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Research Interests

Nanophotonics • Photonic Integrated Circuits • Photonic Computing • Neuromorphic Photonics • Quantum Neural Networks

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Employment and Experience

July 2018 – present: Assistant Professor, Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
July 2022 – present: Cross-Appointed, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Dec. 2020 – present: Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
July 2018 – present: Visiting Researcher Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
May 2016 – June 2018: Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Jan. 2012 – Apr. 2016: Banting and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Education

2012: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2007: M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2005: Honours B.Eng. with distinction in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Recognition

Research Awards (Selected)

• , The Royal Society of Canada (2024)
•  (2024)
• Scientific Co-Director, NUCLEUS , NSERC (2024-)
• in Neuromorphic Photonic Computing (2024-)
• , Ministry of Colleges and Universities (2024-2019)
•  (2022)
• (2022)
• (2020-2024)
• , ICO (2020)
• (2020)
• (2019)
• , Government of Canada, NSERC (2014–2016)
• , McGill University (2012)
•  (2011)
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• , McGill University (2007–2011)
• , McGill University (2007–2011)

Paper Awards (Selected)

• IEEE Photonics Conference Student Paper Award, 3rd place (2014)
• , 2nd place (2010)
•  (2008)
• , IEEE Computer Society (2004)
• , IEEE Canada (2003)

Teaching Awards

• , Queen’s University (2020)
•  (2019)
• , McGill University (2010)

Academic Honours (Selected)

• , McGill University (2004)
• , McGill University (2001)

Professional Activities

Editorial Activities

• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (2022–present)
• Editorial Board Member, JPhys Photonics (2019–present)
• Guest Editor, Communications Physics & Communications Engineering (2023–)
• Guest Editor, Scientific Reports (2023–)
• Co-Lead Guest Editor, JPhys Photonics (2023–)
• Primary Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2021–2023)
• Guest Editor, Optics Materials Express (2021-2022)
• Guest Editor, JPhys Photonics (2020-2021)
• Co-Primary Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2018-2020)

Technical Program Committee Memberships

• Program Committee Member, SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA (2025, Aug.)
• Program Committee Member, SPIE Photonics West Conference, Silicon Photonics XIX, San Francisco, CA, USA (2025, Jan.)
• Program Committee Member, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Rome, Italy (2024, Nov.)
• Committee Member, SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (2024, Aug.)
• Sub-committee Member, OPTICA, Integrated Photonics Research (IPR), Quebec City, QC, Canada (2024, July)
• Committee Member, SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France (2024, Apr.)
• Program Committee Member, SPIE Photonics West Conference, Silicon Photonics XIX, San Francisco, CA, USA (2024, Jan.)
• Review Committee Member, International Conference on Neuromorphic, Natural and Physical Computing (NNPC), Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover, Germany (2023, Oct.) 
• Committee Member, Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), Italy (2023, Sep.)
• Committee Member, SPIE Optics & Photonics Congress, San Diego, CA, USA (2023, Aug.)
• Sub-committee Member, OPTICA Integrated Photonics Research (IPR), Busan, Republic of Korea (2023, July)
• Program Committee Member, IEEE SiPhotonics Conference, Arlington, VA, USA (2023, Apr.)
• Program Committee Member, SPIE Photonics West Conference, Silicon Photonics XIV, San Francisco, CA, USA (2023, Jan.)
• Sub-committee Co-Chair, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2022, Oct.)
• Special Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2022, Oct.)
• Sub-program Committee Member, Congress of the International Commission on Optics (ICO) and International Conference on Optics in the Life Sciences (OWLS), Dresden, Germany (2021, Sep.)
• Committee Member, SPIE Optics & Photonics Congress, San Diego, CA, USA (2022, Aug.)
• Sub-committee Member, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (APC), Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) (2022, July)
• Sub-committee Co-Chair, IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2021, Oct.)
• Committee Member, SPIE Optics & Photonics Congress, San Diego, CA, USA (2021, Aug.)
• Sub-committee Member, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (APC), Integrated Photonics Research (IPR), Montreal, QC, Canada (2021, July)
• Sub-committee Member, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Francisco, CA, USA (2021, Mar.)
• Workshop Organizer, “Photonics for Neuromorphic and High-Performance Computing”, European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium (2020, Dec.)
• Committee Member, SPIE Optics & Photonics Congress, San Diego, CA, USA (2020, Aug.)
• Sub-committee Member, Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO Pacific Rim), Sydney, Australia (2020, Aug.)
• Sub-committee Member, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA (2020, Mar.)
• Review Committee Member, Cognitive Computing, Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover, Germany (2018, Dec.)
• Sub-committee Member, IEEE Group IV Photonics, Cancun, Mexico (2018, Aug.)
• Session Chair, BEYOND! von Neumann Computing, Max Planck Society, Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany (2016, May)

