Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

Title: 
Professor
Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur
Salutation: 
Prof
Contact Information
Address: 

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
McConnell Engineering Building
3480 University Street, Room 633
Montreal, QC     H3A 0E9
Canada

Phone: 
514-398-6901
Email address: 
odile.liboiron-ladouceur [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biography: 

Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, USA, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. From 1999 to 2000, she worked at Teradyne Inc. in Boston, as an Applications Engineer in the mass storage business unit. She then joined Texas Instruments Inc. in 2000 in Dallas, and spent two years working in the fiber optic business unit as a test and design engineer. She was a summer intern in the optical Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2016. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University in 2008 after a year as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow (2007–2008) and is currently an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Photonics Interconnect. From 2009 to 2016, she was an associate editor for the IEEE Photonics Technology Letter. She was an elected member on the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governance from 2016 to 2018. She was the general co-chair of Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) in 2017, 2019, and 2020. She holds seven granted U.S. patents and co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 115 papers in conference proceedings. She published four book chapters and gave over 15 presentations as an invited speaker at international conferences. Her research interests include photonic integrated circuits and interconnects, optics for computation, and co-design of electrical and photonic integrated circuits. She is the 2018 recipient of McGill Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher.

Degree(s): 

PhD (Columbia), M.Sc (Columbia), B.Eng (McGill)

Areas of expertise: 

Photonic integrated circuits, AI for Photonics, Photonics for AI, Data Communication, Photonics for Computing

Courses: 

Winter 2022: ECSE-596

Position: 
Associate Professor
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

2019

IEEE Montreal Section Recognition Award for outstanding efforts in reactivating the IEEE Montreal Photonics Chapter

2018

Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Research, McGill University

2018

Best Research Paper Award, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP). Presenter: Farhad Shokraneh

2017

Best Research Poster Award, McGill Summer Undergraduate Research Engineering (SURE) program. Student: Yu Chen Xu

2016

Best Conference Research Paper Award, Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). Presenter: Mahdi Nikdast

2015

IEEE Montreal Section’s Best Chapter Award, Photonics Society

2015

Best Research Poster Award, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP). Presenter: Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

2014

Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholarship, Scuola Superior Sant’Anna, Italy

2013

IEEE Montreal Section’s Best Chapter Award, Photonics Society

2011

Premio Venezia Award, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada

2011 – 2021

Canada Research Chair (Tier II, renewed in 2017) in Photonic Interconnects

2008

Peter Sylvester Research Award, McGill University

2007

Most Newsworthy Paper, Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference

2005

Best Research Poster, IEEE/ACM Conference on Supercomputing

2003, 2004

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Columbia University

Selected publications: 

PUBLISHED RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS (in the last six years)

For a complete list of published work by Prof. Liboiron-Ladouceur

Book Chapter

[B5] F. Shokraneh, S. Geoffroy-Gagnon, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “High-Performance Programmable MZI-Based Optical Processor,” in Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond, 1st Edition, CRC Press, November 2021

[B4] Nicola Andriolli, Isabella Cerutti, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Integrated Photonic Interconnects for Computing Platforms,” in High-Speed and Lower Power Technologies: Electronics and Photonics (Devices, Circuits, and Systems), 1st Ed.; CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, Eds Jung Han Choi and Krzysztof Iniewski, September 2018.

[B3] M. Nikdast*, G. Nicolescu, G. Trajkovic, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, "Impact of Fabrication Non-Uniformity on Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip," Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems: Understanding and Pushing Design Challenges, River Publishers, pp.355-384, 2017.

[B2] F.G. de Magalhaes*, M. Nikdast*, F. Hessel, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, and G. Nicolescu, "Optical Interconnection Networks: The Need for Low-Latency Controllers," Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems: Understanding and Pushing Design Challenges, River Publishers, pp. 77-104, 2017.

Articles in scholarly refereed journal publications 

2021 (10 journal papers)

[J85] S. Li, R.S. Nezami, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Mitigation of Mode Partition Noise in VCSEL-MMF links by optimizing launch conditions,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 33(23), 1313-1135, December 2021

[J84] S. Li, R.S. Nezami, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Analytical Expressions for Power Coupling Coefficients into Grade-index Fibers with Generalized Beam Launch Conditions,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(22), 7259-7273, November 2021

[J83] H. Shiran, G. Zhang, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Dual-mode broadband compact 2 × 2 optical power splitter using sub-wavelength metamaterial structures,” OSA Optics Express, 29(15), 23864-23876, July 2021.

