Honglei Guo and Wangzhe Li receive an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship
August 23, 2011
The IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Program was created to honor outstanding Photonics Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Photonics Society field of interest. PhD students, Honglei Guo and Wangzhe Li, were both selected by the IEEE Photonics Society to receive an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship for 2011.
Ten fellowships are selected around the world each year. The award ceremony will be made during the Awards Banquet at the 2011 IEEE Photonics Conference at Arlington, Virginia, USA on Monday 10th October, 2011.
Honglei Guo is a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, under the supervision of Professor Jianping Yao. He started his PhD in the University of Ottawa in 2006 where he is pursuing his studies in fiber sensors and microfluidics. Honglei was a recipient of a 2009 SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Scholarship. He was awarded the Second Prize ($7,500) at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition organized by Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, in 2009, to recognize his contributions to the potential commercialization of the miniaturized fibre-optic sensor developed by him. In 2010, he was selected by NSERC to receive a prestigious NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.
Wangzhe Li is a PhD student in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, under the supervision of Professor Jianping Yao.. He started his PhD in the University of Ottawa in November 2007 where he is researching solutions to generate Terahertz waves based on photonics technologies for applications such as broadband wireless communications and Terahertz imaging. Wangzhe was a winner (the First Prize, $10,000) at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation competition organized by the Faculty of Engineering in 2010, where he presented his project, TeraCare, for a revolutionary breast cancer screening scanner using Terahertz waves. In April 2011, he was selected by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) to receive an IEEE MTT-S Graduate Student Fellowship.
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