Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur
McGill University
About the Speaker
Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, USA, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. From 1999 to 2000, she worked at Teradyne Inc. in Boston, as an Applications Engineer in the mass storage business unit. She then joined Texas Instruments Inc. in 2000 in Dallas and spent two years working in the fiber optic business unit as a test and design engineer. She was a summer intern in the optical Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2016. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University in 2008 after a year as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow (2007–2008) and is currently an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Photonics Interconnect. From 2009 to 2016, she was an associate editor for the IEEE Photonics Technology Letter. She was an elected member on the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governance from 2016 to 2018. She was the general co-chair of Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) in 2017, 2019, and 2020. She holds seven granted U.S. patents and co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 115 papers in conference proceedings. She published four book chapters and gave over 15 presentations as an invited speaker at international conferences. Her research interests include photonic integrated circuits and interconnects, optics for computation, and co-design of electrical and photonic integrated circuits. She is the 2018 recipient of McGill Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher.
