Team Members
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| Winnie Ye Professor Director of Silicon Micor/NanoPhotonics Laboratory |
Graduate Students:
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| Dilsha Appu Hennadi Thotahewage (co-supervised with Dr. Khaled Mnaymneh) M.A.Sc. Student |
William Fraser Ph.D. Student (co-supervised with Dr. Pavel Cheben) |
Ilyas Kandid Ph.D. Student |
Shahab Tavana Ph.D. Student |
Lei (Ryan) Yuan Ph.D. Student |
Alexander Zabolotnii Ph.D. Student (co-supervised with Prof. Masum Hossain) |
Fourth Year Students:
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| Peter Noble | Will Johnson | Sid Joshi | Leo (Qingjun) Xia |
Past members:
Graduate Students
– Minu Sunny (M.A.Sc.’24): Subwavelength Gratings Engineered 90-degree Optical Hybrid Component for Coherent Detection
– Shahrzad Khajavi (Ph.D.’24): Silicon Photonic Antennas for Optical Phased Arrays
– Xiaochen Xin (M.A.Sc.’22): Silicon-based Polarization-insensitive Optical Antenna Design and Experimental Characterization of Optical Phased Arrays
– Ilyas Kandid (M.A.Sc.’21): Array Design for High-Resolution Beam Steering in Optical Phased Arrays Applications
– Lei (Ryan) Yuan (M.A.Sc.’21): Optimization and Modeling for Optical Phased Array
– Kevan MacKay (M.A.Sc. ’21): Increased Capacity in WDM \& MDM Networks via Subwavelength Grating Engineerin
– Md Ruhul Fatin (M.A.Sc.’21): Photonic Integrated Circuits for Application in Optical Routing, Computing and Beamforming
– Dusan Gostimirovic (Ph.D.’20): Silicon Photonics for Next-Generation Optical Processing and Communications
– Tianyi Hao (M.A.Sc.’20): Dual-Wavelength Polarization Independent Grating Coupler Design Based on Silicon-on-Insulator
– Shuxia Li (Ph.D.’20, co-supervise with Prof. G. Tarr): Integration of Electronics and Planar Waveguide Photonics in the Silicon-on-Insulator Platform
– Neha Purwaha (M.A.Sc.’18): Broadband and Polarization Flexible SOI Grating Coupler based on Sub-Wavelength Gratings with Low Back Reflections
– Owen Marsh (M.A.Sc.’16): Silicon-on-Insulator Biosensor using microring resonators and ring-assisted mach-zhender interferometers
– Kavleen Aulakh (M.A.Sc.’16): Laser Induced Neuro-Stimulation Analysis for Potential Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
– Shuyu Ding (M.A.Sc.’15): Nanotechnology for Single Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Applications
– Yao Sun (M.A.Sc.’15): Compact SOI Polarization Rotators Based on Asymmetric Periodic Loaded Waveguides
– Yule Xiong (Ph.D.’14): Silicon Photonic Devices for Sensing, Switching, Polarization and Mode Control
– Ryan Veenkamp (M.A.Sc.’14): Light Trapping in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells Via Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles
– Seyed Alireza Aleali (M.A.Sc.’14): Modeling of Strain Induced Pockels Effect in Silicon Photonic Waveguides
– Bryce Dorin (M.A.Sc.’14): Multimode Waveguides and Multimode Ring Resonator Filters on Silicon-on-Insulator
– Marc Ibrahim (M.A.Sc.’13): The design and experimental studies of athermal silicon subwavelength grating waveguides
