Winnie Ye is a Fellow of Optica, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and a Full Professor in Electronics at Carleton University. Her research focuses on silicon photonics and integrated optoelectronic devices for telecommunications, data communications, biophotonics, and renewable energy. She held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Nano-scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors (2009–2021).

Dr. Ye earned her B.Eng. from Carleton and her M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and Carleton. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and Harvard University. She has received major leadership awards from Optica and IEEE and currently serves as Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering and member of Board of Governor of the IEEE Photonics Society.