Stewart Aitchison, Vice-Dean, Research

—BSc, Heriot-Watt University —PhD, Heriot-Watt University

stewart.aitchison@utoronto.ca | 416-946-7349 
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J. Stewart Aitchison is the Vice-Dean, Research, for the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and a Professor in the The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Professor Aitchison's research interests cover all-optical switching and signal processing, optoelectronic integration and optical bio-sensors. His research has resulted in seven patents, approximately 214 journal publications which have been cited more than 4,800 times and in more than 250 conference publications. 

From 1988-1990, Professor Aitchison was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff with professor Peter W. E. Smith at Bellcore, Red Bank, New Jersey. He joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow in 1990 and was promoted to a personal Chair as Professor of Photonics in 1999.

From 2004-2007, Professor Aitchison was the Director of the Emerging Communications Technology Institute at the University of Toronto where he worked towards the establishment of open access micro and nano-fabrication facilities. In 1996, he held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Fellowship and carried out research on spatial solutions as a visiting researcher at CREOL, University of Central Florida.

Professor Aitchison was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada in 2010, one of Canada's most prestigious honours. He is also a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics London and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Professor Aitchison has held the Nortel Chair in Emerging Technology since 2001.