– Jose Nirranjan Cruze Jesudoss (M.Eng.’15); Qi Zhang (M.Eng.’11); Fidelia Tjioe (MASc’08, co-supervised in 2007-2008);
– Yousef Karimi Yonjali (2021-2022); Brian Dell (2021-2022); Andrew Branicki (2020-2021); Khalil Sayed Akhmad (supervised in 2017-2018); Stephen Bagnald (supervised in 2017-2019); Sanam Moslemi-Tabrizi (co-supervised in 2018-2019); David D’Amario (2017-2018); Fares El-Zoheiry (2015-2016); Ahsan Javaid (2015-2016); Vahidin Jupic (co-supervised in 2010-2013); Andrew Tam (co-supervised in 2010-2015); Xin Zheng (co-supervised in 2009-2011); Abdullah Alisher (co-supervised in 2011-2012)
Visiting Graduate Students:
Radovan Korcek (PhD student from Univ. Zilina – Slovakia, 2021); Abdelfettah Hadij El-Houati (PhD student from University of Malaga – Spain, 2018); Pablo Moreno (Visiting MASc Student from University of Malaga – Spain, 2019);
Daniel Pereira Martin (PhD student from University of Malaga – Spain, 2018); Martin Papes (PhD student from Technical University of Ostrava – Czech Republic, 2015-2016)
USRA/MITACS Globalink interns/I-CUREUS students:
Nadia Gonzalez Dominguez (MITACS’18), Peter Neathway (I-CUREUS’17), Daniel King (USRA’17), Yueqi Wang (MITACS’17), Daniel King (I-CUREUS’16), Scott Zakaib (USRA’15), Runsheng Zhang (MITACS’15), Siyu Peng (MITACS’14), Bulent Yurtsever (USRA’14), Juan Heredia (USRA’13), Ian Smith (USRA’13), Abdulhak Nagy (I-CUREUS’13); Simon Mack (USRA’12), Martin Friedl (USRA’11), Jeremy Miller(USRA’11), Michael Sawires(USRA’11)
Undergraduate 4th year project students:
2023-2024: Vlad Artyshchuk; Nick Ficele; Laurence Lamarche-Cliche; Declan McCoy; Matthew Walsh
2021-2022: Jonathan Levine; Deng Mading; Jacob Ryall; Randi Wan
2020-2021: Kingsley Amiah; Farhan Chowdhury; Daniel Ellingwood; Jonny Lunn; Sean Sullivan
2019-2020: Federico Bellina; Jordan Dugan; David Kemdirim; Joseph Lindon; Keenan Murphy
2018-2019: Joanna Abalos; Patrobas Adewumi; Andrew Branicki; Ankur Mishra; Tushar Shanker; Xingxu Yao.
2017-2018: Abrar Ahmad; David Lister; Khan Shamsuttoha; Alex Vierich.
2014-2015: Andrew Burry; Sacha Gunaratne; Rene Nyangezi; Cynthia Richard.
2013-2014: Max St-Jacques; Andrew Bond; Chris Pasco; David Chan.
2012-2013: Ayman Fathy; Dusan Gostimirovi; Sun Yao.
2011-2012: Fouad Hejazi; Shuyu Ding; Yu Chao Zeng; Fabricio Encina.
2010-2011: Anthony Benedetti. 2009-2010: Kibruyisfa Goshu.
Research Associates:
Peter Neathway (BEng, 2016); Majed Alshalaan; Andrew Burry (BEng, 2015); Juan Heredia; Peter Eseraigbo; Mohammad Etemad; Aditya Purohit; Rohit Zijoo; Mohamed Abdalla; Ahmad Abuaish; Ian Smith; Ziqian He; Marwan Ghalib; John Harvey (BEng, 2012); Elena Duran Valdeiglesias (BEng, 2013); Paul Mushubi; Owen Marsh (MASc, 2016); Yao Sun (MASc, 2016-2017); Kavleen Aulakh (MASc, 2016-2017); Shuyu Ding (MASc, 2016); Ryan Veenkamp (MASc, 2015)
Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars:
Prof. Daniel Benedikovic (2020-2022); Vincent (Qiankun) Liu (2020-2021, PhD’19), Dusan Gostimirovic (2020, PhD’20); Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo (2019-2020, PhD’19); Niharika Kohli (2019, PhD’18); Vladyslav Vakarin (2019, PhD’18); Yule Xiong (2015, PhD’14)