Awards, Grants, and Honours

CIRMMT Student Award · 2007

One-year team grant with Jane Hatter for the project ‘Optical Music Recognition on Early Manuscripts with Adaptive Hidden Markov Models: An Exploratory Study of the Alamire Scriptorium’.

Schulich Scholarship · 2005

Namesake scholarship for three years of graduate study at the Schulich School of Music; one awarded per area annually.

CIRMMT Student Award · 2005

One-year research scholarship from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Music and Media Technology.

Honorable mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship · 2004

National fellowship program for new graduate students in the sciences.

Felheimer Fellowship · 2002

Sub-fellowship of the Franklin fellowship.

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship · 2001

For five years of fully-funded graduate study; most prestigious award offered by Penn SAS.

Thomas Hoopes Prize · 2001

For writing one of the 72 best senior theses at Harvard College.

Leonard Bernstein Scholarship · 2000

For outstanding academic achievement in music.

Detur Book Prize · 1998

For maintaining one of the highest GPAs in first-year class at Harvard.

Presidential Scholar · 1997

Honoured by President Clinton as one of two national scholar-leaders from each US state.

National Merit Scholarship · 1997

Scholarship competition for prospective college students.

Eagle Scout · 1995

Highest rank awarded by the Boy Scouts of America.