Professional Affiliations

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval

Canada Research Chair on Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud (Tier 1)

NSERC/Huawei Industrial Research Chair in Fibre Optic Communications Systems (FOCUS Systems)

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)

Research axes

Photonic systems and microsystems

Optical Communications

Ongoing projects

Sentinel sensor networks for real-time infrastructure and ecosystem monitoring

5G virtualization using a passive optical network infrastructure enabled by silicon photonics devices

Communication systems in support of cloud computing

Experimental research on high capacity communication for data centers

Integrated optoelectronic devices and compensation algorithms

NSERC CREATE Training Program for Network Softwareization

Optimization of the optical/wireless interface in short-haul access networks

Research teams

Visit Professor Rusch’s affiliation lab: Leslie Rusch – LCO (ulaval.ca)