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2013:
- June 2013: Welcome two new members who joined the group
recently: Nasrin Ehteshami, PhD student; Bruno Romeira, post-doctoral fellow funded by the Portuguese government.
- May 2013: Congratulations to Hiva on being selected to receive an
SPIE scholarship ($3000)! This is a second scholarship received by Hiva from a major photonics/optics
society. In 2012, Hiva was awarded an
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Fellowship.
- April 2013: Wangzhe Li successfully defended his
PhD thesis entitled "Photonic Generation of Microwave and
Millimeter Wave Signals" on 3 April 2013. His thesis was nominated by the
defense committee for best thesis award.

- March 2013: A new NSERC Discovery grant "Silicon
Photonics for Microwave Photonics Applications"
was approved for 5 years, $61,000 per year.
2012:
- October 2012: Prof. Yao was appointed as an IEEE Distinguished
Microwave Lecturer for 2013-2015.
- October 2012: Prof. Yao was selected to recieve an inaugural OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award.
- September 2012: Welcome new students who joined the
Group in September: Jiejun Zhang (PhD student), Yang Chen (exchange PhD
student), and Gao Liang (exchange PhD student).
- August 2012: Welcome new students who joined the
Group in August: Xiang Chen (PhD student) and Fanqi Kong (MASc student).
- August 2012: Welcome Tong Shao who joined our Group
as a post-doctoral fellow on August 1, 2012.
- July 2012: Congratulations to Hiva, who has been
selected to receive an
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student
Fellowship for 2012. 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 during the 2012 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
which will be held on September 23 - 27, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency San
Francisco Airport, Burlingame, California, USA.
- May 2012: Prof. Yao’s University Research Chair in
Microwave Photonics has been renewed. Read
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- April 2012: Prof. Yao was elected Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Members of the CAE are nominated
and elected by their peers (current CAE members) to honorary fellowship
in the Academy in view of their distinguished achievements and
career-long service to the engineering profession. The Academy has
approximately 300 active members and 100 emeritus members.

New
Fellows inducted into the Academy at the Annual Symposium on Thursday
June 21, 2012 at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
- February 2012: Hiva Shahoei, a PhD student from the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, was selected to receive a
poster award (third place) at the Research Day Poster Competition
organized by the Faculty of Engineering on the 9th of February 2012.

Hiva
with her poster.
- February 2012: Welcome Dr. Mugang
Wang who joined the the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory in January 2012 as a Visting
Reseracher.
2011:
- December 2011: Prof. Yao was recently interviewed by
Dr. Rachel Won, senior editor of Nature
Photonics, to talk about microwave photonics. Microwave
photonics shines, Rachel Won, Nature Photonics, 5, 736 (2011)
- November 2011: Prof. Yao was elevated to IEEE Fellow
for contributions to photonic generation and processing of
ultra-wideband signals.

Photonics
Society members who have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellows:
(From left to right) Hideo Kuwahara (Photonics
Society President), Jianping Yao, Ashok Krishnamoorthy,
Yuichi Matsushima, Tetsuya Mizumoto, and
Ping-Kong Wai..
- November 2011: Welcome a new student who joined the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory recently: Weifeng Zhang, PhD
student.
- November 2011: Prof. Yao received a Strategic
Projects Grant of $438,000 over three years from The Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to develop optical
broadband infrastructures for wired and wireless area networks.

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology
announces Strategic Project Grants to support 70 scientific teams at
universities across the country.
- October 2011: Chao Wang and Weilin Liu received their
PhD and MASc degrees at the Fall convocation of
the University of Ottawa on 30 October 2011.

Chao
received his PhD degree at the Fall convocation
on 30 October 2011.

