IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) 2011 Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients:

The IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) established the Graduate Student Fellowship Program to provide Graduate Fellowships to outstanding Photonics Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Photonics Society field of interest. Applicants are normally in their penultimate year of study and receive the award for their final year and must be a Photonics Society student member. Recipients are apportioned geographically in approximate proportion to the numbers of student members in each of the main geographical regions (Americas, Europe/Mid-East/Africa, Asia/Pacific). There are ten Fellows per year. The deadline for nominations is May 30th.
     The presentation will be made during the Awards Banquet at the 2011 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) formerly known as the IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting at the Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, USA on Monday 10th October, 2011.
     The IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) is proud to present profiles of our 2011 Graduate Student Fellows:
     Shamsul Arafin – Technische Universität München
     Honglei Guo – University of Ottawa
     Yu-Ting Hsueh – Georgia Institute of Technology
     Wangzhe Li – University of Ottawa
     Hungyen Lin – The University of Adelaide
     Linghui Rao – University of Central Florida
     Bruno Romeira – University of Algarve
     Bhavin Shastri – McGill University
     Zhaobing Tian – McGill University
     Yang Yue – University of Southern California

Shamsul Arafin

Shamsul Arafin received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2005, and the M.Sc. degree in Communication Technology from Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany, in 2008.
     He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. M.C. Amann. His current research interests include GaSb-based Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) for wavelengths above 2 μm.
     During his PhD study, till now he has authored and coauthored more than 30 papers in leading technical journals and international conferences, including one invited paper presented at the ISLC 2010, Kyoto, Japan. He is the first author of five papers in different peer reviewed journals. In 2010, he won the Best Student Paper Award (Second Place) at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly LEOS), Denver, CO, USA. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Photonics Society, IEEE Electron Devices Society, Optical Society of America (OSA) and International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Electrochemical Society (ECS) and AVS: Science and Technology.

Honglei Guo

Honglei Guo received the B. E. degree in Opto-Electronics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2003, and the M.Sc degree in Optics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2006, respectively. He is currently working towards the PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Jianping Yao in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. He has also been a visiting worker at the Institute for Microstructural Science at National Research Council Canada since February, 2007. His research interests include fiber optic sensors, sensor interrogation systems, micro and nano photonic fabrication, photonic integrated circuits, biophotonics, and microwave photonics.
     Mr. Guo is an author and co-author of 20 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles (15 as the first author), as well as first author of two chapters in “Photonic Sensing: Principles and Applications for Safety and Security Monitoring” from John Wiley & Sons. He has received the 2008 University of Ottawa Doctoral Research Scholarship, the 2009 SPIE Graduate Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering, second place at the 2009 University of Ottawa Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the 2010 Chinese Government Awards for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad, the 2010 CIPI-S (Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovation) Graduate Travel Award, the 2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the 2010 University of Ottawa National Excellence Scholarship, and the 2010 NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Post-Graduate Scholarship.
     “It is my great honor to receive the 2011 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship. I am so grateful for the continuous support from my thesis supervisor, Prof. Jianping Yao, and my research advisors, Dr. George Xiao and Dr. Nezih Mrad.”

Yu-Ting Hsueh

Yu-Ting Hsueh received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2003 and the M.S. degree in Electro-Optical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2005. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Gee-Kung Chang in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. From May 2010 to August 2010, she was a research intern at the Optical Networking and Mobile Communications groups at NEC Laboratories America. Her research interests include radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems, optical-wireless access networks, 100-Gbps and beyond high-speed transmission systems, and wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) passive optical networks (PONs).
     She has authored and co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and international conference proceedings, and regularly serves as a reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking and IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. She is one of the recipients of the 2010 PSC Bor-Uei Chen Memorial Scholarship.

Wangzhe Li

Wangzhe Li was born in China in 1983. He received his BEng. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2004, and the MSc degree in Optoelectronics and Electronic Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007. He is currently working toward the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Jianping Yao.
     His current research area, Microwave Photonics, is an interdisciplinary field that studies the interaction between microwaves and light waves. His current research focus on investigating innovative techniques for generating and processing microwaves and terahertz waves in the optical domain based on fiber Bragg gratings and optoelectronic oscillators for applications such as optical and wireless communication, medical imaging and modern instrumentation.
     Until now, he has authored/co-authored 12 peer-reviewed journal publications and six international conference papers. He is a recipient of the 2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad and the 2010 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Student Fellowship.

Hungyen Lin

Hungyen Lin was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1982. From 2000 to 2003, he was educated at The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, where he obtained the B.Eng. degree (Honors) in Computer Systems Engineering. In 2006, he received the M.S. degree from the University of South Australia (UniSA) on a Schefenacker Vision Systems funded scholarship. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree under Prof Derek Abbott, A/Prof. Christophe Fumeaux and Dr. Bernd Fisher within the Adelaide T-ray Group, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide. His Ph.D. research revolves around the development of a Terahertz near-field imaging system. During his candidature, Mr. Lin has received the 2010 D.R. Stranks Postgraduate Travelling Fellowship, 2009 IEEE South Australia Section Travel Assistance Fund, 2009 The University of Adelaide Research Abroad Scholarship and 2006 Australian Postgraduate Award. Mr. Lin is currently at Tonouchi Laboratory, Institute of Engineering, Osaka University under the 2011 Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Award. He is actively involved in the IEEE Student Branch at The University of Adelaide.

