Bo Cui | Electrical and Computer Engineering

News:

Dr. Bo Cui won the 2014 Engineering Research Excellence Award (three winners from 295 faculty members within Waterloo's Faculty of Engineering).
WIN Nano-Fellowship 2014. Congratulations to Celal Con, Ripon Dey and Xiangcheng Sun for winning this prestigious Fellowship ($10000).
EIPBN 2014. Seven of us went to the conference to give 9 presentations (among which 5 are oral), more than any other groups attending the conference. EIPBN is the most important and largest conferecne in the micro-nanofabrication field taken place in North America.
CSC Award 2013. Congratulations to Jian Zhang for winning the National Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad ($6600).
WIN Nano-Fellowship 2013. Congratulations to Xiangcheng Sun and Jian Zhang for winning this competitive fellowship ($10000).
MNE 2013. We submitted 5 abstracts, and 4 were accepted for presentation. MNE is the most important and largest conferecne in the micro-nanofabrication field taken place in Europe.
May 2013, we filed a US provisional patent on batch fabrication of high aspect ratio AFM tips.
EIPBN 2013. We presented 9 (more than any other group attending the conference) research projects at the conference, which is the most important and largest conferecne in the micro-nanofabrication field taken place in North America.
Dobbin Scholarship 2012. Dr. Bo Cui won the Scholarship ($7000) by the Ireland Canada University Foundation, to support his one-month visit to Trinity College Dublin (JMD Coey's group) in March 2012. Photo
Feb 10, 2010. Metallic nanostructures formed in nanoseconds.
Mar 17, 2008. Surface enhanced Raman scattering on long-range ordered noble-metal nanostructured arrays.

Opening:

We currently have openings for the joint Waterloo-Suzhou (FUNSOM) 2+2 PhD program. In brief, you will spend the first two years at Waterloo, with a scholarship the same as regular PhD student; and the second two years at Suzhou University (under Professor 孙宝全's supervision). After four years you will receive PhD degree from University of Waterloo (no degree from Suzhou University). You should be able to speak some Chinese to make your life easier in China. The research project is in the area of nanostructured hybrid (organic + inorganic) solar cell.

In addition, if you are interested in our research program, and you have your own funding, please contact me. Past experience in micro-nanofabrication and thin film technology, or a solid background in physics or electrical engineering (semiconductor, photonics...), is highly desirable.

If you apply for PhD program, please note you must write and pass the qualification exam during the first year. Therefore, your application will be considered only if I am convinced that you have a solid background in math and physics.

For Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada, you may consider applying for NSERC (funds both graduate students and postdocs) or OGS funding. With NSERC or OGS, your salary will be $30000 per year ($20000 from NSERC/OGS).

For Chinese citizen, you may consider applying for CSC (China Scholarship Council) support, which funds both PhD students (including short term 1-2 year visit) and postdoc.

For undergraduate student, you may consider applying for NSERC USRA. Your salary will be $6100-7000 per term. The university requires a minimum cumulative average of 80%. Co-op students in my group publish regularly first-author journal papers or go to international conferences.

About ECE and University of Waterloo:

1. The ECE department ranked as 47 in 2012 by Times Higher Education-Q.S. world university rankings. LINK

2. For 19 years in a row, Waterloo has been named Canada’s most innovative university in the Maclean’s annual university rankings. This year Waterloo also topped the reputational categories of Most Innovative, most likely to produce the Leaders of Tomorrow, and Best Overall. LINK

3. You may also want to read the recent article in New York Times. LINK