Society & Research Council Activities

• Member, FWO Review College, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) (2021–2023)
• Committee Member, IEEE Photonics Society Technical Affairs Council (2019–present)
• President, McGill University OSA Student Chapter (2010–2011)
• Vice-President and Co-Founder, McGill University OSA Student Chapter (2008–2010)

Society Memberships

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Senior Member, Optica (OSA)
• Member, International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE)

Journal Referee

• Nature
• Science
• Science Advances
• Nature Communications
• Scientific Reports
• Optics Express
• Optics Letters
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Lightwave Technology
• IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• IEEE Photonics Journal
• Electronic Letters
• IEEE Access
• Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Presentations

Keynotes

• CadenceCONNECT Photonics, San Jose, CA, USA (2024, Feb.)
• Photonics & Advanced Intelligent Systems Symposium (PAIS), Hong Kong (2023, Dec.); online.
• Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education (CQuERE), TCG CREST, Symposium on Integrated Photonics and Quantum Optics, Kolkata (2023, July); online.
• 3rd International Conference on Optics, Optoelectronics and Measurement (ICOM), scheduled (2022, May); online.
• 3rd International Conference on Applied Photonics & Electronics (InCAPE), (2021, Oct.); online.
• OSA Photonics in Switching and Computing Conference (PSC) (2021, Sep.); online.
• TU Dresden, cfaed Colloquium, Dresden, Germany (2019, Sep.)
• International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN) Grand Canaria, Spain (2019, June)

Tutorials

• International Conference on Magnetics, Plasmonics, and Optical Technologies (ICAPMOT) (2021, May); online.
• Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) (2021, Nov.); online.
• IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM) (2021, July); online.
• European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) (2020, Dec.); online.

