Joyce Poon
Born
Hong Kong
Alma materUniversity of Toronto, California Institute of Technology
AwardsOntario Ministry of Research and Innovation Award, IBM Faculty Award, University of Toronto Early Career Distinction Award, MIT Technology Review's Top 35 IT Innovator under 35, Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize
Scientific career
FieldsPhotonics, Neurotechnology, Nanotechnology, Silicon photonics
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
ThesisActive and Passive Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides (2007)
Doctoral advisorsAmnon Yariv
Websitehttps://www.photon.utoronto.ca/

Joyce Poon is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, where her research focuses on developing new optical devices for applications in neurotechnology.[1] She is also an honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin. She is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society), and has been serving as a Director-At-Large for the society since January 2021.[2]

Early life and education

Poon was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Toronto.[3] She obtained a B.A.Sc. in engineering from the University of Toronto in 2002 and an M.S. in Electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2007.[4] She stayed at Caltech to carry out her PhD under the supervision of Professor Amnon Yariv.[5] Her thesis studied ways to control slow light in optical waveguides and was awarded the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize.[6] During her graduate studies, she founded Caltech's Student Chapter of Optica.[3]

Research and career

In 2007, Poon moved back to the University of Toronto, where she is now Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her early research continued investigating waveguide resonators.[7][8] While at Toronto, she built a research team focused on studying silicon-based integrated photonic technologies for applications in telecommunications.[9][10] Her research group also focuses on neurotechnology, and investigate how integrated photonic devices can be used to develop new brain imaging techniques.[11][12]

Poon became an honorary professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin in 2018.[13] She is also principal investigator at the Neurotech Alliance and the Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA) at the University of Toronto.[14]

Awards and honours

Poon was elected as a Fellow of Optica in 2018 "for outstanding contributions to the research and development of silicon-based integrated optics, including microresonators, electro-optic modulators and integrated hybrid photonics".[15] She is a Director-At-Large at Optica.[2]

She was awarded the University of Toronto's McCharles' Prize for Early Career Distinction in 2013, and named one of the world's Top 35 IT innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2012.[16][17][18] Poon is a two-time recipient of the IBM Faculty Award (2010, 2011), and also received the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Award (2009) and a University Faculty Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (2008).[19]

References

  1. ^ "Director". www.mpi-halle.mpg.de. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  2. ^ a b "The Optical Society Elects Lipson 2021 Vice President". www.photonics.com. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  3. ^ a b "Director At Large - Joyce Poon Profile". The Optical Society.
  4. ^ "Poon J | Electrical & Computer Engineering". www.ece.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  5. ^ Poon, Joyce Kai See (2007). Active and Passive Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides (phd thesis). California Institute of Technology.
  6. ^ "Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize Recipients" (PDF). Caltech Graduate Office. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  7. ^ Sacher, Wesley D.; Poon, Joyce (2008). "Dynamics of microring resonator modulators". Optics Express. 16 (20): 15741–15753. Bibcode:2008OExpr..1615741S. doi:10.1364/OE.16.015741. PMID 18825213.
  8. ^ Sacher, Wesley D.; Poon, Joyce K. S. (2009-09-01). "Characteristics of Microring Resonators With Waveguide-Resonator Coupling Modulation". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 27 (17): 3800–3811. Bibcode:2009JLwT...27.3800S. doi:10.1109/JLT.2009.2016852. S2CID 45736062.
  9. ^ Caspers, J. N.; MacKay, A. W.; Poon, J. K. S. (March 2012). "Short efficient non-adiabatic spot-size converters by mode interference in silicon-on-insulator waveguides". Ofc/Nfoec: 1–3.
  10. ^ Sacher, Wesley D.; Huang, Ying; Lo, Guo-Qiang; Poon, Joyce K. S. (2015-02-15). "Multilayer Silicon Nitride-on-Silicon Integrated Photonic Platforms and Devices". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 33 (4): 901–910. Bibcode:2015JLwT...33..901S. doi:10.1109/JLT.2015.2392784. S2CID 29411701.
  11. ^ Sacher, Wesley D.; Luo, Xianshu; Yang, Yisu; Chen, Fu-Der; Lordello, Thomas; Mak, Jason C. C.; Liu, Xinyu; Hu, Ting; Xue, Tianyuan; Guo-Qiang Lo, Patrick; Roukes, Michael L.; Poon, Joyce K. S. (2019). "Visible-light silicon nitride waveguide devices and implantable neurophotonic probes on thinned 200 mm silicon wafers". Optics Express. 27 (26): 37400–37418. Bibcode:2019OExpr..2737400S. doi:10.1364/OE.27.037400. PMC 7046040. PMID 31878521.
  12. ^ Moreaux, Laurent C.; Yatsenko, Dimitri; Sacher, Wesley D.; Choi, Jaebin; Lee, Changhyuk; Kubat, Nicole J.; Cotton, R. James; Boyden, Edward S.; Lin, Michael Z.; Tian, Lin; Tolias, Andreas S. (2020-10-14). "Integrated Neurophotonics: Toward Dense Volumetric Interrogation of Brain Circuit Activity—at Depth and in Real Time". Neuron. 108 (1): 66–92. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.043. ISSN 0896-6273. PMC 8061790. PMID 33058767. S2CID 222350075.
  13. ^ "Stabsstelle Kommunikation, Events und Alumni: Medieninformation Nr. 227/2018". www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  14. ^ "Joyce Poon". CRANIA. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  15. ^ "2018 OSA Fellows". The Optical Society. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  16. ^ "ANNUM 2013". Issuu. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  17. ^ "Joyce Poon, 35 Innovators Under 35 winner, 2012". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  18. ^ "Toronto researchers among MIT's 35 top innovators". thestar.com. 2012-08-21. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  19. ^ "TR35 - Joyce Poon's schedule for EmTech MIT". emtechmit2012.sched.com. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
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