[J82] A. Das, G. Zhang, H.R. Mojaver, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Scalable Two-mode 3-port and 4-port Mode Insensitive Silicon Photonics Switches,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letter, 33(11), 557-560, June 2021.

[J81] L. De Marinis, M. Cococcioni, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, G. Contestabile, P. Castoldi, and N. Andriolli, “Photonic integrated reconfigurable linear processors as neural network accelerators,” MDPI Applied Sciences, 11(13), 6232, 2021.

[J80] G. Zhang, D.X. Xu, Y. Grinberg, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Topological inverse design of nanophotonic devices with energy constraint,” OSA Optics Express, 29(8), 12681-12695, April 2021.

[J79] A. Dhillon, B. Radi, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “An analysis of RF On-chip Antennas in Si-Based Integrated Microwave,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 13(2), 1-18, April 2021.

[J78] G. Zhang, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Scalable and Low Crosstalk Silicon Mode Exchanger for Mode Division Multiplexing System Enabled by Inverse Design,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 13(2), pp. 1-13, April 2021.

[J77] S. Li, M.S. Nezami, S. Mishra, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Spectral-dependent electronic-photonic modeling of high-speed VCSEL-MMF links for optimized launch conditions,” OSA Optics Express, 29(2), 2738-2756, January 2021

[J76] B. Radi, M. Taherzadeh-Sani, M. S. Nezami, M. Ménard, F. Nabki, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A 22 Gb/s Time-Interleaved Low-Power Optical Receiver with a Two-Bit Integrating Front-end,” IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuit, 56(1), pp. 310-323, January 2021

2020 (14 journal papers)

[J75] A. Das, H.R. Mojaver, Guowu Wang, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Scalable SiPh-InP Hybrid Switch Based on Low-Loss Building Blocks for Lossless Operation,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letter, 32(21), pp. 1401-1404, November 2020.

[J74] M.S. Nezami, B. Radi, M. Taherzadeh-Sani, Yule Xiong, M. Ménard, F. Nabki, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A High-speed Moving Average Integrator in Silicon Photonics for TIA-less Receivers,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 32(17), pp. 1033-1036, September 2020

[J73] B. Radi, M.S. Nezami, M. Ménard, F. Nabki, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A 12.5-Gb/s 1.93 pJ/bit Optical Receiver Exploiting Silicon Photonic Delay Lines for Clock Generation Replacement,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 67(10), October 2020.

[J72] Y. Xie, Yaocheng Shi, Liu Liu, Jianwei Wang, R. Priti, Guowu Zhang, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D. Dai, “Thermally-reconfigurable Silicon Photonic Devices and Circuits,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26(5), pp. 1-20, Sept.-Oct. 2020

[J71] H.R. Mojaver, V. Tolstikhin, B. Gargallo, R. Banos, D. Domenech, J. Lo, D. Kumar, H.-W. Leong, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “8×8 SOA-based optical switch with zero fiber-to-fiber insertion loss,” OSA Optics Letters, 45(16), pp. 4650-4653, August 2020

[J70] F. Shokraneh, S. Geoffroy-Gagnon, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “The Diamond Mesh, a Phase-Error- and Loss-Tolerant Field-Programmable MZI-Based Optical Processor for Optical Neural Networks,” OSA Optics Express, 28(16), 23495-23508, August 2020.

[J69] M. Taherzadeh-Sani, B. Radi, M. S. Nezami, M. Ménard, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, and F. Nabki, “A 17 Gbps 156 fJ/bit Two-Channel Optical Receiver with Optical-Input Split and Delay in 65 nm CMOS,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 67(7), July 2020.

[J68] S. Li, M. S. Nezami, D. Rolston, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A Compact High-Efficient Equivalent Circuit Model of Multi-Quantum-Well Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for High-Speed Interconnects,” MDPI Applied Sciences, 10(11), 3865, June 2020

[J67] B. Radi, A. Singh Dhillon, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Demonstration of Inter-chip RF Data Transmission using On-Chip Antennas in Silicon Photonics,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 32(11), April 2020.