Invited Seminars & Talks

• COPL Workshop, Quebec City, QC, Canada (2024, Nov.)
• Jena LIGHT – Photonics meets AI, Jena, Germany (2024, Sep.); online
• NVIDIA Seminar (2024, Jul.); online
• iCANX Davos Summit, Davos, Switzerland (2024, Jul.)
• ETH Zurich Seminar, Zurich, Switzerland (2024, Jul.)
• Wilhelm und Else-Heraeus -Seminar on Photonics for Information Processing, Bad Honnef, Germany (2024, June)
• Q.ANT Q.olloquium, Stuttgart, Germany (2024, May); online
• Sorbonne University, Paris, France (2024, Apr.)
• INRS Optica-SPIE Chapter, Montreal, QC, Canada (2024, Mar.)
• IEEE Photonic Society Montreal Chapter, Montreal, QC, Canada (2024, Feb.)
• Optical/Photonic Computing Systems (OPTSys) Seminar Series (2024, Feb.); online
• iCANX Talks (2023, Dec.); online.
• International Forum on Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems (OPTICS) (2023, Nov.); online.
• Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference (CSSTC), Montreal, QC, Canada (2023, Aug.)
• IOP Publishing - Webinar, More than Moore, scheduled (2023, June); online.
• University of Toronto, Compute Acceleration Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada (2023, May).
• Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA (2023, May)
• Boston University, ECE Speaker Series, Boston, MA, USA (2023, Mar.)
• Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing (SPHPC), Montreal, QC, Canada (2023, Feb.)
• Optica Webinar (2023, Feb.); online.
• Rank Symposium, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK (2023, Feb.)
• IEEE Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC), Shenzhen, China, (2022, Dec.); online.
• Raytheon Technologies Processing & Photonics Workshop (2022, Sep.); online.
• European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Basel, Switzerland, (2022, Sep.); online.
• Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO-PR), Sapporo, Japan (2022, Aug.); online.
• Optica Advanced Photonics Congress (APC), Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks), Maastricht, The Netherlands (2022, July); online.
• Germanium Materials and Detectors Advancement Research Consortium (GEMADARC), Summer School, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2022, June)
• IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2022, June)
• Photonics North (PN) Conference, Niagara Fall, ON, Canada (2022, May)
• IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Newport Beach, CA, USA (2022, Apr.); online.
• PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Hangzhou, China (2022, Apr.); online.
• Queen’s University, ECE Seminar, Kingston, ON, Canada (2022, Apr.); online.
• Workshop on Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems (OPTICS) (2022, Apr.); online.
• DATE 2022, Designing Brain-Inspired Chips, scheduled (2022, Mar.); online.
• CU Boulder, ECEE Department Seminar, (2022, Jan.); online.
• H2020 EU Projects, 1st Workshop on Neuromorphic Photonics, Thessaloniki, Greece (2021, Dec.); online.
• POST-DIGITAL ETN European H2020 Project Summer School, Novel Nonlinear Substrates for Neural Networks, Besancon, France (Sep. 2021); online.
• Fraunhofer HHI, Summer School on AI for Optical Networks & Neuromorphic Photonics for AI Acceleration, Berlin, Germany (2021, Sep.); online.
• Institute for Neural Computing (INC), University of California, San Diego, INC Chalk Talk Series, San Diego, CA scheduled for (2021, Aug.); online.
• OSA Optoelectronics Technical Group, Campfire Session on Neuromorphic Photonics—Directions and Future Prospects (2021, June); online
• 11th Optoelectronics and Photonics Summer School: Neuromorphic Photonics, Trento, Italy (2021, June); online
• IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Atlanta, GA (2021, June); online
• (x2) Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) (2021, June); online
• Photonics North (PN) Conference (2021, June); online
• International Conference on Light and Light-based Technologies (ICLLT), Ankara, Turkey (2021, May); online
• Workshop on Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems (OPTICS) (2021, Apr.); online
• CPIC/Photons Canada, Quebec City, QC, Canada (2021, Mar.); online
• University of Toronto, Photonics Innovation Centre Seminar Series, ON, Canada (2021, Jan.); online
• Material Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting (2020, Nov.); online
• Nature Quantum and Optical Technology Community, London, UK (2020, Nov.); online
• International Conference on Future Technology and Disruptive Innovation, Hangzhou, China (2020, Oct.); online
• Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Beijing, China (2020, Oct.); online
• (x2) OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (APC), Montreal, QC, Canada (2020, July); online
• Photonics North Conference, Niagara Fall, ON, Canada (2020, May); online
• (x2) SPIE Photonics West (OPTO), San Francisco, CA, USA (2020, Feb.)
• Toyota Research Institute of North America, Photonics Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (2020, Jan.)
• IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA (2019, July)
• Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO/Europe), Munich, Germany (2019, June)
• Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN), Minneapolis, MN (2019, May) 
• Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA (2019, May)
• National Research Council Canada (NRC), Ottawa, ON, Canada (2019. Apr.)
• IEEE-IRDS Beyond CMOS Workshop: Emerging Architectures and Devices, Monterey, CA, USA (2019. Mar.)
• Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Lecture Tour: University of Ottawa (ON), Polytechnique Montréal (QC), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (QC), Carleton University (ON), Ryerson University (ON), and Western University (ON), Canada (2019, Feb.-Mar.)
• Huawei Canada, Advanced Optical Communication Systems Workshop, Quebec City, QC, Canada (2018, Oct.)
• SPIE Active Photonic Platforms X, SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA, USA (2018, Aug.)
• The University of British Columbia (UBC), CMC Microsystems Passive Silicon Photonics SiEPIC Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2018, Aug.)
• Novel Frontier of Optics for Computing, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan (2018, July)
• NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Seminar, Atsugi, Japan (2018, July)
• George Washington University, NSF/SRC E2CDA e-Kickoff Meeting, Dulles, VA, USA (2018, Mar.)
• RMIT University, BITS: Brain-Inspired Technologies and Systems, Melbourne, Australia (2017, Oct.)
• University of California, San Diego, Integrated Optical Computing Accelerator Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA (2017, Oct.)
• OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (APC), New Orleans, LA, USA (2017, July)
• Queen’s University, Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Departmental Colloquium, Kingston, ON, Canada (2017, July)
• City University of Hong Kong, Seminar, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (2017, Apr.)
• The University of British Columbia, Seminar, Kelowna, BC, Canada (2017, Apr.)
• OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (APC), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2016, July)
• IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), Newport Beach, CA, USA (2016, July)
• Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, BEYOND! von Neumann Computing, Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany (2016, May)
• York University, Seminar, Toronto, ON, Canada (2016, Mar.)
• Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Seminar, Montreal, QC, Canada (2016, Mar.)
• École Polytechnique de Montréal, Engineering Physics Seminar, Montreal, QC, Canada (2015, Nov.)
• University of Oxford, Engineering Science Lecture, Oxford, UK (2015, Sep.)
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,ECE Seminar, Champaign, IL, USA (2015, Apr.)
• McMaster University, Engineering Physics Seminar Series, Hamilton, ON, Canada (2015, Apr.)
• University of Cambridge, Lecture, Cambridge, UK (2015, Apr.)
• Harvard University, Electrical Engineering Seminar Series, Cambridge, MA, USA (2015, Mar.)
• City College of City University of New York, Seminar, New York, NY, USA (2015, Mar.)
• The Johns Hopkins University, ECE Seminar, Baltimore, MD, USA (2015, Feb.)
• International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Application (NOLTA), Luzern, Switzerland (2014, Sep.)
• IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter and Signal Processing Chapter, Teaneck, NJ, USA (2013, Sep.)
• Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent Green ICT Summit, Murray Hill, NJ, USA (2013, Jan.)
• SPIE Photonics West (OPTO), San Francisco, CA, USA (2011, Jan.)