Linghui Rao

Linghui Rao received her B.S. degree in optics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China in 2007 and M.S. degree in optics from University of Central Florida in the USA in 2010. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate supervised by Prof. Shin-Tson Wu in the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida. Her research interests include novel LC materials for advanced LCD applications, and blue phase liquid crystal displays. Since August 2007, she has participated in many novel liquid crystal display development projects contracted by CMI (Taiwan), AUO (Taiwan) and ITRI (Taiwan). From May 2011 to August 2011, she worked as an intern at Apple Computer Inc., USA.
     Ms. Rao has authored and co-authored 17 peer-reviewed journal papers and a couple of conference papers. She has also filed two US patents. Ms. Rao is active in academic society services. She was Chair of Society for Information Display UCF Student Branch from 2009 to 2010. She is also a reviewer for IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, Optics Express, Liquid Crystals and Journal of the Society for Information Display. In recognition to her research work, she has received many honors and awards, including 2010 SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering, Distinguished Paper Award for SID10’ annual meeting, 2011 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Oversea Chinese Students, and 2011 UCF Who’s Who Among Students Award.

Bruno Romeira

Bruno Romeira was born in Faro, Portugal. He received his diploma degree in Physics and Chemistry from University of the Algarve (Faro, Portugal) in 2006. From 2006 to early 2008, he was a junior researcher at the Center of Electronics Optoelectronics and Telecommunications (CEOT), University of the Algarve, working on nanostructures based on manifestations of quantum transport, under the supervision of Dr. José Figueiredo. Since 2008, he is working towards his Ph.D. at the CEOT and Department of Physics, at the University of the Algarve, under the supervision of Dr. José Figueiredo, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, at the research group of Professor Charles Ironside, and with the University of Seville, Spain, at the research group of Professor José Quintana.
     His research has been focused on high-speed optoelectronics and nonlinear dynamics of double barrier quantum well resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) devices. His research activity involves the experimental study and modelling of microwave-photonic oscillator systems derived from RTD negative resistance oscillators, to study their nonlinear dynamic characteristics and performance for optoelectronic applications including synchronization and control of chaotic systems.
     Over the past four years, he has been actively involved in national and international research programmes. As a result of this research work, he has authored and co-authored seven papers in peer-reviewed international journals, two book chapters, three patents, and over more than 17 oral communications in international conference events. He is a student member of the IEEE Photonics Society and serves as a reviewer for the IEEE Photonics Journal. He was the recipient of several grants to attend IEEE sponsored international meetings, including IEEE LEOS Student Travel Grant (2008), Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Travel Grant (2008), and the European Physical Society Conference Grant for Young Scientists (2011). He was also awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal) Travel Grant to visit the research group of Professor Charles Ironside, University of Glasgow, in 2008. In 2009, he received the “Research Incentive Program” award for graduate students by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Bhavin J. Shastri

Bhavin J. Shastri (S’03) received the Honours B.Eng. (with distinction) and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering in 2005 and 2007, respectively, from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he is working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Photonic Systems Group under the supervision of Prof. David V. Plant. He is currently a visiting student research collaborator at Princeton University under the supervision of Prof. Paul R. Prucnal.
     His research interests include high-speed burst-mode clock and data recovery circuits, and optoelectronic circuits. He is the author or co-author of over 23 papers in peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings including two invited conference papers.
     Mr. Shastri is a Student Member of the IEEE Photonics Society, Optical Society of America (OSA), and International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He was the President and Co-Founder of the McGill OSA Student Chapter. He was awarded a 2011 SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics. He is a Lorne Trottier Engineering Graduate Fellow and a winner of a prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) at the 2010 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, the co-recipient of the Silver Leaf Certificate for the Best Student Paper at the 2008 IEEE Microsystems and Nanoelectronics Research Conference, and the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Photonics Society Travel Grant. In addition, he was the winner of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding Student Award, and the 2003 IEEE Canada Life Member Award for the Best Student Paper.

Zhaobing Tian

Zhaobing Tian received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Shandong University in China in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He also received his MSc(Eng) degree from Queen’s University in Canada in 2008. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree at McGill University under the supervision of Prof. David Plant. In 2011, he spent four months on 100 Gb/s transmitters at Reflex Photonics. His research focuses on optical fiber devices and microcavities which can be widely employed in high speed optical communication, high power fiber lasers, sensors, or optical signal processing.
     He has published 18 journal papers, and his first-author papers have been cited more than 140 times. He is an active reviewer for Optics Letters, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Sensors, and Sensors & Actuators. He is the recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Award (Canada) in 2010–2012, a graduate award from Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (Quebec) in 2010–2012, the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2009, and a McGill Engineering Doctoral Awards in 2008–2011.

Yang Yue

Yang Yue received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Optics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Alan E. Willner in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
     Mr. Yue’s current research interests include integrated optical waveguides and devices, photonic crystal fibers and devices, all-optical microwave signal generation, all-optical signal processing, optical performance monitoring, optical orbital angular momentum mode generation and communications, on-chip optical interconnection and optic fiber communications. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, including two invited papers, and two patents.
     Mr. Yue is a student Member of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Photonics Society, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and Optical Society of America (OSA). He serves as a reviewer for Applied Optics, Applied Physics B, IEEE Photonics Journal, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Journal of Optics, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Quantum Electronics, Optical Engineering, Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Semiconductor Science and Technology. He received First-Class Graduate Scholarship of Nankai University in 2006.
     “It is my great honor to receive the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship. I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the generous support from all the members of ‘OE Lab’ in Nankai University and ‘OC Lab’ at USC, especially my ‘GPS’s, Prof. Guiyun Kai from Nankai University and Prof. Alan E. Willner from University of Southern California.”