Awards, Distinctions and Scholarships (Selected)

  • 2020 Brockhouse Canada Prize for interdisciplinary research in science and engineering, Prof. José Azaña (with Prof. Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT).
  • Canada Research Chair in “Ultrafast Photonic Signal Processing” (Gov. of Canada), Prof. José Azaña (2011-2021).
  • Include here Master thesis awards at INRS-EMT of Benjamin Crockett
  • 2020 OSA Bernand J. Couillard Prize for early-careers researchers (financially sponsored by Coherent Inc.), Dr. Bo Li.
  • OSA Travel Award – CLEO 2020, Mr. Saikrishna Reddy Konatham.
  • Corning Outstanding Student Paper – Finalist, Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference 2020, Mr. Saikrishna Reddy Konatham.
  • Best Student Paper Award, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2019, Mr. Saikrishna Reddy Konatham.
  • Fellow of the Optical Society of America, Prof. José Azaña (2016).
  • Ericsson Prize to the Best Doctoral Thesis in Telecommunication Engineering by the Spanish National Association of Telecommunication Engineers, Dr. M. Rosario Fernández (2016).
  • Canada Governor General Gold Medal finalist & Excellence award in graduate studies from INRS, Dr. M. Rosario Fernández (2016), Dr. M. Hossein Asghari (2011).
  • NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (Gov. of Canada), Prof. José Azaña (2014-2017).
  • Best Doctoral Thesis Award at INRS-EMT, Dr. Reza Maram (2016), Dr. Reza Ashrafi (2014).
  • IEEE-Photonics Society PhD Student Grant, Dr. M. Hossein Asghari (2009).
  • Canada Governor General Gold Medal (at McGill Univ.), Dr. Joshua Schwartz (2008).
  • 2009 IEEE Microwave Prize from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society, Dr. Joshua Schwartz and Prof. José Azaña (with Prof. D.V. Plant, McGill Univ.)
  • 2008 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award from the IEEE Photonics Society, Prof. Prof. José Azaña
  • Work published by the group has been selected by the Optical Society of America (OSA) into their yearly list of the most relevant scientific results in Optics and Photonics, as reported in the December issue of OSA Optics and Photonics News, in the years 2020, 2019 (twice), 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2014.
  • Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Gov. of Spain), Dr. Luis Romero Cortés (2021-2023), Dr. M. Rosario Fernández (2017-2019).
  • FRQNT Excellence (‘Merit’) Scholarship for foreign postdoctoral researchers (Quebec Gov.), Dr. Daniel Onori (2018-2020), Dr. Mohamed S. Seghilani (2016-2018), Dr. Lei Lei (2014-2015), Dr. Maurizio Burla (2013-2015), Dr. Yongwoo Park (2006-2008).
  • NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Gov. of Canada), Dr. Reza Maram (2018-2020, held at McGill Univ.)
  • NSERC Postdoctoral research fellowship (Gov. of Canada), Dr. M. Hossein Asghari (2011-2013, held at the UCLA, USA), Dr. Joshua Schwartz (2008-2010).
  • KSF Postdoctoral research fellowship from the Korean Science Foundation, Dr. Tae-Jung Ahn (2006-2008).
  • NSERC Doctoral research scholarship (Gov. of Canada), Mr. Benjamin Crockett (2020 – ), Dr. Joshua Schwartz (2004-2008).
  • CSC Doctoral scholarship from the Chinese State Council, Dr. Bo Li (2012-2015), Mr. Lei Yue (2018 – 2021).
  • FRQNT Excellence (‘Merit’) Scholarship for foreign doctoral students (Quebec Gov.), Mr. Saikrishna Reddy Konatham (2016-2020), Dr. Hamed P. Bazargani (2012-2016), Dr. Reza Maram (2012-2016).
  • FRQNT Scholarship for Master studies (Quebec Gov.), Mr. Benjamin Crockett (2017-2019).