Weilin
received his MASc degree at the Fall
convocation on 30 October 2011.
- September 2011: Weilin Liu successfully defended his
MASc thesis entitled "Real-Time Interrogation of Fiber Bragg
Grating Sensors Based On Chirped Pulse
Compression" on 19 September 2011. The thesis was nominated by the
defense committee for best thesis prize.
- September 2011: Yichen Han successfully defended his
MASc thesis entitled "All-Optical Microwave Signal Processing"
on 8 September 2011.
- September 2011: Welcome two new students who joined
the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory recently: Peiwen Chen, MASc
student, and Wentao Cui, MASc student.
- July 2011: Congratulations to Honglei and Wangzhe on
being selected to receive an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student
Fellowship for 2011. 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 during the Awards Banquet at the 2011 IEEE
Photonics Conference (IPC) at Arlington, Virginia, USA on Monday 10th
October, 2011.
This is the second and third graduate fellowships received from the
Photonics Society by PhD students from the Microwave Photonics Research
Laboratory. In 2009, Chao was awarded a Photonics Society Graduate
Student Fellowship. In addition to the Photonics Society Graduate
Student Fellowship, Chao and Wangzhe also received an MTT-S (IEEE
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) Graduate Student Fellowship for
2010 and 2011.

Honglei
was presented the student fellowship certificate at the 2011 IEEE
Photonics Society Conference.
- May 2011: Weilin Liu, a MASc student in the Microwave
Photonics Research Laboratory, has been recently awarded an Ontario
Graduate Scholarship as an international student. In Ontario, only 60
international students are selected each year to recive
the scholarship. Congratulations!
- April 2011: Congratulations to Wangzhe who was recently
selected by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Education Committee to
receive an MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for 2011. The award consists of a
check for $6,000 and a certificate of recognition from the society and
is presented at a special Student Awards Luncheon held during the IMS 2011 (June 6-9). This is the
second consecutive year that an MTT-S Graduate fellowship was presented
to a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory. Last
year, Chao Wang was selected to receive the fellowship for 2010. Chao is
currently an NSERC post-doctoral fellow in UCLA.
- March 2011: Wangzhe Li, a PhD student of the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, was awarded a scholarship of
$5,000 from the China Scholarship
Council. The scholarship program was created to support outstanding
self-financed students studying abroad. Congratulations!
- February 2011: Wangzhe Li and Yichen Han, a PhD
student and a MASc student from the Microwave Photonics Research
Laboratory, received the first-place and third-place poster awards at
the Research Day Poster Competition organized by the Faculty of
Engineering on the 3rd of February 2011.
- January 2011: Chao Wang completed his PhD studies in
the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory and joined UCLA as an NSERC
post-doctoral fellow in January 2011.
2010:
- December 2010: Chao Wang successfully defended his
PhD thesis entitled "Photonic generation and processing of
microwave arbitrary waveforms based on advanced fiber Bragg
gratings" on 15 December 2010. His thesis was nominated by the
defense committee for best thesis award.

Chao
and the members of the defence committee.
- December 2010: Dr. Shilong Pan, a Vision 2010
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory
from Aug. 2008 to Nov. 2010, was recently offered a position as a
Professor in the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- October 2010: Congratulations to Chao Wang, who has
been awarded a best student paper award (second place) at the IEEE
International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP 2010), held in
Montreal, Canada, from October 5-9, 2010.
- September 2010: Welcome two new members who joined
the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory recently (September 7,
2010): Dr. Montasir Qasymeh, MITACS post-doctoral fellow and Imran Khan, MSc student.
- April 2010: Congratulations to Chao Wang, a PhD
student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, who was recently
selected by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Education Committee to
receive an MTT-S Graduate Fellowship.

