Schneider has presented his research results at scientific conferences and in numerous invited talks in Canada and abroad. He published his results in a number of journal papers and co-authored a chapter in a textbook. Schneider has won several competitive scholarships and bursaries, including Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) scholarships and awards, an iCore supplement and an Alberta Ingenuity Studentship. 

Schneider has been an active leader on campus as well as in the lab and boardroom. As a graduate student he represented his department on the Graduate Student Council. In 2003, recognizing a need for an organization to give graduate students a voice in the department, he founded the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Students' Association. Schneider red-shirted with the University of Calgary Dinos varsity basketball team as a student and continues to organize basketball and volleyball activities.