Vincent Levesque, Ph.D.

•  Mar 2012 
  Best Paper Award, IEEE Haptics Symposium 2012, Vancouver, Canada View website
•  Feb 2012 
  Citation for Meritorious Service - Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2011 View website
•  Nov 2011 
  Industrial R&D Fellowship (IRDF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC View website
•  May 2011 
  Best Paper Award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'11, Vancouver, Canada) View website
•  Mar 2010 
  Best Reviewer Award, Haptics Symposium 2010 (Waltham, Massachusetts) View website
•  Apr 2009 
  Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) View website
•  Mar 2008 
  Best Demonstration Award, Haptics Symposium 2008 (Reno, Nevada) View website
•  Mar 2007 
  Best Paper Award for Haptic Application, World Haptics Conference 2007 (Tsukuba, Japan) View website
•  Apr 2006 
  Best Paper Award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'06, Montreal, Canada) View website
•  Jun 2004 
  3rd Prize for Best Poster, IRIS / PRECARN Conference (Ottawa, Canada) View website
•  May 2003 
  Dean’s Honour List, M.Eng. McGill University View website
•  Apr 2003 
  Postgraduate Scholarship B2, Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche (FCAR) View website
•  Mar 2003 
  Postgraduate Scholarship PGS B, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) View website
•  Jun 2002 
  Best Demonstration Award, IRIS / PRECARN Conference (Calgary, Canada) View website
•  Jan 2002 
  Precarn Student Scholarship, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) View website
•  Apr 2001 
  Postgraduate Scholarship B1 (declined), Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherc View website
•  Mar 2001 
  Postgraduate Scholarship PGS A, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) View website
•  Jun 2000 
  Dean’s Honour List, B.Eng. McGill University View website
•  Sep 1996 
  Hugh Brock / E.M. Wilson Scholarship, McGill University View website

Vincent Levesque is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with Immersion Canada (Montreal, Canada). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) from 2009 to 2011. He received a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering (2000), and a M.Eng. (2003) and PhD (2009) in Electrical Engineering from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). His research interests include interaction design with novel haptic interfaces, tactile displays and rendering, and applications of haptics for persons with visual impairments. He is the recipient of several awards including a Best Paper Award at the 2011 ACM CHI Conference for his work on touch interaction with programmable friction, the Best Reviewer Award at the 2010 Haptics Symposium, the Best Demonstration Award at the 2008 Haptics Symposium for his work on dynamic tactile graphics, and a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE World Haptics Conference for his work on refreshable Braille. He holds an Industrial R&D Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.