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- University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research 2017-2018
- Distinguished University Professor (2016)
- IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer 2013-2015
- Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) (2012)
- Fellow of IEEE (2012)
- Fellow of The Optical Society of America (OSA) (2010)
- University Research Chair in Microwave Photonics (2007)
- George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research (2007)
- January 2018: Hong Deng successfully defended his
MASc thesis entitled "Real-time interrogation of optical sensors based on wavelength-to-time mapping" on January 17, 2018. The thesis was nominated by the
defense committee for best thesis award.
- Nov 2017: Weilin Liu received his PhD degree at the convocation of the University of Ottawa, held in the National Arts Center on 5 November 2017.
- Oct 2017: A silicon photonic integrated optoelectronic oscillator was recently demonstrated at the MWPLab.
A paper entitled "A Silicon Photonic Integrated
Frequency-Tunable Optoelectronic Oscillator" summarizing the results was selected as a post-deadline
paper at MWP2017 in Beijing and was presented in the post-deadline session on 25 October 2017.
- Oct 2017: Hong Deng, an MASc student from the MWPLab, has been selected to receive
a 2017 IEEE Ottawa Photonics Student Best Paper Award (second place) for the paper
entitled "High-Speed and High-Resolution Interrogation of a Fiber Bragg Grating
Temperature Sensor" presented at the 2017 Photonic North Conference in Ottawa.
- Oct 2017: at the MWP International Steering Commitee Meeting held on 24 October during MWP2017 in Beijing,
Ottawa was selected host city for MWP2019. IEEE Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics is a primary
conference for reseachers to present new results in the field of microwave photonics including new MWP devices,
systems, to field trials. The meeting is held annually and rotates between the Americas,
the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.
- Oct 2017: Prof. Yao gave a tutorial at IPC2017 (Orlando, Oct. 1-5), talking about photonic integrated circuits for microwave photonics.
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- July 2017: a fully integrated microwave photonic
passband filter on a silicon photonic chip was recently demonstrated at the MWPLab.
The microwave photonic filter has a 3-dB bandwidth of 2.3 GHz with a frequency tunable range from 7 to 25 GHz.
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- June 2017: Jiejun Zhang and Xiang Chen received their PhD degree certificates
at the convocation of the University of Ottawa, held in the Shaw Centre on 20 June 2017.
May 2017: our work on an integrated parity-time symmetric
wavelength-tunable single-mode microring laser was published in Nature Communications in the May 2017 issue.
The key contribution of the work is that a monolithically photonic
integrated parity-time symmetry wavelength-tunable single-mode microring laser was designed, fabricated and experimentally demonstrated.
Stable and single-mode lasing without using an ultra-narrow band optical filter with a high sidemode suppression ratio exceeding 36 dB
is demonstrated. The lasing wavelength is continuously tunable electronically
with a tuning range of 0.22 nm.
- April 2017: Weilin Liu successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled
"Ultra-fast Photonic Signal Processors Based on Photonic Integrated Circuits" on 26 April 2017.
- April 2017: Xiang Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled
"Coherent radio over fiber for broadband wireless access networks" on 25 April 2017. The thesis
was nominated for best thesis prize.
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March 2017: Prof. Yao received an NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant
of $150,000 to purchase an Optical Vector Analyzer to replace the old OVA
for Integrated Microwave Photonics Research.
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February 2017: Prof. Yao was awarded a Strategic Partnership Grant (SPG) of $552,000 over three years
from The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to develop Microwave Photonics Techniques for 5G.
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- January 2017: Jiejun sucessfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Photonic Dispersive Delay Line for Broadband Microwave Signal Processing" on 24 Jan. 2017.
- November 2016: The paper authored by Prof. Yao entitled
"Microwave Photonics" published in
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology in 2009 was among the 20 highest cited papers in
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology both in terms of total citations and citations per year
- November 2016: Weifeng was selected to receive a Best Student Paper Award (Bronze)
at the 2016 IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP2016)
for the paper entitled "Silicon-Based On-Chip Electrically Tunable Phase-Shifted Waveguide Bragg
Grating for Integrated Microwave Photonic Applications" presented at the conference.
MWP2016 was held in Long Beach, USA, on 31 October-3 November, 2016. This is the third
consecutive year that a best student paper award was received by a PhD student from the MWPLab.
- August 2016: our work "A fully reconfigurable photonic
integrated signal processor" published in Nature Photonics
was featured in an article "The bandwidth bottleneck"
published in Nature in August 2016.
- August 2016: Weifeng has been selected
as one of the recipients of the IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) 2016 Graduate
Student Fellowships . 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 2016 IEEE Photonics
Conference, 2-6 October 2016, at Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii USA.
Three PhD students from the group were selected to receive the fellowship
in the last 4 years (Hiva 2012, Weilin 2015, Weifeng 2016).
- July 2016: The paper authored by Prof. Yao entitled
"Microwave Photonics" published in
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology in 2009 was selected as one of the
most impactful papers in the special paper collection
A Third of a Century of Lightwave Technology.
This special collection contains the most impactful papers
from JLT's third of a century-long history, reflecting
on the progress and impact that lightwave technologies have had on society.
- June 2016: Congratulations to Weilin and Xiang on
receiving a scholarship ($6000 each) from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to support their
graduate studies in the University of Ottawa. The scholarship program was created by the CSC
to support outstanding self-financed students studying abroad.
- June 2016: Congratulations to Weifeng and Xiang on receiving a
prestigious 2016 SPIE scholarship ($2,500 each). The SPIE scholarship program
was created by the the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) to support
outstanding students for their potential long-range contribution to optics and photonics.
- June 2016: Prof. Yao is conferred the title of
Distinguished
University Professor of the University of Ottawa. The title of Distinguished University Professor
is conferred on faculty members in recognition of exceptional scholarly
achievement, pre-eminence in a field of knowledge and a solid teaching record.
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 February 2016: Prof. Yao and his team, in collaboration with
Prof. Larry Coldren from the University of California
Santa Barbara, has published a new study demonstrating the
first fully reconfigurable photonic integrated signal processor,
in the prestigious scientific journal
Nature Photonics.
Please read the uOttawa media release
uOttawa scientist announces a
breakthrough photonic signal processor.
- January 2016: Prof. Yao and two other scientists interviewed by
Nature Photonics to comment on the development of
programmable optical chips.
Prof. Jianping Yao, PhD, PEng, FIEEE, FOSA, FCAE
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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