A year of accomplishments for Professor Leslie Rusch

Professor Leslie Rusch has something to be proud of this year. Throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, her research group and herself have received multiple research grants and a teaching prize, published dominant papers among them one in IEEE Communications Magazine and was invited as a guest speaker for a workshop. Equally, four of her graduate students were awarded a scholarship.

Research grant and teaching prize

• 2021: Une foresterie agile face au climat: De l'écosystème jusqu'aux marchés: CFI - total funding 3,432,151$; co-applicant

• 2021: A High Resolution Optical Spectrum Analyzer for Optical Communications; RTI; total funding 150,000$; principal applicant

• 2022: Reconfigurable broadband photonic characterization system; RTI; total funding 150,000$; co-applicant

• 2021: Prof. Leslie Rusch received the Teaching Prize at the AESGUL Student Merit Gala

Publications and talks

• “Silicon Photonics in Optical Access Networks for 5G Communications” by Xun Guan, Wei Shi, Jia Liu, Jim Slevinsky, and  Leslie Rusch in IEEE Communications Magazine

• Zibo Zheng’s paper “Silicon IQ Modulator for 120 Gbaud QAM” was selected for the ECOC 2021 Best Student Paper Award (10 finalists)

• Leslie Rusch’s invited workshop presentation at OFC 2021 “Challenges and opportunities in scaling SiP to higher baud rates”

Students recognition

• 2021: MSc student Ariane Gouin received the scholarship of the AFDU Québec Danielle V. Gagnon

• 2021: PhD student Hamed Rabbani received the ESSOR scholarship from the Faculty of Science and Engineering of UL

• 2021: MSc student Arman Safarnejadian received the Citizens' Scholarship of the World BCCM-FSG

• 2022: PhD student Arash Rabiepoor received the Citizens' Scholarship of the World BCCM-FSG

Prof. Leslie Rusch