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GOLD
Session
Graduates of The Last Decade
Time: Sunday 23, September 2012 1:30pm - 3:30pm Place: Sandpebble Room
Schedule of Event
Welcome : Scott Yam, Gold Coordinator, of IEEE Photonics Conference 2012
Invited Talk Title : From PhD Candidate to Principal Investigator
Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University,
Abstract: While graduating with a PhD offers exceptional opportunities, it does come with numerous questions about career
choices. Depending on geographical location, work culture, personal situation, navigating after-PhD life is not necessarily
straightforward. The talk will present one story out of many with the hope of providing answers to some of those questions
.
Biography: Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur received the B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University
(Montreal, Canada) in 1999, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University
(New York, USA) in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Her doctoral research work focused on the physical layer of
optical interconnection networks for high performance computing. Prior to her graduatestudies, she worked three
years in industry from 1999 to 2002, for Teradyne in Boston as an applications engineer (1999-2000) and for Texas
Instruments as a test engineer (2000-2002). During her Ph.D., she spent four months in 2006 as an intern at the
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY working on optical chip-to-chip interconnection. In
2007, Dr. Liboiron-Ladouceur received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.
She is currently an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at McGill University and is a Canada
Research Chair in photonic interconnects. As a principal investigator, she has raised over $1.6M in research grants for the operation
and supporting infrastructure towards her research related to energy-efficient optical data communication. She currently supervises
ten students. She is an associate editor for the IEEE Photonics Technology Lettersince 2009. She is the author or coauthor of over
65 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She has two provisional patents and one pending patent.
Poster Presentations
2012 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship winners
Tingyi Gu
Columbia University
Jens Hofrichter
Eindhoven University of Technology
Domanic Lavery
University College, London
William Loh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan Luo
Nanyang Technological University
Hiva Shahoei
University of Ottawa
Yan Shi
Eindhoven University of Technology
Ke Wang
University of Melbourne
Jin Yan
University of Central Florida
Yue Zhou
University of Hong Kong