Chao
was presented the student fellowship certificate at IMS 2010.
- March 2010: Congratulations to Honglei Guo, a PhD
student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, who was recently
awarded an NSERC post-graduate scholarship. The NSERC Postgraduate
Scholarships (PGS) Program provides financial support to high-calibre
students who are engaged in master's or
doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering.
- March 2010: Congratulations to Chao Wang, a PhD
student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, who was recently
awarded an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. The NSERC Postdoctoral
Fellowships Program provides support to a core of the most promising
researchers at a pivotal time in their careers.
- March 2010: Wangzhe Li, a PhD student in the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, received the first prize
($10,000) at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation competition organized
by the Faculty of Engineering. Congratulations!
- March 2010: Honglei Guo, a PhD student of the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, was awarded a scholarship of
$5,000 from the China Scholarship
Council. The scholarship program was created to support outstanding
self-financed students studying abroad. Congratulations!
- February 2010: Honglei Guo, a PhD student of the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, has been selected as one of the
three finalists in the OCRI Futures Award: Student Researcher of the
Year. See Faculty
of Engineering news.
- February 2010: Chao Wang, a PhD student in the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, received a poster award
(second-place) at the Research Day Poster organized by the Faculty of
Engineering on the 4th of February 2010.
- The 2010 International Topical Meeting on Microwave
Photonics (MWP 2010) will be held in Montreal, Canada, from October 5-9,
2010. Please click to view the first Call
for Papers.
2009:
- Welcome Ze Li who joined
the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory recently (November 23,
2009).
- Prof. Jianping Yao was elected by the Board of
Directors of The Optical Society of America (OSA) a fellow of the
Society for major contributions to the optical generation and processing
of microwave and UWB signals.
![[Jianping Yao OSA Fellowship Picture]](mprg/Yao_OSA_Fellowship.jpg)
Dr.
Yao was presented the fellowship certificate by the OSA president Dr.
James C. Wyant at OFC 2010.
- October 2009: Prof. Jianping Yao received a New
Collaboration Grant from the Canadian
Institute for Photonic Innovations to develop a high speed
miniaturized sensor interrogator based on mechanically scannable planar
optical waveguides. The work would be a collaboration
with The National
Research Council Institute for Microstructural
Sciences (NRC-IMS).
- September 2009: Welcome new students who joined the
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory recently: Yichen Han, MASc
student, Weilin Liu, MASc student, Hiva Shahoei, PhD student, and Shawn
Kostyk, MASc student.
- September 2009: Chao Wang won the 2009 IEEE Photonics
Society (formerly LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Student Paper .
His paper "Simultaneous
optical spectral shaping and wavelength-to-time mapping for photonic
microwave arbitrary waveform generation" is recognized by the
selection committee an excellent representation of high quality research
and technology advancement. Congratulations!
- Welcome Junqiang Zhou who
joined the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory recently (August 6,
2009) as an exchange PhD student from Nanyang Technological University.
- Chao Wang, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, has recently been selected by The IEEE Photonics Society Membership
Committee to receive a prestigious 2009
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship .
Congratulations!

