Nov 2, 2025 – Dr. Ye is among World鈥檚 top 2% most-cited scholars: ““
Oct 27, 2025 – PhD candidate William Fraser won Second Prize in the 2025 IEEE Student Paper competition, 2025 International Photonics North Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 20-22, 2025.
May 27, 2025 – Dr. Ye is elected as a Fellow of
May 26, 2025 – Dr. Ye received the !
May 1, 2025 – PhD candidate William Fraser’s work on metamaterial grating coupler in silicon nitride, published in Scientific Reports, has been recognized as one of the top downloaded papers of 2024!
February 18, 2025 –聽 Dr. Ye received the 2025 Optica鈥檚 !
October 7, 2024 – PhD graduate Dusan Gostimirovic was featured in 杏吧原创’s Newsroom article
Oct 20, 2024 – PhD candidate William Fraser won Second Prize in the 2024 IEEE Student Paper competition, 2024 International Photonics North Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 28-30, 2024.
June 26, 2024 – Dr. Ye is selected as
April 30, 2024 – Ilyas Kandid and William Fraser won the Ontario Graduate Scholarship – congratulations.
Oct 31, 2023 – Dr. Ye is elected as a .
Oct 12, 2023 – Dr. Ye is elected to serve as the .
Oct 1, 2023 – Dr. Ye is elected to serve on the , starting in Jan 2024.
Feb 21, 2023 -PhD student Ilyas Kandid won Gary S. Duck Graduate Scholarship in Photonics.
Jan 8, 2023 – Dr. Ye is featured on the homepage of
Sept 24, 2022 – PhD student Shahrzad Khajavi won the Best Student Presentation Award at the in Porto, Portugal.
July 28, 2022 – Dr. Ye is shortlisted for the Woman of the Year Award by Women in IT Awards – Canada.
March 10, 2022 – Dr. Ye received 杏吧原创 University’s Graduate Mentoring Award.
Feb 20, 2022 – Graduate student William Fraser won Gary S. Duck Graduate Scholarship in Photonics.
Dec 10, 2021 – Pablo Ginel Moreno’s has won the Best Student Paper Award at Group IV Photonics Conference!
Nov 20, 2021 – Dr. Ye won the “for her exemplary leadership and distinguished contributions in promoting and supporting activities at local, regional, and international IEEE engineering communities”.
Jul 30, 2021 – Pablo Ginel-Moreno’s latest paper “”, published in Optics Letters, has been highlighted as an Editor’s Pick.
May 9, 2021 – PhD student Dr. Dusan Gostimirovic won the Senate Medal for his outstanding work in his PhD ptoject.
April 26, 2021 – MASc student Kevan MacKay won Gradflix 60 sec to explain your research award (3rd place and People’s Choice Award). Here is Kevan’s winning video .
March 23, 2021 – Dr. Ye won the 2021 Research Award from the Faculty of Engineering and Design at 杏吧原创 University.
Feb 15, 2021 – Master’s student Andrew Branicki won Gary S. Duck Graduate Scholarship in Photonics.
Nov 6, 2020 – Congratulations to Dusan on a successful Ph.D. thesis defense! Very proud of you, Dr. Gostimirovic.
Oct 8, 2020 – William Fraser won the Chudobiak Entrepreneurship Award in Electrical Engineering!
May 14, 2020 – Dr. Ye won Partners in Research National Award: .
March 4, 2020 – IEEE Ottawa Section won the IEEE Canada Exemplary Large Section Award in Toronto!
February 13, 2020 – Master’s student Kevan MacKay won .
January 2020 – Dr. Ye is inducted as the Fellow of the .
January 1, 2020 – Dr. Ye is the re-elected IEEE Ottawa Section Chair
Nombermber 1, 2019 – Dr. Ye is the Chair-Elect of the Photonics and Opto-Electronics Technical Division of the Optical Society (OSA) in 2020-2021.
October 21, 2019 – Congratulations to Alejandro Sanchez-Postigo for publishing his PhD work at NRC in . Welcome to my group, Alejandro!
September 26, 2019 – Shuxia Li’s recent publication, “JFET Integration Using a Foundry SOI Photonics Platform,” was selected as the Issue Cover for Issue 19, 2019 of Applied Science.
September 12, 2019 – Dr. Ye became the Associate editor of OSA’s new open-access journal “PhotoniX”.
September 3, 2019 – Dr. Ye received the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award. Dr. Ye is now designated as a 杏吧原创 University teaching fellow.
JUne 24, 2019 – Dr.Ye became an OSA Senior Member.
January 1, 2019 – Dr. Ye is the elected IEEE Ottawa Section Chair
December 15, 2018 – Neah Purwaha won the SPIE Travel Grant to attend Photonics West
November 17, 2018 – Dr. Ye was the winner of the 2018 Ontario Professional Engineers Award (OPEA)’s
Oct 8, 2018 – Dusan Gostimirovic won the 2017-2018 Graduate Student Open Access Award.
June 14, 2018 – Dr. Ye was the winner of the 2018 .
April 1, 2018 – Dusan Gostimirovic won the NSERC-PGS D scholarship.
April 7, 2018 – Congratulations to Abrar, David, Khan and Alex for winning the Best Oral Presentation for their 4th year project!
February 5, 2018 – Niharika Kohli won the Shastri Indian-Canadian Research Student Fellowship.
February 21, 2018 – Dr. Ye was the winner of the PEO Ottawa Chapter’s 2018 Engineering Excellence Award.
February 13, 2018 – Dr. Ye’s 4th year project on LIDAR was selected to received $500 from the Capstone Design Project Fund (Faculty of Engineering, 杏吧原创 University).
