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.
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Joyce Poon is an honorary professor at the Technische Universitat Berlin.
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Joyce Poon is a Fellow of Optica, and has been serving as a Director-At-Large for the society since January 2021.
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Joyce Poon stayed at Caltech to carry out her PhD under the supervision of Professor Amnon Yariv.
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Joyce Poon's thesis studied ways to control slow light in optical waveguides and was awarded the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize.
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In 2007, Poon moved back to the University of Toronto, where she is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Joyce Poon became an honorary professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Technische Universitat Berlin in 2018.
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Joyce Poon is principal investigator at the Neurotech Alliance and the Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application at the University of Toronto.
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Joyce 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".
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Joyce Poon 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.
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Joyce Poon is a two-time recipient of the IBM Faculty Award, and received the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Award and a University Faculty Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.