Chao
( third from the left) was presented the
student fellowship certificate at the 2009 IEEE Photonics Society
Conference.
- Congratulations to Chao Wang, who was awarded a Vanier
Canada Graduate Scholarship! Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, at
$50,000 per year for a maximum of three years, is the most important,
prestigious and sought-after scholarships for doctoral students. See uOttawa
news.
- Honglei Guo, a PhD student of the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, has been selected by the SPIE Board of Directors and the Scholarship
Committee to receive a 2009 SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and
Engineering in the amount of $3,000. Congratulations!
- Chao Wang, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics Research
Laboratory, received the best student paper award at the 2009
Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference. The conference was held in
Beijing from 22 to 24 April 2009.
- Welcome two new members who joined the Microwave
Photonics Research Laboratory recently (April 1, 2009): Dr. Ming Li,
post-doctoral fellow and Dr. Davide Janner,
visiting post-doctoral fellow.
- Honglei Guo, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, received the second prize ($7,500) at the
Entrepreneurship and Innovation competition organized by the Faculty of
Engineering. Congratulations!
- Chao Wang, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, received recently a scholarship ($5,000) from the China Scholarship Council. The
scholarships are awarded to outstanding self-financed students studying
abroad. Congratulations!
- The MWPLab received a grant of $41,364 from CMC Microsystems to fabricate DFB semiconductor
laser and laser array with chirped structure based on the
equivalent chirp technology. The fabrication will be done in the Canadian Photonics Fabrication
Centre.
- Dr. Byung-Min Jung, a
post-doctoral fellow in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, was
recently offered a position as a Research Professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,
Korea.
- Wangzhe Li, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, received a poster award (first-place) at the
Research Poster Competition organized by the Faculty of Engineering.
2008:
- Dr. Shilong Pan was awarded an Ontario Ministry of
Research and Innovation sponsored Vision 2010
Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is valued at $50,000 per
year for two years.
- Honglei Guo, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, was awarded a Doctoral Research Scholarship of the
University of Ottawa.
- Chao Wang received a travel grant from the Ontario
Centres of Excellence to present a paper at IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting,
held on 9-13 November 2008 in Newport Beach, CA, USA.
- On October 1, 2008, the International Steering
Committee approved our proposal to hold 2010 IEEE International Topical
Meeting on Microwave Photonics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Afshin
Daryoush and Dr. Jianping Yao will serve as the General and TPC chairs
of the conference.
- Welcome two new members who joined the MWPLab
recently (August and September 2008): Haiyin
Xia, visiting PhD student, Hongqian Mu,
visiting PhD student.
- Prof. Yao has been awarded an NSERC 2008
Discovery Accelerator Supplements award. The Discovery Accelerator
Supplements award is valued at $120,000 for three years.
- George Qi successfully defended his PhD thesis
entitled "Optical generation and distribution of millimeter-wave
signals and optical up-conversion for radio-over-fiber
applications" on 29 April 2008.
- Chao Wang, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, has been recently awarded an Ontario Graduate
Scholarship. Congratulations!
- Chao Wang, a PhD student of the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, has been selected by the SPIE Board of Directors and the
Scholarship Committee to receive an SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science
and Engineering in the amount of $2000. As one of the recipients of the
2008 SPIE Scholarships, the organization recognizes Mr. Wang as a future
leader of photonics in Canada, and in the World in general. Congratulations!
- Prof. Yao (with Prof. Azana) received an NSERC
Strategic project grant to develop ultrahigh-speed optical signal
characterization techniques for real-time evaluation and monitoring of
photonics and electro-optic devices and systems.
- Prof. Yao received a research
grant from OCE - Centre of
Excellence for Photonics to support his collaboration with ICFO in developing innovative photonic
systems for applications in broadband wireless access networks, sensor
networks, and biomedical systems.
2007:
- Yu Yan successfully defended his Master's thesis
entitled "Photonic microwave filters with negative and complex
coefficients" on 27 November 2007. He is currently employed by OZ
Optics, a supplier of fiber optic products in Ottawa.
- Welcome three new members who joined MWPLab recently
(in November 2007): Xihua Zou, exchange PhD student, Wangzhe Li, PhD
student, and Byung-Min Jung, Post-doctoral
fellow.
- Prof. Yao (with Prof. Darcie) received an NSERC
Strategic project grant to develop Tera-Hertz
Imaging and Spectroscopy technologies.
- On 15 June 2007, the fourth NSERC strategic project
