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TEDxToronto
A Year to Remember Professor Joyce Poon was announced as the 2013 recipient of the University of Toronto’s McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction.
She is the third recipient of the McCharles Prize, which was established in 1907 by Aeneas McCharles and reestablished in 2007 as an award for exceptional performance and distinction in early career research on the part of a pre-tenure member of the Faculty. Professor Poon is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Integrated Photonic Devices. Already considered a thought-leader in her field, her research focuses on the creation and exploration of novel photonic devices. Professor Poon received an Early Researcher Award in 2009. She garnered IBM Faculty Awards in 2010 and 2011 — the only Canadian to receive this prestigious award in either year. In 2012 Professor Poon was named one of the world’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review.
ECE professors Brendan Frey and Steve Mann were among 12 expert speakers selected to present at TEDxToronto 2013. Canada’s largest TED event, TEDxToronto is an independently organized program that builds on the central TED concept of sharing ‘ideas worth spreading’. Photo credits: Photo of Brendan Frey by Lana Khakham and Sara Stankiewicz - Parasol. Photo of Steve Mann and TEDxToronto by Andrew Williamson.
Publications by ECE Faculty, 2003 to 2012 700
ECE is the top department
600
in the Faculty of Applied
500
Science & Engineering for all
400
commercialization indicators
300
in the past five years. ECE typically accounts for about
Publications
200
50 per cent of Faculty start-up
100
companies and invention
Researchers
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disclosures. www.ece.utoronto.ca | ANNUM 2013 | 15