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Team Members<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Winnie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winnie Ye
\nProfessor
\nCanada Research Professor
\nDirector of Silicon Micro\/NanoPhotonics Laboratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Current Students: <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Andrew Anuichi
\nResearch Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Dilsha<\/p>\n

Dilsha Appu Hennadi Thotahewage (co-supervised with Dr. Khaled Mnaymneh)
\nM.A.Sc. Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Shivam<\/p>\n

Shivam Bhutiani
\nM.A.Sc. Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\"Noah<\/p>\n

Noah Guy
\nPhD Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Taishaun<\/p>\n

Taishaun Johnson
\nUndergrad Research Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\"Ilyas<\/p>\n

Ilyas Kandid
\nPh.D. Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Surjeet<\/p>\n

Surjeet Kaur
\nM.A.Sc. Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\"Jordan<\/p>\n

Jordan Markland
\nUndergrad Research Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\"Lei<\/p>\n

Lei (Ryan) Yuan
\nPh.D. Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\"Alexander<\/p>\n

Alexander Zabolotnii
\nPh.D. Student (co-supervised with Prof. Masum Hossain)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Ruxin<\/p>\n

Ruxin Zhang
\nM.A.Sc. Student<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Group Photos: <\/b>
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Past members: <\/b><\/p>\n

Graduate Students <\/u><\/p>\n

– William Fraser (Ph.D.’26): Metamaterials for High-Efficiency Photonic Integrated Circuits with Multiband Applications in Quantum and Fibre Communications<\/p>\n

– Minu Sunny (M.A.Sc.’24): Subwavelength Gratings Engineered 90-degree Optical Hybrid Component for Coherent Detection<\/p>\n

– Shahrzad Khajavi (Ph.D.’24): Silicon Photonic Antennas for Optical Phased Arrays<\/p>\n

– Xiaochen Xin (M.A.Sc.’22): Silicon-based Polarization-insensitive Optical Antenna Design and Experimental Characterization of Optical Phased Arrays<\/p>\n

– Ilyas Kandid (M.A.Sc.’21): Array Design for High-Resolution Beam Steering in Optical Phased Arrays Applications<\/p>\n

– Lei (Ryan) Yuan (M.A.Sc.’21): Optimization and Modeling for Optical Phased Array<\/p>\n

– Kevan MacKay (M.A.Sc. ’21): Increased Capacity in WDM \\& MDM Networks via Subwavelength Grating Engineerin<\/p>\n

– Md Ruhul Fatin (M.A.Sc.’21): Photonic Integrated Circuits for Application in Optical Routing, Computing and Beamforming<\/p>\n

– Dusan Gostimirovic (Ph.D.’20): Silicon Photonics for Next-Generation Optical Processing and Communications<\/p>\n

– Tianyi Hao (M.A.Sc.’20): Dual-Wavelength Polarization Independent Grating Coupler Design Based on Silicon-on-Insulator<\/p>\n

– Shuxia Li (Ph.D.’20, co-supervise with Prof. G. Tarr): Integration of Electronics and Planar Waveguide Photonics in the Silicon-on-Insulator Platform<\/p>\n

– Neha Purwaha (M.A.Sc.’18): Broadband and Polarization Flexible SOI Grating Coupler based on Sub-Wavelength Gratings with Low Back Reflections<\/p>\n

– Owen Marsh (M.A.Sc.’16): Silicon-on-Insulator Biosensor using microring resonators and ring-assisted mach-zhender interferometers<\/p>\n

– Kavleen Aulakh (M.A.Sc.’16): Laser Induced Neuro-Stimulation Analysis for Potential Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder<\/p>\n

– Shuyu Ding (M.A.Sc.’15): Nanotechnology for Single Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Applications<\/p>\n

– Yao Sun (M.A.Sc.’15): Compact SOI Polarization Rotators Based on Asymmetric Periodic Loaded Waveguides<\/p>\n

– Yule Xiong (Ph.D.’14): Silicon Photonic Devices for Sensing, Switching, Polarization and Mode Control<\/p>\n

