Alumni

Degree
Name
Date
Present Position

PhD Students

Mauricio Tosi
[co-supervised with
Prof. Pablo A Costanzo Caso]
Mar. 2021 – Feb. 2025
TBA
Xinyi Zhu
Sept. 2019 – Aug. 2024
Postdoctoral research fellow, INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada.
Saket Kaushal
Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2023
Optoelectronic Research Engineer, Sanmina, Ottawa, Canada
Lei Yue
[co-supervised with Prof. Jian Wu,
Beijing University of Posts and Telecom.]
Jan. 2017 – May 2021
Research Associate, Beijing UPT, Beijing, China.
Saikrishna Reddy Konatham
Sept. 2016 – Nov. 2021
Research Engineer, amPICQ, Hyderabad, India.
Giacomo Balistreri
[co-supervised with Prof. Morandotti,
INRS-EMT]
May 2016 – Dec. 2020
Postdoctoral research fellow, INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada.
Jeonghyun Huh
Aug. 2013 – Oct. 2018
Optical R&D Engineer, Cisco Optical GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany.
Luis Romero Cortés
Jan. 2012 – Aug. 2018
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Fibsen Innovations, Spain.
Reza Maram Qartavol
Jan. 2012 – Nov. 2016
R&D Team Leader, FONEX Data Systems Inc., Montreal, Canada.
Hamed Pishvai Bazargani
Jan. 2012 – Sept 2016
Principal Engineer (Silicon Photonics PIC designer), Broadcom, San Jose, California, USA.
María Rosario Fernández-Ruiz
Sept. 2011 – April 2016
Assistant Professor, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain.
Bo Li
[co-supervised with Prof. S. Lou,
Beijing Jiaotong University]
Sept. 2012 – July 2015
Professor, Fudan Uni., Shanghai, China.
Reza Ashrafi
Sept. 2009 – June 2014
Senior R&D Engineer, Infinera, Ottawa, Canada.
Mohammad Hossein Asghari
Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2011
Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, and co-founder of Time Photonics Inc., Los Angeles, USA.
Luis Miguel Rivas Asensio
[co-supervised with Prof. A.
Carballar, Univ. Sevilla, Spain]
May 2005 – July 2012
Fangxin Li
Sept. 2004 – Sept. 2009
Laser Engineer, Lumentum, Ottawa, Canada.
Joshua Schwartz
[co-supervised with Prof. D.V. Plant,
McGill Univ.]
Sept. 2004 – Dec. 2007
Associate Professor, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Master’s Students

Afsaneh Shoeib
Jan. 2021 – May 2024
Research Assistant, INRS-EMT.
Connor Rowe
Jun 2020 – Oct. 2023
PhD student, INRS-EMT.
Benjamin Crockett
Jan. 2017 – Aug. 2019
PhD student, INRS-EMT.
Jinwoo Jeon
Sept. 2016 – April 2018
Engineer in a high-tech company in Korea.
Antonin Deville
Jan. – Dec. 2016
(research thesis supervisor)
Engineer in a high-tech company in France.
Line Rahal
Jan. – Dec. 2015
(research thesis supervisor)
Data Engineer, Vroomly, Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Faisal Hoqe
Jan. 2009 – June 2011
Radio Frequency Designer, Aecon Group Inc., Etobicoke, Canada.
Saju Thomas
Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2009
Systems Engineer, MDA, Ottawa, Canada.
Kanwarpal Singh
May 2005 – June 2006
Assistant Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Shulabh Gupta
Sept. 2004 – Dec. 2006
Associate Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Postdoc Research Fellows
(>6 months)

Dr. Saket Kaushal
Sept. 2023 – Aug. 2024
Optoelectronic Research Engineer, Sanmina, Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Manuel Fernandez
Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2023
Assistant Professor, Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina.
Dr. Luis Romero Cortés
Sept. 2018 – Mar. 2020
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Fibsen Innovations, Spain.
Dr. Daniel Onori
Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2020
Senior Photonic Design Engineer, Lumiphase, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dr. Mohamed Seghilani
March 2016 – Dec. 2018
R&D Engineer – Optical Sensing, Apple, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA.
Dr. Xiao-Zhou Li
Jan. 2017 – Sept 2018
Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian City, China.
Dr. Reza Maram Qartavol
Dec. 2017 – Aug. 2018
R&D Team Leader, Fonex Data Systems Inc., Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Lei Lei
July 2014 – Sept. 2015
Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, Guangdong, China.
Dr. Maurizio Burla
Oct. 2012 – Sept. 2015
Full Professor, Chair of High Frequency Technologies and Photonics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Abdul Rahim
[co-supervised with Prof. S. LaRochelle,
Univ. Laval]
Oct. 2013 – Jan. 2015
Ecosystem Manager, PhotonDelta, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands.
Dr. Wansu Lim
[co-supervised with Prof. M. Maier,
INRS-EMT]
June 2013 – June 2014
Associate Professor, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, North Gyeongsang, South Korea.
Dr. Ming Li
June 2011 – Jan. 2013
Chaired Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China.
Dr. Antonio Malacarne
Nov. 2009 – Oct. 2011
Assistant Professor, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
Dr. Joshua Schwartz
Jan. 2008 – Sept. 2010
Associate Professor, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Dr. Tae-Jung Ahn
April 2006 – March 2008
Associate Professor, Chosun University, South Korea.
Dr. Yongwoo Park
April 2005 – Dec. 2008
Senior Hardware Engineer,  Amazon, Bellevue, Washington, USA.

Research Associates

Dr. Yongwoo Park
Jan. 2009 – Dec. 2010
Senior Hardware Engineer
Amazon, USA.

Visiting Faculty

Prof. Christophe Caloz
Oct. 2018 – May 2019
Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Prof. José Capmany
May – Sept. 2018 &
May – Sept. 2019
Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.
Prof. Xiaowei Dong
Sept. 2017 – Dec. 2018
Professor, North China University of Technology, Beijing.
Prof. Maksim Skorobogatiy
Jan. – Dec. 2017 &
Jan. – Dec. 2022 &
May 2024 – Apr. 2025
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada.
Prof. Carlos Rodríguez Fernández-Pousa
September-December 2016
Professor, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain.
Dr. Hugues G. de Chatellus
August 2014 – May 2015
Senior Research Staff member, CNRS – Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France.
Prof. James Van Howe
May – August 2013 &
August 2016
Professor, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA.
Prof. Alejandro Carballar
May – August 2011
Professor, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

Short-Term Visiting
Members

Researchers

Dr. R. Slavík
Dr. M. Scaffardi
Dr. J. Kaur

Graduate Students

C. Wang
M. Fernandez
J. Manuel Luque Gonzalez
G. Cebria Oliveira
C. Schnébelin
P. Roztocki
Ch. Reimer
J. Pastor Graells
Z. Wu
Y. Gao
J.-B. Quélène
S. Thomas
E. Lazzeri
F. Fresi
A. Malacarne
D. Krcmarík
I. Arnedo

Undergraduate Students

A. Boubaker
I. Hamam
Y. Atlas
C. Bernerd
S. Batwami
B. Crockett
B. Hardy
T. Payette
D. Duchesne
P. Ndione