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First ‘Inventor of the Year’

Xiaoyi BaoDr. Xiaoyi Bao is the first recipient of the University of Ottawa Inventor of the Year Award.

Bao is a professor in the Department of Physics and holds a Canada Research Chair in Fibre Optics and Photonics.

The award was created by the University’s Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise department (TTBE) and sponsored by Deloitte & Touche and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt.

Dr. Bao was presented with an Inuit carving of an eagle and $5,000 during the TTBE/OCRI Research Day on February 23.

Related Links:

Dr. Xiaoyi Bao's biography

Canada Research Chair in Fibre Optics and Photonics

University of Ottawa welcomes two new researchers to its Centre for Research on Photonics (News released issued November 12, 2002)

Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise