Helmy wins IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award
Professor Amr Helmy received the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award for exceptional contributions to the Photonics Society in the areas of conferences and membership. This award was established to recognize an exceptional individual contribution of service which has had significant benefit to the membership of the IEEE Photonics Society as a whole.
Professor Helmy has served as Vice President Membership for the IEEE Photonics Society from 2008 until 2010. He is currently the CLEO Program Chair (2018-2020), and has served as IEEE-IPC Program Chair (2016-2019). He has served as an associate editor for the society in different roles. Presently he represents the IEEE Photonics Society within the IEEE Quantum Photonics and IEEE Semiconductor Integration (beyond ITRS 2.0) roadmap activities.
Liscidini, Zargham and Zexi win Best “Young Scientist” Paper Award at ESSCIRC 2018
ECE MSc candidate Saba Zargham and Alex Zexi (EngSci 1T6), supervised by Professor Antonio Liscidini, received the Best “Young Scientist” Paper Award at the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) presented in Dresden, Germany on September 3-6, 2018.
The aim of ESSCIRC is to provide an annual European forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances in solid-state devices and circuits. The winning paper is titled “Low-Power QPSK Transmitter Based on an Injection-Locked Power Amplifier”.
“ESSCIRC is a major solid state circuit conference and only two awards are granted in each edition, one for students and one general,” says Professor Liscidini. “This is an excellent example of the opportunities that U of T Engineering students have to make meaningful research contributions to their fields, even in the early stages of their studies.”
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