People


Principal Investigator

Joyce Poon

Postdoc

Youngho Jung (PhD EE, KAIST)
Jason Mak (PhD ECE, UT)

Graduate Students

PhD
Ilan Felts Almog (BS EECS, MIT)
Dave (Junho) Jeong (MASc ECE, UT; BASc EngSci-Phys, UT)
Jin Gyu Lim (BASc, MASc EE, UWaterloo)
Jared Mikkelsen (BASc EngSci-Phys, UT)
John Straguzzi (BS, MS EE, Drexel)
Torrey Thiessen (BSc EngPhys, UAlberta)
Zheng Yong (BEng Optical Engineering, Zhejiang)

Masters 
Fred (Fu-Der) Chen (BASc ECE, UT)
Thomas Lordello (BASc Nano, Waterloo)
Jonathan (Zhongnan) Qu (BASc ECE, UT)
Jack (Tianyuan) Xue (BASc EngSci-Phys, UT)

Undergraduate Students

Chaoxin Ding (ECE)
Saila Shama (EngSci)
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Selected Awards Won by Group Members

Research
OFC Top-scored paper: Zheng Yong et al. (OFC 2017)
Corning Outstanding Student Paper semi-finalists: Wesley Sacher and Jared Mikkelsen (OFC 2012)
Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award: Arash Joushaghani (FiO 2011)

Graduate
NSERC CGS-D: Torrey Thiessen (2017), Hasitha Jayatilleka (2013), Wesley Sacher (2011), Arash Joushaghani (2010)
NSERC PGS-D: Jared Mikkelsen (2014)

NSERC CGS-M: Torrey Thiessen (2015), Jason Mak (2014), Ben Taylor (2013), Hasitha Jayatilleka (2012), Alex MacKay (2011), Wesley Sacher (2010), Arash Joushaghani (2009)

International Student Ontario Graduate Scholarship: Zheng Yong (2018)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship/QE-GSST: Fred Chen (2017), Thomas Lordello (2017), Jason Mak (2013, 2015, 2017), Torrey Thiessen (2014), Arash Joushaghani (2013), Alex MacKay (2013, 2012), Jared Mikkelsen (2011)
NSERC CREATE (Graduate): Ben Taylor (2012), Niklas Caspers (2010), Brett Kruger (2010)

Undergraduate
Centennial Thesis Award: Wesley Sacher (2009)
UnERD Best Poster Award: Brett Kruger (2009)

Postdoctoral
Ontario MRI Postdoctoral Fellowship: Bo Hou (2008)