– Ryan Veenkamp (M.A.Sc.’14): Light Trapping in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells Via Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles<\/p>\n

– Seyed Alireza Aleali (M.A.Sc.’14): Modeling of Strain Induced Pockels Effect in Silicon Photonic Waveguides<\/p>\n

– Bryce Dorin (M.A.Sc.’14): Multimode Waveguides and Multimode Ring Resonator Filters on Silicon-on-Insulator<\/p>\n

– Marc Ibrahim (M.A.Sc.’13): The design and experimental studies of athermal silicon subwavelength grating waveguides<\/p>\n

– Jose Nirranjan Cruze Jesudoss (M.Eng.’15); Qi Zhang (M.Eng.’11); Fidelia Tjioe (MASc’08, co-supervised in 2007-2008);<\/p>\n

– Yousef Karimi Yonjali (PhD student, 2021-2022); Brian Dell (MASc student, 2021-2022); Andrew Branicki (MASc student, 2020-2021); Khalil Sayed Akhmad (MASc student, 2017-2018); Stephen Bagnald (MASc student, 2017-2019); Sanam Moslemi-Tabrizi (PhD student, co-supervised in 2018-2019); David D’Amario (MASc student, 2017-2018); Fares El-Zoheiry (MASc student, 2015-2016); Ahsan Javaid (MASc student, 2015-2016); Vahidin Jupic (MASc student, co-supervised in 2010-2013); Andrew Tam (PhD student, co-supervised in 2010-2015); Xin Zheng (MASc student, co-supervised in 2009-2011); Abdullah Alisher (PhD student, co-supervised in 2011-2012)<\/p>\n

Visiting Graduate Students:<\/u>
\nRadovan 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);
\nDaniel Pereira Martin (PhD student from University of Malaga – Spain, 2018); Martin Papes (PhD student from Technical University of Ostrava – Czech Republic, 2015-2016)<\/p>\n

USRA\/MITACS Globalink interns\/I-CUREUS students:<\/u>
\nNadia 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)<\/p>\n

Undergraduate 4th year project students:<\/u>
\n2024-2025: Peter Noble; Will Johnson; Sid Joshi;Leo (Qingjun) Xi
\n2023-2024: Vlad Artyshchuk; Nick Ficele; Laurence Lamarche-Cliche; Declan McCoy; Matthew Walsh
\n2021-2022: Jonathan Levine; Deng Mading; Jacob Ryall; Randi Wan
\n2020-2021: Kingsley Amiah; Farhan Chowdhury; Daniel Ellingwood; Jonny Lunn; Sean Sullivan
\n2019-2020: Federico Bellina; Jordan Dugan; David Kemdirim; Joseph Lindon; Keenan Murphy
\n2018-2019: Joanna Abalos; Patrobas Adewumi; Andrew Branicki; Ankur Mishra; Tushar Shanker; Xingxu Yao.
\n2017-2018: Abrar Ahmad; David Lister; Khan Shamsuttoha; Alex Vierich.
\n2014-2015: Andrew Burry; Sacha Gunaratne; Rene Nyangezi; Cynthia Richard.
\n2013-2014: Max St-Jacques; Andrew Bond; Chris Pasco; David Chan.
\n2012-2013: Ayman Fathy; Dusan Gostimirovi; Sun Yao.
\n2011-2012: Fouad Hejazi; Shuyu Ding; Yu Chao Zeng; Fabricio Encina.
\n2010-2011: Anthony Benedetti. 2009-2010: Kibruyisfa Goshu.<\/p>\n

Research Associates:<\/u>
\nPeter 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)<\/p>\n

Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars:<\/u>
\nProf. Daniel Benedikovic (2020-2022); Vincent (Qiankun) Liu (2020-2021, PhD’19), Dusan Gostimirovic (2020, PhD’20); Alejandro S\u00e1nchez-Postigo (2019-2020, PhD’19); Niharika Kohli (2019, PhD’18); Vladyslav Vakarin (2019, PhD’18); Yule Xiong (2015, PhD’14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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