “SIMD Architecture for VIPlat” Principle Investigator,” $65,000 – $65,000 per annum.
- Petro-Canada, Operating, 2001-2003, “Research in Low-Power VLSI architecture for Digital Video Processing Applications,” Principle Investigator, $20,000 – $10,000 per annum.
- Alberta Innovation and Science – ERATT, Operating, 2002-2003, “Commercialization of New Video Streaming Solution for Real-time Applications,” Principle Investigator, (W. Badawy (PI), I. El Mallah), $520,000 – $56,000 per annum.
- Canadian Microelectronic Corporation, 2001, Equipment, “VLSI Establishment Grant,” Co-Investigator, (J. Haslett (PI), W. Badawy, G. Jullien, B. Maundy, K. Kaler, L. Turner), $37,000 – Tools and computing facility that are provided by CMC and located in the VLSI laboratory.
- University Research Grant Committee (Starter Grant), Operating, 2001-2002, “The Research and development of Video Compression Technique,” Principle Investigator, $10,000 – $10,000 per annum.
- University Research Grant Committee (Conference Travel Grant), 2000, Principle Investigator, $1,320 – $1,320 per annum.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Capital Grant, 2001-2002, “Establishment of Digital Video Laboratory,” Principle Investigator, $25,000 – $25,000 per annum.
- Ashtech Inc., Equipment, 2001-2003, GPS Equipment, Principle Investigator, $7,500 – tools and GPS equipment.
- Human Resources of Canada, Student Salary Support, 2001, Multimedia application development, Principle Investigator, $5,000 – $5,000 per annum.
- Human Resources of Alberta, Student Salary Support, 2001, VLSI architectures for Video Applications, Principle Investigator, $10,000 – $10,000 per annum.