Wang wins Best Student Paper at QCrypt 2018
PhD candidate Wenyuan (Mike) Wang, supervised by Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo, won the Best Student Paper Award at QCrypt 2018: The 8th international Conference on Quantum Cryptography. Held August 27-31, 2018 in Shanghai China, the annual conference gathers students and researchers working on all aspects of quantum cryptography, representing the year’s best results and supporting the research community in the field.
Wang’s winning paper is titled “Enabling a Scalable High-Rate Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Network: theory and experiment”. Since 2011, QCrypt has featured a prize for the best student submission and this is the second time a student from Professor Lo’s research group has won this award— Feihu Xu (ECE MASc 1T1, PhD 1T5) won in 2014.
Kherani and Lo elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS)
Professors Nazir Kherani and Hoi-Kwong Lo were elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for 2018.
Founded in 1899, the American Physical Society “work[s] to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities.”
The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology.
Professor Kherani is recognized for “distinct contributions to the development of betavoltaic, photovoltaic, and nanoplasmonic devices for long-lived batteries, high efficiency Si heterojunction solar cells, graded gratings for high sensitivity bio/chem-sensing applications, and contributions to understanding the Staebler-Wronski effect.”
Professor Lo is recognized “for numerous fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of quantum cryptography, as well as contributions to the theory of entanglement and quantum communications.”
Professors Amr Helmy and Hoi-Kwong Lo elected as Fellows of The Optical Society (OSA)
Established in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is a world-leader in the science of light; “dedicated to advancing the study of light—optics and photonics—in theory and application, by means of publishing, organizing conferences and exhibitions, partnership with industry, and education.”
Professors Amr Helmy and Hoi-Kwong Lo were elected as Fellow in The Optical Society (OSA) for 2019. The Fellows class in The OSA is reserved for members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. They join a distinguished group of fellow members from around the world.
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