Aitchison Group


Principal Investigator

J. Stewart Aitchison
J. S. Aitchison received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from The Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1988 to 1990, he was a post-doctoral Member of Technical Staff with Bellcore, NJ. He joined The Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., in 1990 as a Lecturer and was promoted to Professor of Photonics in 1999. In 1996, he was the holder of a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Fellowship to carry out research on spatial solitons at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. Since 2001 he has held the Nortel Chair in Emerging Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Currently he is serving as a professor of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Associate Scientific Director for the Network Center of Excellence, IC-Impact, which funds collaborative research between India and Canada. His research interest includes nonlinear optics, integrated optics and optical biosensors. His research has resulted in more than 250 journal publications. He also holds eight patents, which have led to the formation of four new companies. Dr. Aitchison is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.


Postdocs



Christopher Salmean
Education: 
M.Eng.: Chemical Engineering (1st Class Hons.); University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Research Subject: 
Biosensing, integrated photonics
Contact Information: 
e-mail: c.salmean (at) utoronto.ca




Ph. D. Students

Todd Darcie
Education: 
B.A.Sc.: University of British Columbia
M.A.Sc.: University of Toronto
Research Subject: 
Optical sensing, integrated photonics
Contact Information:
e-mail: todd.darcie (at) mail.utoronto.ca

Can Özcan
Education: 
B.Sc.: Middle East Technical University
M.Sc.: Middle East Technical University
Research Subject: 
Integrated photonics, biosensing
Contact Information:
e-mail: can.ozcan (at) mail.utoronto.ca

Abdullah Bin Shams
Education: 
B.Sc.: Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh
M.Sc.: Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP), Karlsruhe Institue of Technology (KIT), Germany
Research Subject: 
Plasmonics, Integrated photonics, Biosensing
Contact Information:
e-mail: abdullahbinshams (at) gmail.com

Ahmed Shariful Alam
Education: 
B.Sc.: Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh
M.Sc.: Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP), Karlsruhe Institue of Technology (KIT), Germany
Research Subject: 
Silicon Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Communication
Contact Information:
e-mail: as.alam (at) mail.utoronto.ca

Ziyin Wei
Education: 
B.A.Sc.: McGill University
M.A.Sc.: University of Toronto
Research Subject: 
Lab-on-chip, biosensing
Contact Information:
e-mail: ziyin.wei (at) mail.utoronto.ca
M. A. Sc. Students
Ruiqian Liu (Rachel)
Education: 
B.Eng.: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Research Subject: 
Lab-on-chip, biosensing
Contact Information:
e-mail: ruiqian.liu (at) utoronto.ca

Ose Ebewele
Education: 
B.Eng: University of Benin Nigeria (Chemical Engineering)
M.Eng: University of Benin Nigeria (Chemical Engineering)
M.Eng: University of Toronto (Chemical Engineering)
Research Subject: 
Application of Photonics for Micro-organism growth (Algae)
Contact Information:
e-mail: eboseremen.ebewele (at) mail.utoronto.ca