Intense laser-matter interactions, Nonlinear optics, Short-pulse, intense laser systems, Photonics, Optical Systems

1991~1992 Researcher, Laser Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1992~1997 Technical Staff, Princeton University's Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and Opto-electronic Materials
1997~present Professor, University of Waterloo
2013 President of Optica (formerly OSA)
2020 Member, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
2020 Fellow, The Royal Society (FRS)

1998 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1999 Premier’s Research Excellence Award
2000 Cottrell Scholars Award from Research Corporation
2008 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”