Presidential Award for Enabling the Modeling and Simulation Discipline by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). This award recognizes a substantial contribution to establishing Modeling and Simulation as a discipline in academia, industry, and/or the government. 2025
McLeod Founder Award for distinguished service to the profession by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). This award recognizes a group of technical contributions which have been made by the candidate over a significant period of time. They clearly reflect a commitment by the candidate to nurturing a robust evolution of the profession. The significant nature of the contributions will be supported by their wide dissemination in the technical literature and their discernible impact on the manner in which some aspect of the modeling and simulation activity is carried out. 2022
Best Paper Award: the paper “Controller Area Network Discrete-Event System Specification For Independent Node Testing” (by M. Jamal*, J. Boi-Ukeme*, G. Wainer) obtained the Runner-Up Overall Best Paper Award in SCS/IEEE/ACM Annual Simulation Conference, ANNSim 2022. San Diego, CA. (2 awards; 141 submissions). 2022.
Distinguished Speaker. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Since 2021.
Outstanding Professional Achievement Award by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). The award recognizes outstanding service to the Society by a member. 2020.
Best Autodesk BIM 360 Project. AEC Hackathon Online. 2020.
Best Hack for Humans Award. AEC Hackathon Online. 2020.
Best Paper Award Nomination: “Analytics And Visualization Of Spatial Models As A Service”. B. St-Aubin*, E. Yammine*, M. Nayef*, G. Wainer was shortlisted to the Best Paper Award at the SummerSim Multiconference. Berlin, Germany (4 papers nominated; 120 submissions). 2019.
IEEE Outstanding Engineering Award (Ottawa Section). “For innovative and outstanding contributions to the field of discrete-event modeling and simulation”
ACM Recognition of Service Award. In Appreciation for Contributions to ACM.
Best Paper Award: the paper “Analizing the effect of LTE-A Transmission Parameters on Video Streaming Quality of Experience” (by A. Al-Habashna, S. Fernandes, G. Wainer) obtained the Best Paper Award in CNS'18 (SpringSim’18) and the Runner-Up Overall Best Paper Award in SpringSim’18. Baltimore, MD. 2018.
Best Paper Award: the paper “Formal Modeling and Simulation To Analyze The Dynamics Of Malware Propagation In Networks Using Cell-DEVS” (by B. Kazi, G. Wainer) obtained the runner-up Best Paper Award in CNS'17 (SpringSim 2017). Virginia Beach, VA. 2017.
Best Paper Award: the paper “Context-sensitive Personal Spaces for Dense Crowd Flow” (by O. Hesham, G. Wainer) obtained the Best Paper Award in SimAUD 2017, Toronto, ON. 2017.
Nepean's Canada 150 Anniversary Medal. The medal was given in the 150 anniversary of Canadian Confederation to recognize people who have made a difference in the community or excelled in their professional life in the riding of Nepean, ON, Canada. 2017
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Best Paper Award: “Centroidal Particles for Interactive Crowd Simulation” (by O. Hesham and G. Wainer). Summer Computer Simulation Conference. Montréal, QC (of 99 submissions).
Best Paper Award: “Centroidal Particles for Interactive Crowd Simulation” (by O. Hesham and G. Wainer). Overall Multiconference Best Paper Award at the SummerSim Multiconference. Montréal, QC (of 175 submissions).
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Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award. C. Ruiz, A. López, G. Wainer. “Applying Complex Network Theory in the Assessment of Organizational Resilience”. IFAC/IFIP/IFORS Symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing, INCOM 2015. Ottawa, ON. 2015.
“Mobile Simulation: Bringing Simulations to Smartphones”. M. Etemad, S. Wang, G. Wainer. Honorable Mention. Mobile App competition paper. Spring Simulation Conference. Alexandria, VA. 2015.
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Best Symposium Award. Symposium of Theory of Modeling and Simulation. Spring Simulation Conference. Orlando, FL. 2012.
Outstanding Professional Award by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) “for his contributions to advancing the state-of-the-art of discrete-event simulation and real-time simulation”. 2011.
Best Paper Award: the paper “VCELL: A 3D Real-time Visual Simulation in Support of Combat”. (by A. Ahmed, M. Moallemi, G. Wainer, S. Mahmoud) was the runner-up Best Paper Award for Summersim (of 120 submissions).
Best Paper Award: the paper “I-DEVS: a framework for imprecise computing in DEVS” (by O. Moallemi and G. Wainer) won the Best Paper Award in the Symposium of Theory of Modeling and Simulation/DEVS 11 (of 91submissions). 2011.
The First Bernard P. Zeigler DEVS Modeling and Simulation Award. 2010.
Best Paper Award: the paper “Advanced IDE for Modeling and Simulation of Discrete Event Systems” (by M. Bonaventura, G. Wainer, R. Castro) was the runner-up Best Paper Award for Springsim (of 350 submissions) . 2010.
Best Paper Award: the paper “Applying the TPS Method To Modeling And Simulation Of Biological Systems” (by R. Goldstein, N. Farran, H. Yigang, S. Lissari, G. Wainer) was the runner-up Best Paper Award for the 2010 ACM/SCS Summer Computer Simulation Conference. 2010 (of 152 submissions). 2010.
Senior Member of IEEE. 2008.
Yosri Harzallah, Vincent Michel, Qi Liu, Gabriel Wainer, Yuhong Yan. “Distributed Simulation and Web Map Mash-Up for Forest Fire Spread”. Finalist of the 2008 IEEE International Services Computing Contest. 2008