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- IEEE MTT-S Microwave Applications Award (2025)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Academy of Science (2018)
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R. A. Fessenden Award (2018)
- uOttawa Award for Excellence in Research (2017-2018)
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Distinguished University Professor (2016)
- IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (2013-2015)
- Fellow, The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) (2012)
- Fellow, IEEE (2012)
- Fellow, The Optical Society of America (OSA) (2010)
- University Research Chair in Microwave Photonics (2007-2022)
- George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research (2007)
- April 2026: We are very pleased to announce that Yiran Guan, a PhD student at MWPLab, was awarded
a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference 2026.
His paper entitled "A Hybrid Integrated Photonic Engine for Recurrent and Multi-layer
Optical Convolution Computing" was recognized for its outstanding contribution to
the field of integrated photonics for high-performance AI computing.
The paper presents a hybrid integrated photonic engine for recurrent optical
convolution computing, integrating a microcomb, a thin-film lithium niobate
modulator, and a silicon micro-ring mesh with photodetectors. Seven
consecutive layers of convolution between a 256×256 image and
four distinct 2×2 kernels are experimentally demonstrated at a speed of 1024 TOPS.
- March 2026:
We are very pleased to announce that Mahdi Chegini, a PhD student at MWPLab, was awarded
a first place at the University of Ottawa Engineering graduate poster competition.
- June 2025: Prof. Yao was selected to receive the 2025 MTT-S Microwave Applications Award
for outstanding contributions to Ultra-Wideband over Fiber Technologies.
- April 2025:
We are very pleased to announce that Mahdi Chegini, a PhD student at MWPLab, was awarded
a 2nd place at the University of Ottawa Engineering graduate poster competition.
- August 2024: An invited talk "Evolution of photonics integrated
circuits for microwave photonics applications" was delievered
at the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
(CLEO-PR 2024), held
in Incheon, Korea, from August 4 to 9, 2024.
- April 2024: A keynote speech "Microwave
photonics and AI" was delievered at the 2024 PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium
(PIERS2024), held in Chengdu, China, from 21-25 April, 2024.
- March 2024: Yiran Guan, a PhD student from the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, was selected to receive a poster award
(first place) at the Research Day Poster Competition organized by
the Faculty of Engineering on 7 March 2024.
- November 2023: An invited talk reporting our recent work
on using "Quantum-Dash Mode-Locked
Laser For Duplex Radio Over Fiber Links was presented at the 2023
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2023), held in Orlando, from Nov. 12 to 16, 2023.
- October 2022: An invited tutorial aricle entitled "Microwave
Photonic systems" has been published in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology in its Oct. 2022 issue.
In the article, recent advances in microwave photonic systems are reviewed, including
system architectures for photonic generation of low-phase-noise microwave
signals, linearly chirped microwave waveforms, and random microwave waveforms,
photonic processing of microwave signals using microwave photonic filters based
on incoherent and coherent detection, and radio over fiber links based on coherent
detection with increased spectral efficiency and sensitivity. Microwave photonic
systems for high-speed and high-resolution optical sensing are also discussed.
- August 2022: Congratulations to Peng, a joint training PhD student (September 2019 - August 2021),
on receiveing a 2022 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate fellowship. The IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship
Program was created to honor outstanding Photonics Society student members pursuing graduate education within the
Photonics Society field of interest. Ten fellowships are awarded each year. Until this year, 8 PhD students in the MWPLab
have been awarded the fellowship.
The award ceremony will be made at
the 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference, November 13-17, 2022, Vancouver, Canada.
- November 2021: A plenary talk on "Advances in Microwave
Photonic Systems" was delivered at the 2021 IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP 2021), held on
15-17 November 2021 in Italy. The talk covers the recent advances in microwave photonic systems including new system architectures
for the generation and processing of microwave signals. The use of coherent detection to transmit radio signals over fiber
(radio over fiber) with increased spectral efficiency was also discussed. The implementation of optical sensors based on
microwave photonics to translate the optical spectrum change to microwave frequqency change to increase the sensing speed
and resolution was also discussed.
- June 2021: A tutorial aricle entitled "Microwave
Photonic Sensors" has been published in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology in its June 2021 issue.
In the article, microwave photonic techniques for optical sensing demonstrated in the past few years are reviewed including
high-speed and high-resolution sensing based on heterodyne beating of two optical wavelengths, the use of an optoelectronic
oscillator to translate the optical wavelength shift to a microwave frequency change, and the use of wavelength-to-time mapping
to translate the sensing information from the optical wavelength domain to the microwave frequency domain, to increase the
interrogation speed and resolution. The use of photonic integrated circuits to achieve high-speed and high-resolution
microwave photonic sensing is discussed.
- July 2020: Congratulations to Zhiqiang, a joint training PhD student (Octoberber 2018 - May 2020),
on receiveing a 2020 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate fellowship. The IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship
Program was created to honor outstanding Photonics Society student members pursuing graduate education within the
Photonics Society field of interest. Ten fellowships are awarded each year. The award ceremony will be made at
the 2020 IEEE Photonics Conference, September 28 - October 1, 2020.
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January 2020: Our recent work on Photonic Integrated Field-Programmable
Disk Array Signal Processor has been published in Nature Communications. In the article,
a scalable photonic integrated field-programmable disk array signal processor for ultra-fast
signal processing was reported. The key contribution of the work is that a completely new photonic
chip architecture using optical micro-disk resonators (MDRs) as the fundamental execution units to
route, store and process optical signals is proposed. This chip architecture opens up a new
avenue for the implementation of a programmable photonic signal processor and creates more functionalities and
better performance. Thanks to the nature of ultra-compact size, strong wavelength selectivity and high
optical-confining capacity of MDRs, the proposed photonic signal processor features high scalability,
strong parallel computing capability, instant reconfigurability, and low power consumption.
Prof. Jianping Yao
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
25 Templeton Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
Office: ARC 311
Tel: (613) 562-5800 x 6309, Fax: (613) 562-5664
E-mail: jpyao [at] uottawa.ca
or jpyao [at] ieee.org
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