![[Translate to English:] Leslie Rusch](/fileadmin/user_upload/portraits/leslie-rusch.png "[Translate to English:] Leslie Rusch")
Prof. Leslie Rusch, holder of the Canada research chair (CRC Tier 1) in Communication systems enabling the cloud, aims to develop optical communications systems that increase network capacity while reducing costs.
Prof. Sophie LaRochelle, holder of the Canada research chair (CRC Tier 1) in Advanced photonics technologies for communications, aims to optimize fibre optic communication networks by using the multiple dimensions of light waves to transmit information.
![[Translate to English:] Wei Shi](/fileadmin/user_upload/portraits/wei-shi.png "[Translate to English:] Wei Shi")
Prof. Wei Shi, holder of the Canada research chair (CRC Tier 2) in Silicon Photonics, is exploring nanophotonic devices and their large-scale integration on a microchip.