Li Qian, University of Toronto
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Li Qian is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Photonics Group), at the University of Toronto. Her group currently conduct research in experimental Quantum Key Distribution, nonlinear fibre optics, and fiber optic sensing/metrology.
She received her B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1993, 1996 and 2000, respectively, all from the University of Toronto. She was a Senior Scientist in Corning Incorporated from 2000 to 2003, where she and her colleagues developed the extended L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA), extending the commercial EDFA amplification bandwidth to 1620 nm for the first time. She joined the University of Toronto faculty in 2003, and received the Premier's Research Excellence Award in Ontario in the same year. Qian served as a technical committee member for the OSA's Optical Amplifier and Their Applications Conference, the Nonlinear Photonics conference, and the SPIE's Photonics North conference. In 2006, Qian was elected Senior Member of the IEEE. She currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Photonic Technologies and Applications (2006-2011).