Rim Cherif

About the Candidate

SUMMARY

• Thorough experience in characterizing, testing, analyzing photonic components

• Deep understanding of electro-optical devices such as laser, LEDs, photodiodes, SOA,

fiber optics, specialty fiber, couplers, multiplexers

• Experience in setting-up optics & photonics laboratory

• Proficiency in use of softwares: Zemax, Comsol Multiphysics, Optisystem, Matlab,

Python, Labview)

• Creative and well-organized problem solver

EXPERIENCE

Algonquin college, School of advanced technology, Ottawa January 2021 to April 2021

Part-time Professor, Applied Science & Environmental Technology department

– Design of optical components and systems

– Optoelectronic devices

– Manufacturing of photonic components

University of Ottawa, Advanced research complex, January 2019-September 2020

Ottawa, Canada

Visiting Researcher, Max Planck – uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics

– Research topics: slow-light generation in optical router, specialty fibers, nonlinear optics

Higher Institute for Technology January 2015 to December 2018

Studies in Communications of Tunis, Tunisia

Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunication

– Role includes overseeing design and prototyping optoelectronic components, test

photonic devices & optical links and analyze data (OTDR, OSA, power meter…)

– FTTH deployment: OLT, optical splitter, fiber optics cables, ONU

– Set-up of Optics and photonics Laboratory

Tunis-El-Manar University, Tunisia September 2010 to January 2015

Assistant Professor, Faculty of sciences of Tunis, Department of physics

– Characterization of active and passive optical components

– Diode lasers characterization, testing

– Optical fiber fabrication by stack and draw technique

EDUCATION

PhD Information and Communication Technologies April 2009

Engineering school of communications, University of Carthage, Tunisia

Dissertation: Investigation of nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibers

MSc Telecommunication (Utmost distinction) July 2005

Engineering school of communications, University of Carthage, Tunisia

Thesis: Coupling effects between standard optical fibers and specialty fibers

Engineering degree Telecommunications and Networks, Rank 4/80 February 2004

National institute of applied sciences and technology, University of Carthage,

Tunisia

Final year project: Optical properties of single mode fibers