People


Principal Investigator

Joyce Poon

Postdoc

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

Graduate Students

PhD
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

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)