meeting was held in the School of Information Technology and
Engineering, University of Ottawa. At the meeting, a radio over fiber
(RoF) system was demonstrated in the Microwave Photonics Research
Laboratory. The RoF system supports duplex operation with two channels
optically multiplexed based on optical WDM technology. The transmission
of high-definition video signals for both channels was demonstrated.
Nine presentations were also given at the meeting to report the progress
of the project.
![[MPL's Picture]](mprg/P1-RoF-meeting-15June2007.jpg)
![[MPL's Picture]](mprg/P2-RoF-meeting-15June2007.jpg)
- Prof. Jianping Yao has been invited to present a
tutorial on Microwave Photonics at OFC2008,
to be held from February 24-28, 2008 in San Diego, CA, USA. As the largest
(over 13,000 participants in 2007) and most comprehensive international
event for optical communications, the Optical Fiber Communication
Conference and Exposition (OFC) provides an
established forum for optical communications education and development.
- Prof. Jianping Yao received an NSERC SRO (Special
Research Opportunities) grant of $187,000 for the pioneer work in UWB
over fiber. This work is carried out at the Microwave Photonics Research
Laboratory in collaboration with European partners under the project ISIS.
- Prof. Jianping Yao received an NSERC RTI (Research
Tools and Instruments) grant of $129,966 to purchase a signal source
analyzer, a microwave down-converter and a broadband microwave
amplifier.
- Fei Zeng, a former PhD student of the MWPLab, was
selected as one of the three finalists
for the OCRI (Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation) Student
Researcher of the Year Award.
- Prof. Jianping Yao was the recipient of the 2007
George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research of the Faculty of
Engineering.
2006:
- Fei Zeng defended his PhD thesis on 20 December 2006.
His thesis was nominated by the defense committee for Doctoral Award!
Fei will be working as an NSERC post-doctoral fellow in MIT from January
2007. Congratulations!
- Howard Rideout, a MASc student, defended his Master's
thesis on 23 November 2006. Howard's thesis was nominated by the defense
committee for best thesis award. Howard was offered a research position
in the Communications Research Centre after his defense.
Congratulations!
- Prof. Jianping Yao received a New Collaboration Grant
from CIPI to set up a
collaborative project with NRC-IMS, to
develop a miniaturized sensor interrogator for air vehicle structural
health monitoring.
- Fei Zeng, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, has been awarded the prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral
Fellowship. Congratulations!
- The Microwave Photonic Research Laboratory is one of
the nineteen participants (also the only participant from Canada) in a
European project ISIS, to develop
low-cost optical solutions for broadband access and the merging of
wireless and photonic technologies. This project, started from January
2006, is funded by the European Commission under the sixth EU Framework
Programme for Research and Technological Development.
- Zhichao Deng (a MASc student
in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, who received his MASc
degree in 2005) received a job offer from Lucent Technologies to work in
the DWDM Department as a Research Engineer. Congratulations!
2005:
- Prof. Jianping Yao was awarded a strategic grant by
NSERC (with K. Wu, R. Kashyap and X. Zhang) for a 3-year project
"Millimeter-wave Photonic Techniques for Broadband Communication
and Sensor Applications" funded at $156,000 per annum.
- George Qi, a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics
Research Laboratory, has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
Congratulations!
- Prof. Jianping Yao received a New Collaboration Grant
from CIPI to set up a
collaborative project with CRC, to
develop an all-optical software-defined radio transceiver at mm-wave
frequencies.
- Prof. Jianping Yao received the 2005 International
Creative Research Award of the University of Ottawa.
- Prof. Jianping Yao received an NSERC equipment grant
of $75,910 to purchase an ultrashort pulsed laser source and an optical
auto/cross correlator.
- Sebastien Blais, a Master's student in the Microwave
Photonics Research Laboratory, has been awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate
Scholarship to support his PhD research in the University of Ottawa. The
scholarships are awarded only to top-ranked PGS applicants.
Congratulations!
- Prof. Jianping Yao was invited by the Institut
National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, as an invited professor from
January to March 2005.
2004:
- A paper co-authored by Sebastien Blais and Jianping
Yao received the "Best Poster Award" on 27 September 2004 in
Ottawa at the 2004 Photonics North Conference.
2003:
- Our work on diffuse infrared (IR) wireless home
networking was featured in the June 2003 issue of Photonics Spectra: Holography
offers eye-safe IR networking.
- Prof. Jianping Yao
received major funding
of $597,648 from the Canada
Foundation for Innovation and Ontario
Innovation Trust, to set up a Microwave Photonics Research
Laboratory in the University of Ottawa.
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