[J66] H. R. Mojaver, A. Singh Dhillon, R.B. Priti, V. Tolstikhin, K.-W. Leong, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Lossless operation of an 8 × 8 SiPh/InP hybrid optical switch,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 32(11), April 2020.

[J65] Bo Zheng, C. Condo, W. J. Gross, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “High-throughput Low-latency Encoder and Decoder for a Class of Generalized Reed-Solomon Codes for Short-Reach Optical Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 67(4), April 2020.

[J64] F. Shokraneh, M.S. Nezami, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of a 4×4 Reconfigurable MZI-based Linear Optical Processor,” IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology, 38(6), March 2020.

[J63] M. Lepage, L. Visconti, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, K. Waters, “Vertical water content profiles of two-phase flotation froths measured through conductivity,” Journal of Minerals Engineering, 154, February 2020.

[J62] G. Zhang, H.R. Mojaver, A. Das, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Mode insensitive switch for on-chip interconnect mode division multiplexing systems,” OSA Optics Letters, 45(4), Jan 2020.

2019 (6 journal papers)

[J61] M. Lepage, L. Vinnett, C. Gomez, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, K. Waters, “Characterization and Development of an Electrical Conductivity Flow Cell for the Axial Continuous Phase Fraction Profiling of Bulk Multiphase Flow,” IOP Measurement Science and Technology, 31(3), Dec. 2019.

[J60] F. Shokraneh, S. Geoffroy-Gagnon, M.S. Nezami, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A Single-Layered Neural Network Implemented by a 4×4 MZI-based Optical Processor,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 11(6), Nov 2019.

[J59] C. Williams*, Guowu Zhang, R. Priti, Glenn Cowan, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Modal Crosstalk in Silicon Photonic Multimode Interconnects,” OSA Optics Express, 27(20), pp. 27712-27725, 2019.

[J58] R.B. Priti, Guowu Zhang, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, Reconfigurable and Scalable Multimode Silicon Photonics Switch for Energy Efficient Mode-Division-Multiplexing Systems, IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology, vol. 37, no. 15, pp. 3851-3860, 10 June 2019.

[J57] R.B. Priti, Guowu Zhang, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “3×10 Gb/s silicon three-mode switch with 120 hybrid based unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer,” OSA Optics Express, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 14199-14212, 2019.

[J56] C. Williams*, D. Abdelrahman*, Xiangdong Jia, A. I. Abbas, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, and G. Cowan, “Reconfiguration in Source-Synchronous Receivers for Short-Reach Parallel Optical Links,” IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 1548-1560, 2019.

2018 (4 journal papers)

[J55] M.S. Nezami, B. Radi, Yule Xiong, M. Taherzadeh-Sani, M. Ménard, F. Nabki, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Integrated RF Passive Low Pass Filters in Silicon Photonics,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 30(23), pp. 2052-2055, Dec. 1 2018.

[J54] S. Faralli, F. Gambini, I. Cerutti, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, and N. Andriolli, “Dynamic Switching of a Packaged Photonic Integrated Network on Chip using an FPGA Controller,” OSA Optics Letter, 43(21), pp. 5471-5474, Oct. 2018.

[J53] R.B. Priti, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A reconfigurable multimode demultiplexer/switch for mode-multiplexed silicon photonics interconnects,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 24(6), pp. 1-10, Nov/Dec 2018.

[J52] M. M. Pour Fard*, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, G. Cowan, “1.23 pJ/bit 25 Gb/s Inductor-less Optical Receiver with Low-Voltage Silicon Photodetector,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 53(6), pp. 1793-1805, June 2018. 

2017 (7 journal papers)

[J51] R.B. Priti, H. Pishvai Bazargani, Y. Xiong, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Mode selecting switch using multimode interference for on-chip optical interconnects,” OSA Optics Letters, 42(18), pp. 4131-4134, Oct. 15 2017. 

[J50] B. Banan, F. Shokraneh, P. Berini, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Electrical performance analysis of a CPW capable of transmitting microwave and optical signals,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 9(8), pp. 1679-1689, October 2017. 

