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Dr. Winnie Ye is a Fellow of Optica and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), currently a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics at Carleton University. She was also a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nano-scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors from 2009 to 2021. Her expertise lies in silicon photonics, with diverse applications in telecommunications, data communication, biophotonics, and renewable energy. Dr. Ye received her B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, followed by advanced studies in Photonics. Dr. Ye earned her M.A.Sc. and Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and Carleton University, respectively. After completing her doctoral studies, she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University as a NSERC postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Ye returned to Carleton as a faculty member in 2009.
Dr. Ye’s outstanding contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the 2021 IEEE MGA Leadership Award, and the 2020 Partners In Research’s National Technology and Engineering Ambassador Award, the 2018 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Inspiring Member Award, the 2018 Engineering Medal for Research and Development from the Ontario Professional Engineers (PEO), and the PEO Ottawa Chapter’s 2018 Engineering Excellence Award. In September 2019, Dr. Ye was honored with the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award, earning her the title of Carleton University’s Teaching Fellow. She also received Carleton University’s Graduate Mentoring Award in 2022. In addition, she has been recognized with MRI’s Early Researcher Award (ERA) in 2012, the Research Achievement Award from Carleton University in 2013, and the 2021 Research Achievement Award from Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and Design.
In addition to her research and teaching achievements, Dr. Ye has actively contributed to her field by serving as the Chair of Optica’s Photonics and Opto-Electronics Technical Division from 2021 to 2023. She currently holds the Chair-Elect position of the IEEE Women in Engineering for 2024 and serves an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society.
Here is my newest podcast on nanophotonics (November 2024):
Watch a short video from my past student Kevan MacKay on his experience as a grad student:
Research interests:
Silicon-based micro- and nano-photonics and applications in 4 key application areas: telecommunications, data communications, sensing, and solar photovoltaics. Our group also works in the area of Artificial Neural Network / Machine Learning for photonic device design.
- – Silicon waveguide; subwavelength gratings (SWGs); polarization rotators; microring resonators; multimode-divison multiplexing (MDM); silicon modulators; Schottky Photodiodes; opto-electronic integration
- – Microresonators; microdisks; interconnects
- -Biomedical bulk and molecular sensing; LiDAR for autonomous vehicles
- -Silicon bulk solar cells; thin film solar cells; plasmonic-enhanced solar cells
More details can be found at the link to my Research page.