November 20, 2017 – Dr. Ye is elected as the Chair of the Optoelectronics Technical Group of the Optical Society (OSA) (2018-2021).
October 27, 2017 – The IEEE Women-in-Engineering Ottawa Chapter is the winner of the 2017 Outstanding Affinity Group of the Year Award, presented by the IEEE Ottawa Section.
September 8, 2017 – Prof. Ye’s research on airborne toxins is featured by .
August 30, 2017 – Congratulations to David Lister for representing Team Canada to compete at the this October in the Mechanical CADD contest.
May 23, 2017 – Invited seminar talk on “Silicon Photonics” to the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Vancouver Chapter, Vancouver, BC.
Apr 27, 2017 – a panelist to the
Apr 2016 – Our aircraft cabin air quality sensor project with Specific Range Solutions (SRS) is featured in the April 2016 issue of the .
Aug 26, 2015 – The IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Section Chapter is the winner of the 2015 IEEE Photonics Society Chapter of the Year Award.
Jul 1, 2015 – Dr. Ye was elected as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Section Chapter.
May 6, 2015 – Yule Xiong has won the prestigious “2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad””
Feb 2015 – for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature.
Jan 2015 – NSERC Strategic Projects Selection Panel 鈥� Information and Communications Technologies (2015-2018)
Dec 4, 2014 – Bryce Dorin and Dr. Ye are featured in the CMC Newsletter ““
Dec 12, 2014 – Congratulations to the brand new PhD in the group – Dr. Yule Xiong!
Dec 10, 2014 – Owen Marsh won the 3rd place for Department of Electronic’s Teaching Assistance Award
Oct 1, 2014 – Dusan Gostimirovic, Shuyu Ding, Owen Marsh, and Yao Sun won the Ed Ireland Engineering Award
Aug 30, 2014 – Bryce Dorin won Nature Photonics’ Best Student Oral Presentation at the IEEE group IV Photonics (GFP’14) conference, Paris, France.
July 1, 2014 – Received $150,000 from NSERC-RTI program for the Micro/NanoPhotonics Lab.
June 10, 2014 – Congratulations to Bryce Dorin on winning a Senate Medal for his outstanding graduate thesis.
April 1, 2014 – Bryce Dorin won the .
March 28, 2014 – Dr. Ye has her Canada Research Chair (Tier II) renewed for a 2nd term.
Dec 6, 2013 – Yule Xiong received the David and Rachel Epstein Foundation Scholarship.
Oct 13, 2013 – Team Ontario (Max St-Jacques and Chris Pasco) won the 1st Place for the Engineering Contest of the
Jun 5, 2013 – Ali Aleali wins the Best Student Presentation on the “Photonic theory, design and simulation” session at the SPIE Photonics North conference
May 22, 2013 – Ali Aleali, Yule Xiong, and Adam Bottomley won the – 杏吧原创 News congratulations to Adam, Ali and Yule!!
Mar 1, 2013 – Dusan Gostimirovic, Yule Xiong, and Yao Sun won the Ed Ireland Engineering Award
Jan 6, 2013 – Dr. Ye wins
Nov 26, 2012 – Marc successfully passed his M.A.Sc. thesis defence – Congratulations, Marc!
Nov 20, 2012 – Dr. Ye was invited to speak at the IEEE Joint Seminar on Photonics, organized by IEEE WIE, Photonics Society, ComSoc, BTS and CES Ottawa Joint Chapters, IEEE Canada Area East, IEEE Ottawa Section Gold, and 杏吧原创 University SPIE Student Chapter
Oct 17, 2012 – Dr. Ye received IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE) grade
Sep 1, 2012 – Bryce Dorin won the Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship!
May 31, 2012 – Dr. Ye becomes the Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Ottawa Chapter
May 14, 2012 – Abdulhak Nagy won the 2012
Apr 30, 2012 – Dr. Ye won MRI\’s .
Mar 30, 2012 – Martin Friedl won the IPP CERN Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Mar 15, 2012 – Dr. Ye is invited to speak at the
Feb 21, 2012 – Congratulations to Simon Mack on winning his NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
Feb 27, 2012 – Abdulhak Nagy won $1000 in the !! – Congratulations to your creative writing!
Feb 23, 2012 – Dr. Ye is invited to speak at the organized by IEEE Ottawa Section Antennas and Propagation Society and Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (AP / MTT) Joint Chapter, IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter (LEOS), and IEEE Ottawa Section (OS) on Silicon photonics
Feb 9, 2012 – Abdulhak Nagy won – congratulations!
Jan 12, 2012 – Dr. Ye involved in the
Dec 2011 – Abdulhak Nagy won the
Oct 11, 2011 – Yule Xiong and Martin Friedl won Ed Ireland Award for Engineering – Congratulations, Yule and Martin!
May 19, 2011 – Marc Ibrahim won the 2nd prize on his poster presentation at the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI) Annual General Meeting
May 3, 2011 – Dr. Ye won !
Apr 21, 2011 – Congratulations to Martin Friedl, Jeremy Miller, and Michael Sawires on winning NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
Feb 16, 2011 – Invited speaker for the “Beyond Engineering” Seminar Series, organized by the IEEE Ottawa Section
Jan 18, 2010 – Marc Ibrahim and Andrew Tam won Ed Ireland Award for Engineering
Oct 10, 2010 – Interview , published on Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 42-45 (2010).
Oct 8, 2010 – Dr. Ye Wins Technology Exploitation and Networking (TEN) Collaboration Grant from the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI)
Sep 1, 2010 – Yule Xiong wins the
Aug 4, 2010 – Invited keynote speaker for the International Conference on Nanotechnology, organized by International Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (ASET)
Apr 23, 2010 – Dr. Ye received the CFI equipment grant