[J49] M. Sowailem*, S. El-Fiky, M. Morsy-Osman, Qunbi Zhuge, T.M. Hoang, S. Paquet, C. Paquet, I. Woods, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D.V. Plant, “Self-homodyne system for next generation intra-datacenter optical interconnects, OSA Optics Express, 25(22), 27834-27844, Oct. 30 2017. 

[J48] Y. Xiong, R.B. Priti, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “High-speed two-mode switch for mode-division multiplexing optical networks,” OSA Optica, 4(9), pp. 1178-1181, Sep. 2017. 

[J47] M.Y Sowailem*, M.T. Thang Hoang, M. Osman, M. Chagnon, Meng Qiu, S. Paquet, C. Paquet, I. Woods, Qunbi Zhuge, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D.V. Plant, “Impact of Chromatic Dispersion Compensation in Single Carrier Two-Dimensional Stokes Vector Direct Detection System”, IEEE Photonics Journals, 9(4), 1-10, July 7 2017.

[J46] M. Moayedi Pour Fard*, C. Williams*, G. Cowan, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “High-speed grating-assisted all-silicon photodetectors for 850 nm applications,” OSA Optics Express, 25(5), pp. 5107-5118, March 6 2017. 

[J45] M.Y. Sowailem*, E. El-Fiky, M. Morsy-Osman, Qunbi Zhuge, M.T. Hoang, S. Paquet, C. Paquet, I. Woods, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D.V. Plant, “770 Gb/s PDM-32QAM Coherent Transmission Using InP Dual Polarization IQ Modulator,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 24(26), 442-445, March 1 2017.

2016 (10 journal papers)

[J44] M.Y. Sowailem, M.T. Hoang, M. Chagnon, M. Osman, Meng Qiu, C. Paquet, I. Woods, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D.V. Plant, “100G and 200G single carrier transmission over 2880 and 320 km using an InP IQ modulator Stokes vector receiver,” OSA Optics Express, 24(26), 5444-5452, Dec. 26 2016. 

[J43] M. Moayedi Pour Fard*, G. Cowan, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Responsivity optimization of a high-speed germanium-on-silicon photodetector,” OSA Optics Express, 24(24), 27738-27752, Nov. 28 2016. 

[J42] M.S. Hai and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Low-Loss Passive Si3N4 Serial-to-WDM Interface for Energy-Efficient Optical Interconnects,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(23), 5444-5452, Oct. 3 2016.

[J41] M.S. Hai, M. Moayedi Pour Fard*, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A Ring-based 25 Gb/s DAC-less PAM-4 Modulator,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 22(6), 123-130, Jul. 11 2016. 

[J40] T. M. Hoang, M. Y. S. Sowailem*, M. Morsy-Osman, M. Chagnon, D. Patel, S. Paquet, C. Paquet, I. Woods, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D. Plant “Transmission of 344 GB/s 16-QAM Using a Simplified Coherent Receiver Based on Single-Ended Detection,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 8(3), 1-8, June 2016. 

[J39] M. Nikdast*, G. Nicolescu, J. Trajkovic, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Chip-Scale Silicon Photonic Interconnects: A Formal Study on Fabrication Non-Uniformity,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(16), 3682-3695, May 5 2016. 

[J38] C. Williams*, B. Banan, G. Cowan, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A Source-Synchronous Architecture Using Mode-Division Multiplexing for On-Chip Silicon Photonic Interconnects,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 22(6), 473-481, April 13, 2016. 

[J37] F.G. de Magalhaes*, R. Priti, M. Nikdast*, F. Hessel, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, G. Nicolescu, “Design and Modelling of a Low-Latency Centralized Controller for Optical Integrated Networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, 20(3), 462-465, March 2016. 

[J36] M.Y. Sowailem*, T.M. Hoang, M. Morsy-Osman, M. Chagnon, D. Patel, S. Paquet, C. Paquet, I. Woods, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, D.V. Plant, “400-G Single Carrier 500-km Transmission with an InP Dual Polarization IQ Modulator,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28(11), 1213-1216, Feb. 18 2016. (

[J35] S. Faralli, F. Gambini, P. Pintus, M. Scaffardi, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, Y. Xiong, P. Castoldi, N. Andriolli, I. Cerutti, “Bidirectional Transmission in an Optical Network on Chip with Bus and Ring Topologies,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 8(2),1-7, Feb. 8 2016. 

