Supervised Student Awards
2024
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (national award)
W. Li
Corning Women in Optical Communications Travel Grant (industrial award)
W. Li
2023
Lumentum Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Scholarship (industrial award)
W. Li
The Marconi Society’s 2023 Paul Baran Young Scholar (international award)
Z. Wei
Advanced Photonic Congress Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom) Best Student Paper Presentation (international award)
LinkM. Khalil, E. Berikaa, Md S. Alam, K. A. Shahriar, Y. Xie, J. Liu, Z. Lu, P. J. Poole, J. Weber, D. V. Plant, and L. R. Chen
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (national award)
Z. Wei
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
Z. Wei
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
E. Berikaa
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
W. Li
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
E. Berikaa
2022
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
Z. Wei
2022 IEEE Photonics Conference Best Student Paper Finalists (international award)
LinkE. Berikaa, M. S. Alam, and D. V. Plant
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) Ph.D. Scholarships (provincial award)
W. Li, Z. Wei, and E. Berikaa
2020
Best Student Paper 1st Prize at 2020 OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (international award)
Md S. Alam
2019
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
E. ElFiky
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
Md G. Saber
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
M. Jacques
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
Md G. Saber
2018
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
T. H. Minh
OSA nanophotonics technical group 20x20 talks winning presentation (international award)
Y. D'Mello (STEM Group)
LinkNSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Ph.D Program (national award)
M. Jacques
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
A. Samani
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
Md G. Saber
2017
Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award(international award)
A. Kumar
Si-EPIC Scholarship(national award)
M. Jacques
FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship (provincial award)
M. Jacques
Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing 2017 from Elsevier (international award)
N. Abadía
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Ph.D Program (national award)
Y. D'Mello
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Ph.D Program (national award)
A. Samani
Graduate Student Excellence Award (university award)
Y. D'Mello
Dr. César Milstein Scholarship of the Argentinian Ministry of Science and Technology (national award)
N. Abadía
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
D. Patel
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (international award)
Md G. Saber
2016
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (national award)
M. Qiu
CMC TexPo Huawei Industrial Collaboration Award 2016 (national award)
T. Hoang and M. Sowailem
Graduate Excellence Award 2016-2017 (university award)
Y. D'Mello
Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship 2016-2017 (university award)
Y. D'Mello
OSA Outstanding Reviewer (international award)
N. A. Calvo
OSA Outstanding Reviewer (international award)
Q. Zhuge
R. H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship from McGill (university award)
M. Ghulam Saber
Merit Scholarship Program for Foreign Students- Doctoral Research Scholarships (V1) from FRQNT (provincial award)
M. Ghulam Saber
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program (national award)
M. Jacques
Si-EPIC Scholar 2016-2018, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (national award)
Y. D'Mello
McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (university award)
Y. D'Mello
McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (university award)
M. Jacques
2015
Si-EPIC Scholar 2015-2017, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (national award)
Y. D'Mello
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program (national award)
Y. D'Mello
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
M. Chagnon
FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship (provincial award)
A. Samani
Si-EPIC Scholarship(national award)
A. Samani
Graduate Student Excellence Award (university award)
A. Samani
McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (university award)
A. Samani
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
M. Qiu
2014
Eric L. Adler Fellowship, McGill University
W. Wang
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
M. Morsy-Osman
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (national award)
Q. Zhuge
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
M. Chagnon
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
M. T. Hoang
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
M. Morsy-Osman
2013
IEEE Photonics Society Best Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
Q. Zhuge
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Si-EPIC Scholar, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (national award)
W. Shi
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
Q. Zhuge
Nominated for the Prix d'excellence de l'Association des doyens des études supérieures au Québec (l'ADESAQ)
Z. Tian
2012
Si-EPIC Scholar 2012-2014, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (national award)
D. Patel
Si-EPIC Scholar 2012-2016, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (national award)
Q. Zhong
First prize of the best student paper of Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (international award)
Q. Zhuge, X. Xu, M. Mousa-Pasandi, M. Morsy-Osman, Z. A. El-Sahn, M. Chagnon, and D. V. Plant
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
Z. Tian
D.W. Ambridge Prize
B. J. Shastri
Nominated for the Prix d'excellence de l'Association des doyens des études supérieures au Québec (l'ADESAQ)
B. J. Shastri
Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition Finalist,Optical Fiber Communications Conference, for a paper entitled “Linewidth-Tolerant Low Complexity Pilot-Aided Carrier Phase Recovery for M-QAM using Superscalar Parallelization,” (international award)
Q. Zhuge, M. E. Pasandi, X. Xu, B. Châtelain, Z. Pan, M. Osman and D. V. Plant
2011
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad
Y. Zang
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
B. J. Shastri
IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (international award)
Z. Tian
IEEE Photonics Society Student Travel Award
Z. Tian
SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (international award)
B. J. Shastri
Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition semi-finalist,Optical Fiber Communications Conference, for a paper entitled “Optimized Pulse Shaping for Intra-channel Nonlinearities Mitigation in a 10 Gbaud Dual-Polarization 16-QAM System,” (international award)
B. Châtelain, C. Laperle, D. Krause, K. Roberts, M. Chagnon, X. Xu, A. Borowiec, F. Gagnon, J.C. Cartledge, and D.V. Plant
2010
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University
B. J. Shastri
IEEE MWSCAS Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 53rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2010 (second place; international award
B. J. Shastri
2009
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad
Z. Tian
IEEE Microwave Prize
J.D. Schwartz
First Prize, Centre pour les systèmes et technologies avancées en communications (SYTACom) Student Research Competition(provincial award)
B. J. Shastri
2008
Silver Leaf Certificate for the Best Student Paper at the IEEE Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Research Conference(national award)
B.J. Shastri, M. Zeng, and N. Zicha
Award of Excellence, The Board of the Academy of Great Montrealers
J.D. Schwartz
D.W. Ambridge Prize, McGill University
J.D. Schwartz
Governor General’s Gold Medal, McGill University
J.D. Schwartz
Best Student Poster Award at the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovation (CIPI) Annual Meeting (national award)
B.J. Shastri, M. Zeng, and N. Zicha
2007
IEEE Photonics Society (formerly LEOS) Student Travel Award
B.J. Shastri
Nominated for the NSERC Andre Hamer Postgraduate Prize (national award)
B.J. Shastri
Nominated for Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 50th Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, for a paper entitled “Burst-mode clock and data recovery with FEC and fast phase acquisition for burst-error correction in GPONs,” by B.J. Shastri, J. Faucher, M. Zeng, and D.V. Plant (international award)
B.J. Shastri, J. Faucher, and M. Zeng
Best Student Poster Award, Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovation Annual General Meeting, for a poster entitled “622/1244 Mb/s burst-mode clock and data recovery for gigabit passive optical network uplink,” by B.J. Shastri, J. Faucher, M. Zeng and D.V. Plant (national award)
B.J. Shastri, J. Faucher, and M. Zeng
2006
Best Student Paper Award, 12th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, for a paper entitled “A fully-electronic time-stretch system,” by J.D. Schwartz, J. Azaña and D.V. Plant (international award)
J.D. Schwartz
Second Prize, Best Poster Competition, Agile All-Photonic Networks Annual Research Review, for poster entitled “Reprogrammable Optical Phase Array (ROPA) device used as a 1x 6 space switch” by M. Mony and D.V. Plant (national award)
M. Mony