2015 (6 journal papers)

[J34] M.S. Hai, M. Ménard, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Integrated optical deserialiser time sampling based SiGe photoreceiver,” OSA Optics Express, 23(25), 31736-54, Dec. 14 2015.

[J33] B. Banan, R.N. Tait, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, P. Berini, “Fabrication of metal strip waveguides for optical and microwave data transmission,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 33(6), 061208, Nov/Dec 2015. 

[J32] M.S. Hai, A. Leinse, T. Veenstra, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “A thermally tunable 1×4 channel wavelength demultiplexer designed on a low-loss Si3N4 waveguide platform,” MDPI Photonics, 2(4), 1065-1080, November 2015. [invited] 

[J31] M. Moayedi Pour Fard*, G. Cowan, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Analysis of low-bit soft-decision error correction in optical front ends,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 7(9), 885-897, Sept. 2015. (

[J30] O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Breakthroughs in Photonics 2014: Optical Interconnection Networks,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 7(3), 1-4, June 2015. [invited] 

[J29] B. Banan, M.S. Hai, P. Berini, and O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, “Simultaneous high-capacity optical and microwave data transmission over metal waveguides,” OSA Optics Express, 23(11), 14135-14147, June 2015. 

[J28] P. Liao, M. Sakib, F. Lou, J. Park, M. Wlodawski, V.I. Kopp, D. Neugroschl, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, "Ultradense Silicon Photonic Interface for Optical Interconnection," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 27(7), 725-728, April 1, 2015. 

[J27] M.S. Hai, M.N. Sakib, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, "Monolithic 1 × 2 MMI-Based 25-Gb/s SOI DPSK Demodulator Integrated with SiGe Photodetector," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 27(6), 565-568, March 15, 2015. 

Granted Patents

[P7] “Photodetector for detecting incoming infrared light,” 16/150,921, US 10,700,233, June 30, 2020, M. Moayedi Pour Fard*, C. Williams*, G. Cowan, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur

[P6] “Methods and systems for board level photonic bridges,” US 10,009,668, June 26, 2018, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, C. Zhang, M.S. Hai, M.N. Sakib, M. Moayedi Pour Fard*.

[P5] “Time sampled photodetector devices and methods,” US 9,917,650, March 13, 2018, M. Ménard, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, M.S. Hai.

[P4] “Optical Interconnection Methods and Systems Exploiting Mode Multiplexing,” US 9,705,630, July 11, 2017, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, N. Andriolli, I. Cerutti, P. Velha.

[P3] “Method and Devices for Space-Time Multi-Plane Optical Networks,” US 9,485,048, Nov 1, 2016, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, N. Andriolli, I. Cerutti, M.S. Hai, P.G. Raponi, P. Castoldi.

[P2] “Methods and Devices for Photonic M-ary Pulse Amplitude Modulation,” US 9,470,951, Oct 18, 2016, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur, M.S. Hai, M. Moayedi Pour Fard*.

[P1] “Method and Systems for Optical Receivers,” US 9,281,902, March 8, 2016, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur and M.N. Sakib.

 

 

Current research: 

Please visit the Photonic DataCom Research Team website

Graduate supervision: 

Please visit the Photonic DataCom Research Team website

Professional activities: 

2020

OSA Advanced Photonics Congress. Conference co-chair, Photonics in Switching and Computer topical.

2019

24th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing. Conference co-chair

2019

Optics Frontier—The International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP). Silicon Photonics Technical Subcommittee Member

2019

12th International Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM). Optoelectronic Devices and Integration Technical Committee Member

2018

SPIE Photonics North Conference. Optical and Quantum Communications Session Chair

2018

6th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - PHOTOPTICS, Technical Committee Member

2017

OSA Advanced Photonics Congress. Photonics in Switching and Computer Technical program co-chair

2016

OSA Photonics in Switching and Computing Conference, Technical Committee Member

2016 2017

IEEE Optical Interconnection Conference, Technical Committee Member

2016

OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics, Technical Committee Member

2014 – 2018

NSERC Scholarships and Fellowships Committee for Electrical Engineering, Committee member (2014 –2017), Chair (2018)

2016 – 2018

IEEE Photonics Society, Elected member of the Board of Governors

2013 – present

CMC Microsystems, University Representative

2012 – 2014

Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), Datacom and ComputerCom subcommittee

2011 – 2013

IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Nanophotonics technical subcommittee

2010 – present

IEEE Photonics Society, Montreal Chapter Chair

Selected talks and presentations: 

Invited Presentations:

[IC22] Asia Communication in Photonics (ACP). Invited by Prof. Shilong Pan subcommittee co-chair. “The Diamond Mesh, a Phase-Error- and Loss-Tolerant Field-Programmable MZI-Based Optical Processor,” Shanghai, China, Nov. 5-8, 2021.

[IC21] OSA CLEO. Invited by Dr. Karen Grutter, Sub-committee chair of track S&I 7 – Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices. “Photonic Integration – from Switching to Computing,” San Jose, USA, May 9 – 14 May 2021.

[IC20] OIDA Workshop (details to be added)

2020: I had to widthdraw from two accepted invitations due to COVID-19 related shutdown, one invitation declined due to unavailability, one accepted postponed to 2021

[IC19] CadenceConnect 2020: Photonics Summit. Invited by Dr. Gilles Lamant as keynote speaker. “Photonic Integration – From Switching to Computing,” Virtual event, Dec. 2-4, 2020.

2019 (Two invitations declined due to unavailability, not included)

[IC18] OSA Frontier in Optics (FiO). Invited by Dr. Gregory Raybon, Chair of Track 4 – Fiber Optics and Optical Communications Photonics. “Efficient Optical Interconnects through Photonic-Electronic Co-design Approaches,” Washington DC, USA, September 2019.

[IC17] Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS). Invited by Boris Lamontagne organizer of session on Avenir des reseaux de télécommunications au Canada. “L’intégration photonique et son impact important sur les systèmes de communication de données,” Gatineau, Canada, May 2019.

[IC16] Photonics North Conference. Invited by Prof. Winnie Ye, Chair of session Optical and Telecommunications, “Photonic/Electronic Integrated Circuit Co-design for Efficient Optical Data Communications,” Quebec City, Canada, May 2019.

2018

[IC15] Asia Communications and Photonics Conference. Invited by Prof. Eric Cassan, Chair Track 4 – Optoelectronic Devices and Integration, “Recent progress and challenges of photonic interconnects,” Hangzhou, China, October 2018.

[IC14] OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics (IPR). Invited by Prof. Andreas Beling, Program Co-Chair, “High-speed photodetectors on Silicon,” Zurich, Switzerland, July 2018. Talk given by PhD candidate Christopher Williams due to travel constraints from maternity leave.

[IC13] SPIE Photonics Europe. Invited by Dr. Laurent Vivien, Conference Co-Chair, “Mode selecting switch using multimode interference for on-chip optical interconnects,” Strasbourg, France, April 2018. Talk given by PhD candidate Rubana B. Priti due to pregnancy-related travel constraints

2016

[IC12] Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium. Invited by Dr. Pavel Cheben, session chair, “Enabling Tolerance Analysis in Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, Shanghai, China, August 2016. Talk given by Postdoc Dr. Mahdi Nikdast due to travel constraints from maternity leave.

[IC11] Photonics North Conference. invited by Dr. Pavel Cheben, “An Analytical Study of Process Variations in Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits,” Quebec City, Canada, May 2016. Talk given by Postdoc Dr. Mahdi Nikdast due to pregnancy-related travel constraints.

[IC10] CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop. Invited by Dr. Kris Iniewski. “Electronic enhanced integrated photonics for efficient data communications,” Montreal, Canada, May 2016

2015

[IC9] MIT Lincoln Lab Workshop. Invited by Prof. Johnathan Klamkin, Boston IEEE Photonics Chapter Chair. “Impact of Photonic Integration on Optical Networks,” Boston, USA, April 2015

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